Palo Pinto County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 21,389 73.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,034 20.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 677 2.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 207 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 857 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 38 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 93 0.3%

• Under 18 6,809 23.2%
• 18–24 2,304 7.9%
• 25–44 6,634 22.6%
• 45–64 7,540 25.7%
• 65 and over 6,008 20.5%

Median household income

$63,004

90% interval $56,674–$69,334

−$16,719 vs TX · 148th of 254

Below poverty line

16.0%

90% interval 13.0%–19.0%

+2.6 pp vs TX · 92nd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,056

Establishments

736

• Education & health services 1,901 22.2%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,888 22.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,644 19.2%
• Manufacturing 1,175 13.8%
• Professional & business services 430 5.0%
• Construction 374 4.4%
• Public administration 273 3.2%
• Financial activities 263 3.1%
• Other services 221 2.6%
• Natural resources & mining 101 1.2%
• Information 16 0.2%
• Unclassified 1 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.0%

+8.4 pp vs TX · 166th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,093

−$310 vs TX · 64th of 254

Owner-occupied

7,978

Renter-occupied

3,256

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 64% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $74,127/yr) pays 3.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,011/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 11,093 83.2%
• Democratic 2,143 16.1%
• Other / third-party 97 0.7%

• Spanish 2,985 10.8%
• Tagalog 26 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 10 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2 0.0%

Households

11,234

Family households

7,811

69.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,666

21.3% of families

Single-mother families

755

9.7% of families

Veterans

1,827

8.1% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 11,523 40.6%
• Catholic 2,345 8.3%
• Mainline Protestant 940 3.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 623 2.2%
• Black Protestant 362 1.3%

Health insured

81.8%

±2 pp

Uninsured

18.2%

±2 pp

92nd of 254

With a disability

17.4%

±1.5 pp

93rd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

17.8%

±2.1 pp

−16.0 pp vs TX · 163rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.5%

90% interval 19.6%–23.4% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

29th 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

Palo Pinto

Traffic fatalities

9

40.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9