Parmer County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,961 30.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,487 66.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 28 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 230 2.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 25 0.3%

• Under 18 2,691 27.7%
• 18–24 862 8.9%
• 25–44 2,539 26.1%
• 45–64 2,117 21.8%
• 65 and over 1,522 15.6%

Median household income

$68,598

90% interval $61,123–$76,073

−$11,125 vs TX · 98th of 254

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 9.4%–16.0%

−0.7 pp vs TX · 178th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−1.4 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.4B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,802

Establishments

342

• Education & health services 777 12.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 533 8.2%
• Professional & business services 184 2.8%
• Public administration 144 2.2%
• Other services 124 1.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 119 1.8%
• Financial activities 69 1.1%

The sectors listed cover 30.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.1%

+9.5 pp vs TX · 151st of 254

Median gross rent

$1,081

−$322 vs TX · 66th of 254

Owner-occupied

2,329

Renter-occupied

902

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 23% 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 (Financial activities, $91,163/yr) pays 4.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,850/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 2,123 84.8%
• Democratic 368 14.7%
• Other / third-party 13 0.5%

• Spanish 4,895 54.3%
• German or other West Germanic 46 0.5%

Households

3,231

Family households

2,642

81.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

796

30.1% of families

Single-mother families

142

5.4% of families

Veterans

351

5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 3,816 38.7%
• Catholic 1,150 11.7%
• Mainline Protestant 704 7.1%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 100 1.0%

Health insured

75.9%

±4.6 pp

Uninsured

24.1%

±4.6 pp

21st of 254

With a disability

12.1%

±2.6 pp

212th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

16.9%

±3.2 pp

−16.9 pp vs TX · 176th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

27.2%

90% interval 24.9%–29.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

287th 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

Farwell, Muleshoe

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

1

14.2 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

1