Starr County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 1,510 2.3%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 64,218 97.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 232 0.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 38 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 59 0.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 21,472 32.5%
• 18–24 7,396 11.2%
• 25–44 16,493 25.0%
• 45–64 13,187 20.0%
• 65 and over 7,519 11.4%

Median household income

$37,375

90% interval $33,275–$41,475

−$42,348 vs TX · 254th of 254

Below poverty line

35.4%

90% interval 31.5%–39.3%

+22.0 pp vs TX · 1st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

9.6%

+5.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.6B

0.06% of state

Avg. annual pay

$41,877

Establishments

671

• Education & health services 8,232 54.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,605 17.3%
• Public administration 1,521 10.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,196 7.9%
• Financial activities 290 1.9%
• Professional & business services 226 1.5%
• Construction 185 1.2%
• Other services 85 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 95.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.5%

+6.9 pp vs TX · 181st of 254

Median gross rent

$726

−$677 vs TX · 219th of 254

Owner-occupied

13,320

Renter-occupied

5,837

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 82% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $95,584/yr) pays 5.2× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $18,319/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 22 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 9,487 57.8%
• Democratic 6,862 41.8%
• Other / third-party 70 0.4%

• Spanish 54,743 91.0%
• German or other West Germanic 31 0.1%
• Vietnamese 24 0.0%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 3 0.0%
• Tagalog 2 0.0%

Households

19,157

Family households

14,969

78.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,814

32.2% of families

Single-mother families

2,905

19.4% of families

Veterans

885

2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 50,731 77.0%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,521 3.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,128 3.2%
• Mainline Protestant 234 0.4%

Health insured

71.1%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

28.9%

±2.3 pp

5th of 254

With a disability

16.8%

±1.2 pp

103rd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

13.6%

±1.7 pp

−20.2 pp vs TX · 222nd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

27.1%

90% interval 24.9%–29.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

229th 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

Hebbronville, Rio Grande City, San Diego

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

15.7 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7