Jury Pool Profile

Tom Green County, Texas

Republican +48 (2024)

Population: 119,398
Median household income: $66,254
Unemployment: 3.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 82,355 69.0%
Black or African American alone 4,487 3.8%
Asian alone 1,617 1.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 571 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 114 0.1%
Some other race alone 7,408 6.2%
Two or more races 22,846 19.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 47,877 40.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 35.8

Under 18 28,580 23.9%
18–24 12,513 10.5%
25–44 32,955 27.6%
45–64 25,610 21.4%
65 and over 19,740 16.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.2%; -0.98 pp vs. state
County GDP: $8.6B; 0.31% of state
Avg. annual pay: $56,023
Establishments: 3,105

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 14,378 28.7%
Trade, transportation & utilities 9,605 19.1%
Leisure & hospitality 6,532 13.0%
Professional & business services 4,173 8.3%
Manufacturing 4,146 8.3%
Construction 2,376 4.7%
Financial activities 2,363 4.7%
Public administration 2,223 4.4%
Natural resources & mining 1,527 3.0%
Other services 1,487 3.0%
Information 546 1.1%
Unclassified 22 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 66.8%
Median gross rent: $1,125
Owner-occupied: 30,807
Renter-occupied: 15,287

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 45,438 votes cast

Republican 33,399 73.5%
Democratic 11,585 25.5%
Other / third-party 454 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

76.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 23,975 21.4%
German 469 0.4%
Tagalog 405 0.4%
Other Indo-European 352 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 290 0.3%
Slavic languages 240 0.2%
Korean 200 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 166 0.1%
Arabic 134 0.1%
Vietnamese 102 0.1%
Other 57 0.1%
Chinese 20 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 46,094
Family households: 29,111; 63.2% of households
Married w/ children: 20,912
Single-mother households: 3,204
Veterans: 8,439; 9.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

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: 85.5%
With a disability: 15.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 25.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 17; 18.72 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 15

NHTSA FARS 2023