Jury Pool Profile

Potter County, Texas

Republican +44 (2024)

Population: 116,634
Median household income: $50,448
Unemployment: 3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 72,161 61.9%
Black or African American alone 12,309 10.6%
Asian alone 5,947 5.1%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 679 0.6%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 131 0.1%
Some other race alone 6,506 5.6%
Two or more races 18,901 16.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 45,218 38.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 35.1

Under 18 31,334 26.9%
18–24 10,650 9.1%
25–44 32,114 27.5%
45–64 26,306 22.6%
65 and over 16,230 13.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.5%; -0.69 pp vs. state
County GDP: $11.4B; 0.41% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,781
Establishments: 4,057

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 22,284 28.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 16,132 20.7%
Leisure & hospitality 9,141 11.7%
Manufacturing 7,292 9.4%
Professional & business services 7,035 9.0%
Construction 4,096 5.3%
Financial activities 4,067 5.2%
Other services 2,677 3.4%
Public administration 2,167 2.8%
Information 708 0.9%
Natural resources & mining 520 0.7%
Unclassified 52 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 56.5%
Median gross rent: $989
Owner-occupied: 23,949
Renter-occupied: 18,414

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 32,091 votes cast

Republican 23,007 71.7%
Democratic 8,748 27.3%
Other / third-party 336 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

69.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 25,388 23.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 3,489 3.2%
Other 1,584 1.5%
Vietnamese 1,215 1.1%
Arabic 368 0.3%
Other Indo-European 172 0.2%
Tagalog 94 0.1%
Chinese 93 0.1%
German 80 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 79 0.1%
Korean 78 0.1%
Slavic languages 57 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 42,363
Family households: 26,244; 62.0% of households
Married w/ children: 17,200
Single-mother households: 3,314
Veterans: 5,748; 6.8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

77.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 58,371 49.2%
Catholic 22,050 18.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,785 4.0%
Mainline Protestant 4,435 3.7%
Black Protestant 2,046 1.7%
Orthodox 200 0.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 79.5%
With a disability: 14.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 47th District Court
Judges: 5 (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: Amarillo, Canyon, Claude

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 24; 28.14 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 24

NHTSA FARS 2023