San Jacinto County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 19,576 68.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,452 19.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,469 8.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 78 0.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 835 2.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 18 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 13 0.0%

• Under 18 6,120 21.5%
• 18–24 2,286 8.0%
• 25–44 6,009 21.1%
• 45–64 7,896 27.8%
• 65 and over 6,130 21.6%

Median household income

$62,182

90% interval $55,319–$69,045

−$17,541 vs TX · 154th of 254

Below poverty line

16.8%

90% interval 13.6%–20.0%

+3.4 pp vs TX · 76th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.3%

+0.98 pp vs. state

County GDP

$522.7M

0.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$46,900

Establishments

307

• Trade, transportation & utilities 459 18.4%
• Professional & business services 288 11.6%
• Construction 189 7.6%
• Education & health services 176 7.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 160 6.4%
• Public administration 157 6.3%
• Financial activities 100 4.0%
• Manufacturing 83 3.3%
• Other services 83 3.3%
• Natural resources & mining 26 1.0%
• Information 4 0.2%
• Unclassified 2 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 69.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

84.6%

+22.0 pp vs TX · 10th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,060

−$343 vs TX · 78th of 254

Owner-occupied

9,201

Renter-occupied

1,680

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 38% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $83,812/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,459/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 8.1 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 10,524 82.3%
• Democratic 2,175 17.0%
• Other / third-party 90 0.7%

• Spanish 4,158 15.4%
• Arabic 97 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 53 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 47 0.2%
• Vietnamese 18 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 2 0.0%

Households

10,881

Family households

8,227

75.6% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,941

23.6% of families

Single-mother families

418

5.1% of families

Veterans

2,204

9.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,396 16.0%
• Mainline Protestant 563 2.1%
• Black Protestant 538 2.0%
• Catholic 242 0.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 102 0.4%

Health insured

82.3%

±1.8 pp

Uninsured

17.7%

±1.8 pp

103rd of 254

With a disability

23.6%

±2.4 pp

19th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

16.2%

±2.6 pp

−17.6 pp vs TX · 189th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

22.1%

90% interval 20.3%–23.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

258th 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

Coldspring, Groveton, Livingston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

12

53.76 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12