Jury Pool Profile

Parmer County, Texas

Republican +70 (2024)

Population: 9,752
Median household income: $68,164
Unemployment: 2.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 6,536 67.0%
Black or African American alone 35 0.4%
Asian alone 19 0.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 85 0.9%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 597 6.1%
Two or more races 2,480 25.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,446 66.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 36.2

Under 18 2,757 28.3%
18–24 825 8.5%
25–44 2,629 27.0%
45–64 2,078 21.3%
65 and over 1,463 15.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 2.8%; -1.43 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.4B; 0.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,273
Establishments: 353

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Natural resources & mining 1,547 23.8%
Education & health services 790 12.2%
Trade, transportation & utilities 547 8.4%
Professional & business services 180 2.8%
Public administration 146 2.2%
Leisure & hospitality 127 2.0%
Other services 124 1.9%
Financial activities 66 1.0%
Unclassified 8 0.1%
Information 7 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 68.4%
Median gross rent: $1,015
Owner-occupied: 2,178
Renter-occupied: 1,005

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,504 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

44.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,930 54.6%
German 49 0.5%
Other 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 3,183
Family households: 2,573; 80.8% of households
Married w/ children: 1,996
Single-mother households: 154
Veterans: 293; 4.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.5% overall adherence rate

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

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 77.3%
With a disability: 12.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 16.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 2; 28.59 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023