Jury Pool Profile
Reeves County, Texas
- County seat
- Pecos
- Judicial district
- 143rd District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 12,138
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 12,664.
At a glance
Reeves County is a 12,138-person venue. The county population is 39% White (Census race-alone categories). 85% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 11.6%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $63,822, $15,901 below the TX state median of $79,723; 7.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 62.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 24.4% of covered employment, average pay $72,572/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.79%, below the 4.32% state average. The county has not voted for the same party across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles . See Section 3 for cycle-by-cycle breakdowns. At least 8% of residents here live in group quarters rather than households, barracks, dormitories, correctional facilities or nursing homes; the ACS survey and the 2020 census disagree on how many, and this is the lower of the two, so the figures above describe a population substantially larger than the one a summons reaches.
- Population
- 12,664
- Median household income
- $64,297
- Unemployment
- 3.8%
Who sits on a jury?
<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 39%; Black: 2%.
Reeves County has a population of 12,664, with a median age of 34.4. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 38.8%; Black residents 1.8%. Independently, 85.3% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $63,822; 7.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 16.8% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Largest sector in BLS QCEW, with cells BLS withholds estimated from Census County Business Patterns (private jobs) and the statewide public-sector mix: Trade, transportation & utilities, about 24% of covered jobs. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 12.8% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 24.4% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 13.4%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.79%, below the Texas state average.
Political composition
Different parties won across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles.
Reeves County was carried by the Republican candidate with 68.0% of the vote in 2024; the Republican candidate with 61.1% of the vote in 2020; the Democratic candidate with 52.1% of the vote in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 66% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 62.1% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
62.1% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Vietnamese. Veterans account for 3.3% of the adult civilian population (309 individuals).