Jury Pool Profile

Shackelford County, Texas

Republican +82 (2024)

Population: 3,169
Median household income: $64,659
Unemployment: 3.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 2,751 86.8%
Black or African American alone 37 1.2%
Asian alone 6 0.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 8 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 131 4.1%
Two or more races 236 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 401 12.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 43.9

Under 18 717 22.6%
18–24 250 7.9%
25–44 674 21.3%
45–64 887 28.0%
65 and over 641 20.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.4%; -0.84 pp vs. state
County GDP: $301.6M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $75,130
Establishments: 137

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Natural resources & mining 486 37.6%
Education & health services 227 17.6%
Trade, transportation & utilities 115 8.9%
Financial activities 86 6.7%
Leisure & hospitality 50 3.9%
Professional & business services 22 1.7%
Public administration 6 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 81.9%
Median gross rent: $485
Owner-occupied: 1,088
Renter-occupied: 241

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 1,727 votes cast

Republican 1,565 90.6%
Democratic 146 8.5%
Other / third-party 16 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

93.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 164 5.5%
German 33 1.1%
Slavic languages 5 0.2%
Korean 5 0.2%
Vietnamese 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 1,329
Family households: 907; 68.2% of households
Married w/ children: 726
Single-mother households: 86
Veterans: 140; 5.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

58.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 1,388 44.7%
Mainline Protestant 293 9.4%
Catholic 138 4.4%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 86.4%
With a disability: 19.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 34.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 42nd 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: Abilene, Albany, Baird, Coleman

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 2; 81.57 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023