Polk County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 37,440 70.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,100 15.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,079 7.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 295 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,360 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 494 0.9%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 30 0.1%

• Under 18 10,727 20.3%
• 18–24 3,731 7.1%
• 25–44 12,568 23.8%
• 45–64 15,673 29.7%
• 65 and over 10,101 19.1%

Median household income

$65,522

90% interval $58,963–$72,081

−$14,201 vs TX · 125th of 254

Below poverty line

14.5%

90% interval 11.5%–17.5%

+1.1 pp vs TX · 138th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.0%

+0.71 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.9B

0.07% of state

Avg. annual pay

$53,421

Establishments

954

• Education & health services 2,826 21.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,302 17.5%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,613 12.3%
• Manufacturing 1,516 11.5%
• Financial activities 991 7.5%
• Professional & business services 983 7.5%
• Public administration 704 5.4%
• Other services 227 1.7%

The sectors listed cover 84.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.1%

+15.5 pp vs TX · 78th of 254

Median gross rent

$987

−$416 vs TX · 112th of 254

Owner-occupied

15,241

Renter-occupied

4,276

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 51% 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 (Manufacturing, $75,603/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,602/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 19,216 79.1%
• Democratic 4,910 20.2%
• Other / third-party 159 0.7%

• Spanish 5,069 10.1%
• Arabic 134 0.3%
• Korean 83 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 79 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 39 0.1%
• Vietnamese 33 0.1%
• Tagalog 31 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 25 0.0%
• Chinese 18 0.0%

Households

19,517

Family households

13,942

71.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,279

23.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,276

9.2% of families

Veterans

3,973

9.5% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

85.6%

±1.9 pp

Uninsured

14.4%

±1.9 pp

179th of 254

With a disability

22.7%

±1.5 pp

26th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

16.2%

±1.9 pp

−17.6 pp vs TX · 188th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.0%

90% interval 19.3%–22.7% · Census SAHIE

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

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 counties.

Traffic fatalities

22

52.29 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

21