Jury Pool Profile
Polk County, Texas
Republican +59 (2024)
- Population
- 51,780
- Median household income
- $59,066
- Unemployment
- 4.9%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 39,920 77.1%
- Black or African American alone 4,073 7.9%
- Asian alone 317 0.6%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 838 1.6%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 10 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,010 2.0%
- Two or more races 5,612 10.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,799 15.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 43.9
- Under 18 10,540 20.4%
- 18–24 3,835 7.4%
- 25–44 12,133 23.4%
- 45–64 15,475 29.9%
- 65 and over 9,797 18.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.9%
- +0.69 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.9B
- 0.07% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $50,852
- Establishments
- 958
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,701 21.1%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 2,349 18.3%
- Manufacturing 1,588 12.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,555 12.1%
- Public administration 1,265 9.9%
- Professional & business services 942 7.3%
- Financial activities 930 7.3%
- Construction 679 5.3%
- Other services 253 2.0%
- Natural resources & mining 208 1.6%
- Information 141 1.1%
- Unclassified 17 0.1%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 77.5%
- Median gross rent
- $1,009
- Owner-occupied
- 14,395
- Renter-occupied
- 4,180
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 24,285 votes cast
- Republican 19,216 79.1%
- Democratic 4,910 20.2%
- Other / third-party 159 0.7%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
87.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 5,601 11.4%
- Other 198 0.4%
- Other Asian/Pacific 109 0.2%
- Arabic 91 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 58 0.1%
- Korean 55 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 31 0.1%
- Vietnamese 30 0.1%
- Tagalog 30 0.1%
- German 27 0.1%
- Chinese 23 0.0%
- Slavic languages 15 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 18,575
- Family households
- 13,208
- 71.1% of households
- Married w/ children
- 9,472
- Single-mother households
- 1,256
- Veterans
- 3,827
- 9.3% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
34.1% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 8,739 17.4%
- Catholic 2,572 5.1%
- Black Protestant 2,568 5.1%
- Mainline Protestant 2,237 4.5%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 976 1.9%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 84.2%
- With a disability
- 23.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 13.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 258th 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
- Coldspring, Groveton, Livingston
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 25
- 60.62 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 21
NHTSA FARS 2023