Jury Pool Profile

San Saba County, Texas

Republican +79 (2024)

Population: 5,802
Median household income: $54,855
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 4,503 77.6%
Black or African American alone 141 2.4%
Asian alone 12 0.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 21 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 11 0.2%
Some other race alone 287 4.9%
Two or more races 827 14.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,753 30.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.1

Under 18 1,113 19.2%
18–24 577 9.9%
25–44 1,540 26.5%
45–64 1,269 21.9%
65 and over 1,303 22.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.47 pp vs. state
County GDP: $201.9M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $45,000
Establishments: 205

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 422 26.6%
Education & health services 312 19.6%
Natural resources & mining 229 14.4%
Public administration 205 12.9%
Leisure & hospitality 127 8.0%
Manufacturing 66 4.2%
Other services 58 3.7%
Professional & business services 46 2.9%
Construction 44 2.8%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 68.9%
Median gross rent: $894
Owner-occupied: 1,444
Renter-occupied: 651

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,703 votes cast

Republican 2,412 89.2%
Democratic 276 10.2%
Other / third-party 15 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

77.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 1,178 21.3%
German 30 0.5%
Other 17 0.3%
Vietnamese 8 0.1%
Other Indo-European 6 0.1%
Other Asian/Pacific 2 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 2,095
Family households: 1,362; 65.0% of households
Married w/ children: 1,113
Single-mother households: 81
Veterans: 299; 6.4% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

77.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 3,305 57.7%
Catholic 843 14.7%
Mainline Protestant 244 4.3%
Black Protestant 60 1.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 74.3%
With a disability: 15.6%
Bachelor's or higher: 21.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 33rd 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: Burnet, Johnson City, Llano, San Saba

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 4; 85.31 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 3

NHTSA FARS 2023