Jury Pool Profile

San Augustine County, Texas

Republican +56 (2024)

Population: 7,889
Median household income: $46,338
Unemployment: 5.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 5,574 70.7%
Black or African American alone 1,746 22.1%
Asian alone 0 0.0%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 72 0.9%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 359 4.6%
Two or more races 138 1.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 643 8.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 48.8

Under 18 1,585 20.1%
18–24 522 6.6%
25–44 1,435 18.2%
45–64 2,211 28.0%
65 and over 2,136 27.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.6%; +1.35 pp vs. state
County GDP: $780.3M; 0.03% of state
Avg. annual pay: $51,270
Establishments: 155

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 711 35.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 413 20.5%
Public administration 100 5.0%
Leisure & hospitality 74 3.7%
Professional & business services 48 2.4%
Financial activities 33 1.6%
Other services 17 0.8%
Information 8 0.4%
Unclassified 2 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 74.8%
Median gross rent: $741
Owner-occupied: 2,256
Renter-occupied: 761

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 3,747 votes cast

Republican 2,917 77.8%
Democratic 809 21.6%
Other / third-party 21 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

92.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 558 7.4%
German 9 0.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 3,017
Family households: 2,265; 75.1% of households
Married w/ children: 1,582
Single-mother households: 204
Veterans: 725; 11.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

49.4% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 2,902 36.7%
Black Protestant 618 7.8%
Catholic 200 2.5%
Mainline Protestant 189 2.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 80.0%
With a disability: 22.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 11.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 1st 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: Hemphill, Jasper, Newton, San Augustine, Woodville

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 2; 31.73 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023