Jury Pool Profile

Rains County, Texas

Republican +73 (2024)

Population: 12,505
Median household income: $64,874
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 10,903 87.2%
Black or African American alone 357 2.9%
Asian alone 96 0.8%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 60 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 170 1.4%
Two or more races 919 7.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,228 9.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 46.2

Under 18 2,414 19.3%
18–24 683 5.5%
25–44 2,931 23.4%
45–64 3,447 27.6%
65 and over 3,030 24.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $344.5M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $43,966
Establishments: 271

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 492 21.0%
Leisure & hospitality 288 12.3%
Professional & business services 277 11.8%
Construction 253 10.8%
Education & health services 165 7.1%
Public administration 123 5.3%
Manufacturing 95 4.1%
Financial activities 73 3.1%
Other services 50 2.1%
Natural resources & mining 45 1.9%
Information 15 0.6%
Unclassified 9 0.4%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.9%
Median gross rent: $895
Owner-occupied: 3,916
Renter-occupied: 807

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 6,554 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

95.2% speak only English at home

Spanish 423 3.5%
Chinese 46 0.4%
Other Indo-European 21 0.2%
Other 21 0.2%
Tagalog 20 0.2%
German 16 0.1%
Arabic 15 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 12 0.1%
Vietnamese 2 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 4,723
Family households: 3,545; 75.1% of households
Married w/ children: 2,474
Single-mother households: 482
Veterans: 1,335; 13.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

45.9% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 85.5%
With a disability: 20.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 25.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 0; 0 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 0

NHTSA FARS 2023