Jury Pool Profile
Upshur County, Texas
Republican +71 (2024)
- Population
- 41,864
- Median household income
- $62,794
- Unemployment
- 4.4%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 34,059 81.4%
- Black or African American alone 2,995 7.2%
- Asian alone 181 0.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 102 0.2%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 15 0.0%
- Some other race alone 1,132 2.7%
- Two or more races 3,380 8.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,219 10.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.3
- Under 18 10,056 24.0%
- 18–24 3,155 7.5%
- 25–44 10,250 24.5%
- 45–64 10,758 25.7%
- 65 and over 7,645 18.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.4%
- +0.2 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.2B
- 0.04% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $48,879
- Establishments
- 585
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,378 30.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,577 20.3%
- Construction 850 11.0%
- Leisure & hospitality 845 10.9%
- Manufacturing 555 7.2%
- Professional & business services 324 4.2%
- Financial activities 313 4.0%
- Public administration 296 3.8%
- Information 289 3.7%
- Other services 160 2.1%
- Natural resources & mining 68 0.9%
- Unclassified 1 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 79.3%
- Median gross rent
- $1,015
- Owner-occupied
- 12,185
- Renter-occupied
- 3,187
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 19,882 votes cast
- Republican 16,939 85.2%
- Democratic 2,820 14.2%
- Other / third-party 123 0.6%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
95.1% speak only English at home
- Spanish 1,731 4.4%
- Chinese 69 0.2%
- Tagalog 51 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 36 0.1%
- German 24 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 16 0.0%
- Other Asian/Pacific 6 0.0%
- Korean 4 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 15,372
- Family households
- 10,825
- 70.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 8,037
- Single-mother households
- 875
- Veterans
- 2,915
- 9.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
44.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 12,022 29.4%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,610 6.4%
- Black Protestant 2,474 6.1%
- Mainline Protestant 641 1.6%
- Catholic 450 1.1%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 86.8%
- With a disability
- 20.4%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 17.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 115th 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
- Gilmer, Jefferson
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 9
- 28.29 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 8
NHTSA FARS 2023