Rusk County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 32,458 61.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,088 19.1%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 6,964 13.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 191 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,010 5.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 68 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 48 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 15 0.0%

• Under 18 11,930 22.6%
• 18–24 4,536 8.6%
• 25–44 14,117 26.7%
• 45–64 13,034 24.7%
• 65 and over 9,225 17.5%

Median household income

$67,655

90% interval $62,510–$72,800

−$12,068 vs TX · 108th of 254

Below poverty line

14.1%

90% interval 10.9%–17.3%

+0.7 pp vs TX · 148th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.5%

+0.23 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.8B

0.1% of state

Avg. annual pay

$55,852

Establishments

870

• Education & health services 3,648 27.4%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,408 18.1%
• Manufacturing 1,233 9.3%
• Professional & business services 1,197 9.0%
• Construction 1,092 8.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 994 7.5%
• Natural resources & mining 859 6.5%
• Financial activities 753 5.7%
• Public administration 342 2.6%
• Other services 246 1.8%
• Information 84 0.6%
• Unclassified 5 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 96.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

78.8%

+16.2 pp vs TX · 65th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,015

−$388 vs TX · 101st of 254

Owner-occupied

14,213

Renter-occupied

3,814

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 55% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Information, $118,107/yr) pays 5.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,150/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

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

• Spanish 6,645 13.3%
• Vietnamese 59 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 30 0.1%
• Tagalog 21 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 9 0.0%
• Chinese 8 0.0%
• Arabic 5 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 4 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

18,027

Family households

13,144

72.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,949

30.0% of families

Single-mother families

1,273

9.7% of families

Veterans

2,883

7% of civilians 18+

• 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%

Health insured

86.3%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

13.7%

±1.8 pp

195th of 254

With a disability

15.6%

±1.3 pp

128th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

17.5%

±1.7 pp

−16.3 pp vs TX · 167th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

18.3%

90% interval 16.7%–19.9% · Census SAHIE

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

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

Traffic fatalities

17

41.55 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

17