Jury Pool Profile

Van Zandt County, Texas

Republican +75 (2024)

Population: 61,323
Median household income: $68,274
Unemployment: 4.1%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 54,161 88.3%
Black or African American alone 1,667 2.7%
Asian alone 282 0.5%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 191 0.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 8 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,260 2.1%
Two or more races 3,754 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7,835 12.8%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 42.1

Under 18 14,114 23.0%
18–24 4,582 7.5%
25–44 13,973 22.8%
45–64 16,274 26.5%
65 and over 12,380 20.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.1%; -0.13 pp vs. state
County GDP: $1.9B; 0.07% of state
Avg. annual pay: $45,624
Establishments: 1,142

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 3,086 24.1%
Trade, transportation & utilities 2,822 22.0%
Leisure & hospitality 1,899 14.8%
Manufacturing 1,198 9.3%
Construction 1,109 8.7%
Professional & business services 769 6.0%
Natural resources & mining 485 3.8%
Public administration 458 3.6%
Financial activities 423 3.3%
Other services 309 2.4%
Information 130 1.0%
Unclassified 12 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 80.9%
Median gross rent: $1,010
Owner-occupied: 18,238
Renter-occupied: 4,317

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 27,935 votes cast

Republican 24,351 87.2%
Democratic 3,450 12.4%
Other / third-party 134 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

91.3% speak only English at home

Spanish 4,642 8.0%
German 121 0.2%
French (incl. Cajun) 97 0.2%
Other Indo-European 64 0.1%
Chinese 38 0.1%
Slavic languages 29 0.1%
Vietnamese 25 0.0%
Other Asian/Pacific 21 0.0%
Tagalog 11 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 22,555
Family households: 16,540; 73.3% of households
Married w/ children: 12,714
Single-mother households: 1,109
Veterans: 4,274; 9.1% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

42.6% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 19,239 32.3%
Mainline Protestant 3,079 5.2%
Catholic 1,604 2.7%
Black Protestant 912 1.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 549 0.9%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 81.8%
With a disability: 15.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 18.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 294th 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: Canton

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 20; 42.36 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 18

NHTSA FARS 2023