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Tom Green County, Texas

Republican +48.0 (2024)
County seat
San Angelo
Judicial district
51st District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
120,602
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 119,577.

At a glance

Tom Green County is a 120,602-person venue. The county population is 63% White (Census race-alone categories). 41% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 51.4%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $69,148, $10,575 below the TX state median of $79,723; 25.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 23.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish and German or other West Germanic. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 24.7% of covered employment, average pay $62,866/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.45%, below the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 72% to 74% of the vote across the three.

Population
119,577
Median household income
$68,370
Unemployment
3.5%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 63% / 4%.

Tom Green County has a population of 119,577, with a median age of 36.0. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 63.1%; Black residents 3.9%. Independently, 40.6% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $69,148; 25.5% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 11.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 61,456 51.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 48,530 40.6%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 4,247 3.6%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,598 1.3%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,978 2.5%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 120 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 66 0.1%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 582 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 36

  • Under 18 28,396 23.7%
  • 18–24 12,561 10.5%
  • 25–44 32,969 27.6%
  • 45–64 25,356 21.2%
  • 65 and over 20,295 17.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$69,148
90% interval $64,875–$73,421
−$10,575 vs TX · 91st of 254
Below poverty line
11.5%
90% interval 9.0%–14.0%
−1.9 pp vs TX · 196th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Healthcare & education anchored

Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Education & health services, about 25% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 24.7% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 19.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.45%, below the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
3.5%
−0.87 pp vs. state
County GDP
$8.6B
0.31% of state
Avg. annual pay
$57,832
Establishments
3,042

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 12,319 24.7%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 9,752 19.5%
  • Leisure & hospitality 6,438 12.9%
  • Manufacturing 4,182 8.4%
  • Professional & business services 4,155 8.3%
  • Construction 2,359 4.7%
  • Public administration 2,250 4.5%
  • Financial activities 2,246 4.5%
  • Other services 1,522 3.0%
  • Natural resources & mining 1,362 2.7%
  • Information 504 1.0%
  • Unclassified 16 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 94.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
65.1%
+2.5 pp vs TX · 214th of 254
Median gross rent
$1,154
−$249 vs TX · 52nd of 254
Owner-occupied
30,460
Renter-occupied
16,296

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Moderately concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 57% 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 (Information, $104,123/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,923/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

# Employer Sector Employees
1 Goodfellow Air Force Base Federal government (military) 6,220
2 Shannon Health System Health care 4,221
3 Angelo State University Higher education (state) 2,176
4 San Angelo Independent School District Education 1,847

Showing 4 of 10 employers on the published list(18,910 employees total).

Source: City of San Angelo, Texas, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended September 30, 2025, Table 16, 'Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago'. Sources named are the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Goodfellow Air Force Base's count is the Texas Comptroller's 2023 figure for its full-time-equivalent jobs. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 72%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Tom Green County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 73.5% in 2024, 71.5% in 2020, 71.8% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 45,438 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201671.8%23.9%
202071.5%27.1%
202473.5%25.5%
  • Republican 33,399 73.5%
  • Democratic 11,585 25.5%
  • Other / third-party 454 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 63% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 23.4% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

23.4% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, German or other West Germanic, Tagalog. Veterans account for 9.6% of the adult civilian population (8,472 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

76.6% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 23,863 21.3%
  • German or other West Germanic 474 0.4%
  • Tagalog 420 0.4%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 291 0.3%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 249 0.2%
  • Arabic 149 0.1%
  • Korean 113 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 112 0.1%
  • Chinese 15 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
46,756
Family households
29,403
62.9% of households
Married couples w/ children
8,042
27.4% of families
Single-mother families
3,346
11.4% of families
Veterans
8,472
9.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

60.2% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 40,391 33.7%
  • Catholic 22,152 18.5%
  • Mainline Protestant 5,431 4.5%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,980 2.5%
  • Black Protestant 1,158 1.0%
  • Orthodox 75 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
84.5%
±1.4 pp
Uninsured
15.5%
±1.4 pp
156th of 254
With a disability
15.5%
±1 pp
130th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
25.5%
±1.5 pp
−8.3 pp vs TX · 67th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
18.4%
90% interval 16.9%–19.9% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
51st 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
Eldorado, Mertzon, Robert Lee, San Angelo, Sterling City

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Tom Green totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 17 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
17
18.64 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
16

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Tom Green County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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