Upton County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 1,358 42.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,747 54.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 38 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 14 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 29 0.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 5 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 751 23.5%
• 18–24 223 7.0%
• 25–44 824 25.8%
• 45–64 782 24.5%
• 65 and over 611 19.1%

Median household income

$75,021

90% interval $66,036–$84,006

−$4,702 vs TX · 64th of 254

Below poverty line

13.4%

90% interval 9.9%–16.9%

+0.0 pp vs TX · 170th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

1.8%

−2.56 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.6B

0.27% of state

Avg. annual pay

$94,058

Establishments

127

• Construction 2,105 53.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 464 11.9%
• Natural resources & mining 438 11.2%
• Professional & business services 99 2.5%
• Financial activities 30 0.8%
• Leisure & hospitality 23 0.6%

The sectors listed cover 80.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

77.2%

+14.6 pp vs TX · 90th of 254

Median gross rent

$720

−$683 vs TX · 220th of 254

Owner-occupied

1,050

Renter-occupied

310

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 77% 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.

• Compressed wage spread

  Highest-paid sector pays only 1.7× the lowest ($137,517 vs $80,856/yr), a relatively flat local wage distribution.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 31 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 1,149 88.2%
• Democratic 146 11.2%
• Other / third-party 8 0.6%

• Spanish 1,212 39.3%

Households

1,360

Family households

972

71.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

278

28.6% of families

Single-mother families

83

8.5% of families

Veterans

87

3.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 1,522 46.0%
• Catholic 1,216 36.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 310 9.4%
• Mainline Protestant 117 3.5%

Health insured

81.2%

±7.1 pp

Uninsured

18.8%

±7.1 pp

79th of 254

With a disability

11.0%

±2.7 pp

229th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

8.7%

±4.4 pp — too imprecise at this sample size to compare

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

16.9%

90% interval 15.1%–18.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

112th 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

Big Lake, Ozona, Rankin, Sonora

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

122.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3