Smith County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 138,917 57.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 50,591 20.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 39,300 16.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 4,208 1.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,722 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 231 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 98 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 673 0.3%

• Under 18 58,485 24.2%
• 18–24 22,961 9.5%
• 25–44 62,595 25.9%
• 45–64 55,541 23.0%
• 65 and over 42,158 17.4%

Median household income

$75,620

90% interval $72,140–$79,100

−$4,103 vs TX · 62nd of 254

Below poverty line

12.1%

90% interval 10.1%–14.1%

−1.3 pp vs TX · 189th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.23 pp vs. state

County GDP

$16.7B

0.6% of state

Avg. annual pay

$59,676

Establishments

6,841

• Education & health services 34,650 30.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 25,243 21.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 12,922 11.2%
• Professional & business services 11,494 10.0%
• Manufacturing 7,516 6.5%
• Construction 5,368 4.6%
• Financial activities 4,545 3.9%
• Other services 3,052 2.6%
• Public administration 2,166 1.9%
• Natural resources & mining 2,159 1.9%
• Information 1,440 1.2%
• Unclassified 168 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 95.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

68.8%

+6.2 pp vs TX · 186th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,238

−$165 vs TX · 37th of 254

Owner-occupied

57,215

Renter-occupied

25,919

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 63% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $112,861/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,366/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 74,862 72.1%
• Democratic 28,041 27.0%
• Other / third-party 912 0.9%

• Spanish 36,143 16.0%
• Vietnamese 836 0.4%
• Tagalog 722 0.3%
• Chinese 346 0.2%
• Arabic 286 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 279 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 245 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 142 0.1%
• Korean 83 0.0%

Households

83,134

Family households

57,522

69.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

17,342

30.1% of families

Single-mother families

5,498

9.6% of families

Veterans

10,661

5.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 92,135 39.5%
• Catholic 22,428 9.6%
• Mainline Protestant 12,470 5.3%
• Black Protestant 9,852 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 6,663 2.9%
• Orthodox 170 0.1%

Health insured

83.1%

±0.9 pp

Uninsured

16.9%

±0.9 pp

122nd of 254

With a disability

13.5%

±0.7 pp

191st of 254

Bachelor's or higher

28.6%

±1 pp

−5.2 pp vs TX · 44th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

21.0%

90% interval 19.6%–22.4% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

7th District Court

Judges

3 (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

Tyler

Traffic fatalities

53

28.92 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

46