Val Verde County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 7,338 15.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 38,761 81.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 572 1.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 286 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 646 1.4%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 38 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 8 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 92 0.2%

• Under 18 13,288 27.8%
• 18–24 5,389 11.3%
• 25–44 12,919 27.1%
• 45–64 9,498 19.9%
• 65 and over 6,647 13.9%

Median household income

$61,751

90% interval $56,837–$66,665

−$17,972 vs TX · 161st of 254

Below poverty line

18.1%

90% interval 14.4%–21.8%

+4.7 pp vs TX · 60th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.6%

+1.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.5B

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$50,136

Establishments

913

• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,458 18.8%
• Education & health services 3,279 17.9%
• Public administration 2,761 15.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,926 10.5%
• Manufacturing 1,659 9.0%
• Professional & business services 1,658 9.0%
• Financial activities 597 3.3%
• Construction 361 2.0%
• Other services 322 1.8%
• Information 97 0.5%
• Natural resources & mining 75 0.4%
• Unclassified 14 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 88.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

69.1%

+6.5 pp vs TX · 183rd of 254

Median gross rent

$994

−$409 vs TX · 108th of 254

Owner-occupied

11,608

Renter-occupied

5,202

• Diversified

  Top three sectors employ 52% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Public administration, $94,030/yr) pays 4.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,831/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 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 9,162 62.8%
• Democratic 5,282 36.2%
• Other / third-party 134 0.9%

• Spanish 27,707 62.8%
• German or other West Germanic 165 0.4%
• Korean 85 0.2%
• Tagalog 52 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 41 0.1%
• Chinese 6 0.0%

Households

16,810

Family households

12,170

72.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,710

30.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,449

11.9% of families

Veterans

3,089

9.3% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 10,524 22.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 6,780 14.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,547 3.3%
• Mainline Protestant 723 1.5%
• Black Protestant 200 0.4%

Health insured

82.5%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

17.5%

±2.3 pp

111th of 254

With a disability

16.0%

±1.6 pp

121st of 254

Bachelor's or higher

22.5%

±2.5 pp

−11.3 pp vs TX · 95th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.7%

90% interval 18.9%–22.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

63rd 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

Brackettville, Del Rio, Sanderson

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

14.51 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3