Jury Pool Profile

Uvalde County, Texas

Republican +34 (2024)

Population: 24,810
Median household income: $57,849
Unemployment: 4.4%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 16,673 67.2%
Black or African American alone 354 1.4%
Asian alone 431 1.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 316 1.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 2,788 11.2%
Two or more races 4,248 17.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 17,548 70.7%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 34.6

Under 18 6,492 26.2%
18–24 2,810 11.3%
25–44 6,484 26.1%
45–64 4,952 20.0%
65 and over 4,072 16.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.4%; +0.16 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.3B; 0.05% of state
Avg. annual pay: $47,006
Establishments: 703

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,030 31.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,336 24.0%
Leisure & hospitality 1,199 12.3%
Public administration 835 8.6%
Professional & business services 538 5.5%
Natural resources & mining 497 5.1%
Financial activities 315 3.2%
Construction 290 3.0%
Other services 245 2.5%
Manufacturing 221 2.3%
Information 71 0.7%
Unclassified 4 0.0%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 66.5%
Median gross rent: $966
Owner-occupied: 5,601
Renter-occupied: 2,821

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 9,769 votes cast

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

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

51.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 10,972 47.6%
Other Asian/Pacific 177 0.8%
Other 30 0.1%
Other Indo-European 26 0.1%
German 11 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 8,422
Family households: 5,757; 68.4% of households
Married w/ children: 4,008
Single-mother households: 732
Veterans: 1,385; 7.6% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

57.1% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 79.9%
With a disability: 20.3%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 5; 27.3 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023