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Jury Pool Profile

Trinity County, Texas

Republican +67.0 (2024)
County seat
Groveton
Judicial district
258th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
14,384
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 14,046.

At a glance

Trinity County is a 14,384-person venue. The county population is 79% White and 8% Black (Census race-alone categories). 11% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Median household income is $53,638, $26,085 below the TX state median of $79,723; 16.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 9.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 33.5% of covered employment, average pay $45,953/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.56%, above the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 79% to 83% of the vote across the three.

Population
14,046
Median household income
$52,018
Unemployment
5.6%

Who sits on a jury?

Predominantly White

≥70% White (race-alone) and <20% Black. This county: 79% / 8%.

Trinity County has a population of 14,046, with a median age of 49.2. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 78.8%; Black residents 8.1%. Independently, 11.2% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $53,638; 16.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 16.8% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 10,801 76.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,569 11.2%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,105 7.9%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 26 0.2%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 532 3.8%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 6 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 49.2

  • Under 18 2,719 19.4%
  • 18–24 1,035 7.4%
  • 25–44 2,670 19.0%
  • 45–64 3,807 27.1%
  • 65 and over 3,815 27.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$53,638
90% interval $47,384–$59,892
−$26,085 vs TX · 221st of 254
Below poverty line
16.8%
90% interval 13.0%–20.6%
+3.4 pp vs TX · 77th 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 33% of covered jobs.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 33.5% of covered employment, followed by Leisure & hospitality at 18.5%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 5.56%, above the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
5.6%
+1.24 pp vs. state
County GDP
$349.5M
0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay
$43,635
Establishments
228

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 814 33.5%
  • Leisure & hospitality 450 18.5%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 396 16.3%
  • Manufacturing 159 6.5%
  • Public administration 122 5.0%
  • Other services 113 4.6%
  • Professional & business services 84 3.5%

The sectors listed cover 87.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
79.4%
+16.8 pp vs TX · 59th of 254
Median gross rent
$856
−$547 vs TX · 171st of 254
Owner-occupied
4,824
Renter-occupied
1,254

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 68% 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.

  • Moderate wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $74,805/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Other services, $24,334/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 11 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

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 81%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Trinity County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 83.2% in 2024, 80.4% in 2020, 79.2% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 7,374 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201679.2%19.3%
202080.4%19.1%
202483.2%16.2%
  • Republican 6,136 83.2%
  • Democratic 1,195 16.2%
  • Other / third-party 43 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 63% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 9.8% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

9.8% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, French, Haitian, or Cajun, Tagalog. Veterans account for 8.5% of the adult civilian population (958 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

90.2% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 1,075 8.0%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 167 1.2%
  • Tagalog 32 0.2%
  • German or other West Germanic 15 0.1%
  • Chinese 10 0.1%
  • Vietnamese 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
6,078
Family households
3,806
62.6% of households
Married couples w/ children
559
14.7% of families
Single-mother families
206
5.4% of families
Veterans
958
8.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

48.1% overall adherence rate

  • Evangelical Protestant 5,038 37.0%
  • Catholic 613 4.5%
  • Mainline Protestant 458 3.4%
  • Black Protestant 438 3.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
84.0%
±2.8 pp
Uninsured
16.0%
±2.8 pp
142nd of 254
With a disability
24.4%
±2.7 pp
17th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
16.8%
±2.6 pp
−17.0 pp vs TX · 181st of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
18.7%
90% interval 16.9%–20.5% · 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
258th 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
Coldspring, Groveton, Livingston

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Trinity totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 8 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
8
70.63 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
7

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Trinity 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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