Jury Pool Profile

Taylor County, Texas

Republican +50 (2024)

Population: 144,259
Median household income: $66,406
Unemployment: 3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 101,650 70.5%
Black or African American alone 11,567 8.0%
Asian alone 3,258 2.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 547 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 228 0.2%
Some other race alone 7,875 5.5%
Two or more races 19,134 13.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35,709 24.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 33

Under 18 35,427 24.6%
18–24 20,252 14.0%
25–44 38,614 26.8%
45–64 28,669 19.9%
65 and over 21,297 14.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.5%; -0.74 pp vs. state
County GDP: $9.9B; 0.36% of state
Avg. annual pay: $55,914
Establishments: 3,886

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 21,385 31.3%
Trade, transportation & utilities 14,316 21.0%
Leisure & hospitality 8,061 11.8%
Professional & business services 6,099 8.9%
Financial activities 4,138 6.1%
Construction 3,256 4.8%
Manufacturing 2,961 4.3%
Public administration 2,198 3.2%
Other services 2,075 3.0%
Natural resources & mining 1,144 1.7%
Information 825 1.2%
Unclassified 66 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 59.8%
Median gross rent: $1,111
Owner-occupied: 32,504
Renter-occupied: 21,886

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 55,386 votes cast

Republican 41,198 74.4%
Democratic 13,624 24.6%
Other / third-party 564 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

83.9% speak only English at home

Spanish 17,111 12.7%
Other Indo-European 648 0.5%
Other 621 0.5%
French (incl. Cajun) 620 0.5%
Tagalog 589 0.4%
Vietnamese 555 0.4%
Other Asian/Pacific 508 0.4%
German 480 0.4%
Korean 285 0.2%
Chinese 165 0.1%
Slavic languages 47 0.0%
Arabic 30 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 54,390
Family households: 35,956; 66.1% of households
Married w/ children: 26,485
Single-mother households: 3,811
Veterans: 9,592; 9.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

62.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 65,617 45.8%
Catholic 10,906 7.6%
Mainline Protestant 9,283 6.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,985 2.1%
Black Protestant 1,056 0.7%
Orthodox 45 0.0%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 85.5%
With a disability: 14.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 29.0%

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: 11; 10.11 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 11

NHTSA FARS 2023