Jury Pool Profile

Smith County, Texas

Republican +45 (2024)

Population: 238,014
Median household income: $71,923
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 164,335 69.0%
Black or African American alone 39,645 16.7%
Asian alone 3,925 1.6%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 967 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 194 0.1%
Some other race alone 8,288 3.5%
Two or more races 20,660 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 49,012 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 37.4

Under 18 57,909 24.3%
18–24 22,627 9.5%
25–44 61,474 25.8%
45–64 55,185 23.2%
65 and over 40,819 17.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; -0.2 pp vs. state
County GDP: $16.7B; 0.6% of state
Avg. annual pay: $57,439
Establishments: 6,931

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 37,363 32.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 25,043 22.1%
Leisure & hospitality 12,667 11.2%
Professional & business services 11,076 9.8%
Manufacturing 7,392 6.5%
Construction 5,283 4.7%
Financial activities 4,475 3.9%
Other services 3,109 2.7%
Public administration 2,137 1.9%
Natural resources & mining 2,110 1.9%
Information 1,505 1.3%
Unclassified 80 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 69.3%
Median gross rent: $1,197
Owner-occupied: 56,616
Renter-occupied: 25,074

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 103,815 votes cast

Republican 74,862 72.1%
Democratic 28,041 27.0%
Other / third-party 912 0.9%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

82.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 35,139 15.8%
Other Indo-European 948 0.4%
Other 883 0.4%
Tagalog 623 0.3%
Vietnamese 469 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 407 0.2%
Chinese 389 0.2%
Slavic languages 247 0.1%
German 228 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 216 0.1%
Arabic 193 0.1%
Korean 84 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 81,690
Family households: 56,754; 69.5% of households
Married w/ children: 42,626
Single-mother households: 5,047
Veterans: 11,015; 6.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

61.6% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 83.3%
With a disability: 13.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 27.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 72; 39.98 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 64

NHTSA FARS 2023