Jury Pool Profile

Orange County, Texas

Republican +67 (2024)

Population: 84,993
Median household income: $73,372
Unemployment: 4.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 68,653 80.8%
Black or African American alone 7,347 8.6%
Asian alone 662 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 147 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 67 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,490 1.8%
Two or more races 6,627 7.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,763 9.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.9

Under 18 21,572 25.4%
18–24 6,806 8.0%
25–44 22,166 26.1%
45–64 20,926 24.6%
65 and over 13,523 15.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.6%; +0.41 pp vs. state
County GDP: $5.9B; 0.21% of state
Avg. annual pay: $64,481
Establishments: 1,478

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 5,138 21.1%
Manufacturing 4,847 19.9%
Education & health services 4,394 18.0%
Leisure & hospitality 2,799 11.5%
Construction 2,486 10.2%
Professional & business services 1,908 7.8%
Public administration 822 3.4%
Financial activities 790 3.2%
Other services 765 3.1%
Natural resources & mining 65 0.3%
Information 22 0.1%
Unclassified 5 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 75.0%
Median gross rent: $1,018
Owner-occupied: 23,892
Renter-occupied: 7,955

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 36,328 votes cast

Republican 30,191 83.1%
Democratic 5,945 16.4%
Other / third-party 192 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,351 5.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 551 0.7%
Other Indo-European 285 0.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 269 0.3%
Slavic languages 224 0.3%
Tagalog 137 0.2%
Vietnamese 93 0.1%
German 49 0.1%
Other 36 0.0%
Chinese 26 0.0%
Arabic 16 0.0%
Korean 12 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 31,847
Family households: 22,625; 71.0% of households
Married w/ children: 16,963
Single-mother households: 2,484
Veterans: 4,169; 6.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 31,731 37.4%
Catholic 10,759 12.7%
Mainline Protestant 2,557 3.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,428 2.9%
Black Protestant 2,112 2.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.9%
With a disability: 16.8%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 128th District Court
Judges: 1 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual — each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)
Court seats: Orange

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 18; 28.38 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023