Rains County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 10,453 81.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,311 10.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 319 2.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 128 1.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 470 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 59 0.5%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 35 0.3%

• Under 18 2,456 19.2%
• 18–24 759 5.9%
• 25–44 2,947 23.1%
• 45–64 3,463 27.1%
• 65 and over 3,150 24.7%

Median household income

$66,146

90% interval $59,306–$72,986

−$13,577 vs TX · 123rd of 254

Below poverty line

11.2%

90% interval 8.1%–14.3%

−2.2 pp vs TX · 204th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.2%

−0.11 pp vs. state

County GDP

$344.5M

0.01% of state

Avg. annual pay

$44,756

Establishments

262

• Trade, transportation & utilities 503 22.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 261 11.6%
• Construction 258 11.4%
• Professional & business services 202 8.9%
• Education & health services 174 7.7%
• Public administration 127 5.6%
• Manufacturing 106 4.7%
• Financial activities 69 3.1%
• Other services 52 2.3%
• Natural resources & mining 41 1.8%
• Information 5 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 79.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.6%

+20.0 pp vs TX · 24th of 254

Median gross rent

$989

−$414 vs TX · 109th of 254

Owner-occupied

4,010

Renter-occupied

846

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 45% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $72,482/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,602/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.6 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 5,649 86.2%
• Democratic 869 13.3%
• Other / third-party 36 0.5%

• Spanish 608 5.0%
• Chinese 82 0.7%
• Tagalog 17 0.1%
• Arabic 17 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 16 0.1%
• Vietnamese 2 0.0%

Households

4,856

Family households

3,623

74.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

474

13.1% of families

Single-mother families

263

7.3% of families

Veterans

1,243

12% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,577 37.6%
• Catholic 599 4.9%
• Mainline Protestant 250 2.1%
• Black Protestant 150 1.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%

Health insured

82.5%

±2.8 pp

Uninsured

17.5%

±2.8 pp

109th of 254

With a disability

18.8%

±2.6 pp

67th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

20.9%

±3.3 pp

−12.9 pp vs TX · 122nd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.3%

90% interval 19.4%–23.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

8th 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

Cooper, Emory, Mount Vernon, Sulphur Springs

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

4

38.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3