Uvalde County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 6,360 25.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17,635 70.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 80 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 267 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 377 1.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 72 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 90 0.4%

• Under 18 6,595 26.5%
• 18–24 2,725 11.0%
• 25–44 6,398 25.7%
• 45–64 5,065 20.4%
• 65 and over 4,098 16.5%

Median household income

$53,955

90% interval $49,588–$58,322

−$25,768 vs TX · 219th of 254

Below poverty line

19.5%

90% interval 14.9%–24.1%

+6.1 pp vs TX · 42nd of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.31 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.3B

0.05% of state

Avg. annual pay

$48,734

Establishments

709

• Education & health services 2,985 30.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,235 22.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,265 13.0%
• Public administration 689 7.1%
• Professional & business services 649 6.7%
• Natural resources & mining 480 4.9%
• Financial activities 312 3.2%
• Construction 306 3.1%
• Other services 267 2.7%
• Manufacturing 193 2.0%
• Information 68 0.7%
• Unclassified 3 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 97.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.6%

+8.0 pp vs TX · 172nd of 254

Median gross rent

$981

−$422 vs TX · 115th of 254

Owner-occupied

5,939

Renter-occupied

2,478

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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 (Public administration, $82,188/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,530/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 6,482 66.4%
• Democratic 3,218 32.9%
• Other / third-party 69 0.7%

• Spanish 11,187 48.5%
• Tagalog 38 0.2%
• Vietnamese 20 0.1%
• German or other West Germanic 15 0.1%

Households

8,417

Family households

5,577

66.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,714

30.7% of families

Single-mother families

818

14.7% of families

Veterans

1,246

6.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,051 24.6%
• Catholic 5,284 21.5%
• Mainline Protestant 1,840 7.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 709 2.9%
• Black Protestant 150 0.6%

Health insured

81.3%

±3.2 pp

Uninsured

18.7%

±3.2 pp

82nd of 254

With a disability

18.6%

±2.8 pp

72nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

19.8%

±3 pp

−14.0 pp vs TX · 137th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

22.3%

90% interval 20.3%–24.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

38th 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

Hondo, Leakey, Uvalde

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

27.34 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5