Panola County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 16,166 71.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,359 10.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,543 11.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 121 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,422 6.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 106 0.5%

• Under 18 5,244 23.1%
• 18–24 1,948 8.6%
• 25–44 5,170 22.7%
• 45–64 5,751 25.3%
• 65 and over 4,613 20.3%

Median household income

$68,559

90% interval $62,938–$74,180

−$11,164 vs TX · 99th of 254

Below poverty line

13.3%

90% interval 10.1%–16.5%

−0.1 pp vs TX · 171st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.1%

+0.75 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,423

Establishments

545

• Education & health services 1,626 21.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,348 17.5%
• Construction 1,170 15.2%
• Manufacturing 917 11.9%
• Natural resources & mining 871 11.3%
• Professional & business services 552 7.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 405 5.3%
• Public administration 216 2.8%
• Unclassified 1 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 92.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

79.9%

+17.3 pp vs TX · 53rd of 254

Median gross rent

$834

−$569 vs TX · 187th of 254

Owner-occupied

7,111

Renter-occupied

1,787

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 54% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $88,485/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,534/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 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 9,500 83.1%
• Democratic 1,905 16.7%
• Other / third-party 32 0.3%

• Spanish 1,906 8.9%
• Vietnamese 78 0.4%
• Tagalog 20 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 9 0.0%
• Chinese 4 0.0%

Households

8,898

Family households

6,149

69.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,950

31.7% of families

Single-mother families

581

9.4% of families

Veterans

1,722

9.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,299 41.3%
• Catholic 1,474 6.6%
• Mainline Protestant 1,344 6.0%
• Black Protestant 1,194 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 543 2.4%

Health insured

83.0%

±2.7 pp

Uninsured

17.0%

±2.7 pp

120th of 254

With a disability

16.8%

±2.1 pp

101st of 254

Bachelor's or higher

17.0%

±2.6 pp

−16.8 pp vs TX · 173rd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.7%

90% interval 16.2%–19.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

123rd 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

Carthage, Center

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

40.04 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

6