Jury Pool Profile

Rusk County, Texas

Republican +59 (2024)

Population: 52,613
Median household income: $67,506
Unemployment: 4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 35,558 67.6%
Black or African American alone 6,920 13.2%
Asian alone 189 0.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 91 0.2%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 45 0.1%
Some other race alone 1,270 2.4%
Two or more races 8,540 16.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,839 18.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 38.8

Under 18 11,932 22.7%
18–24 4,433 8.4%
25–44 14,068 26.7%
45–64 13,173 25.0%
65 and over 9,007 17.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.4%; +0.15 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.8B; 0.1% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,942
Establishments: 874

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,578 27.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,460 18.8%
Manufacturing 1,310 10.0%
Construction 1,165 8.9%
Leisure & hospitality 1,013 7.7%
Professional & business services 952 7.3%
Natural resources & mining 880 6.7%
Financial activities 719 5.5%
Public administration 468 3.6%
Other services 263 2.0%
Information 85 0.6%
Unclassified 4 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 80.0%
Median gross rent: $997
Owner-occupied: 14,373
Renter-occupied: 3,590

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 21,702 votes cast

Republican 17,234 79.4%
Democratic 4,337 20.0%
Other / third-party 131 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

86.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 6,403 12.9%
Other Asian/Pacific 98 0.2%
German 52 0.1%
Other Indo-European 49 0.1%
Vietnamese 35 0.1%
Tagalog 30 0.1%
Chinese 29 0.1%
Other 27 0.1%
Slavic languages 23 0.0%
French (incl. Cajun) 7 0.0%
Arabic 4 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 17,963
Family households: 13,050; 72.6% of households
Married w/ children: 9,708
Single-mother households: 1,348
Veterans: 2,922; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

43.3% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 14,315 27.4%
Catholic 3,297 6.3%
Black Protestant 2,236 4.3%
Mainline Protestant 1,802 3.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 939 1.8%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.0%
With a disability: 15.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 17.9%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 4th 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: Henderson

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 19; 46.7 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 17

NHTSA FARS 2023