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Jury Pool Profile

Victoria County, Texas

Republican +42.6 (2024)
County seat
Victoria
Judicial district
24th District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate)
92,656
Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 91,413.

At a glance

Victoria County is a 92,656-person venue. The county population is 57% White and 6% Black (Census race-alone categories). 48% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 42.4%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $67,704, $12,019 below the TX state median of $79,723; 19.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 23.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest employment sector is Education & health services, at 28.0% of covered employment, average pay $52,866/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.35%, above the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 68% to 71% of the vote across the three.

Population
91,413
Median household income
$70,896
Unemployment
4.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This county: 57% / 6%.

Victoria County has a population of 91,413, with a median age of 36.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 56.6%; Black residents 5.9%. Independently, 48.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $67,704; 19.9% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 14.3% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity
  • White (non-Hispanic) 38,746 42.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 43,995 48.1%
  • Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 5,026 5.5%
  • Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,114 1.2%
  • Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,971 2.2%
  • American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 100 0.1%
  • Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 67 0.1%
  • Some other race (non-Hispanic) 394 0.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 36.7

  • Under 18 22,924 25.1%
  • 18–24 8,330 9.1%
  • 25–44 23,812 26.0%
  • 45–64 20,722 22.7%
  • 65 and over 15,625 17.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty
Median household income
$67,704
90% interval $62,545–$72,863
−$12,019 vs TX · 107th of 254
Below poverty line
14.3%
90% interval 11.6%–17.0%
+0.9 pp vs TX · 145th of 254

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by healthcare & education and trade & transportation

Largest sector in BLS QCEW: Education & health services, 10,325 jobs; Trade, transportation & utilities, 9,561, is within 20% of it.

Education & health services is the largest employment sector at 28.0% of covered employment, followed by Trade, transportation & utilities at 25.9%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 4.35%, above the Texas state average.

Local economy
Unemployment (12-mo)
4.3%
+0.03 pp vs. state
County GDP
$6.2B
0.22% of state
Avg. annual pay
$56,948
Establishments
2,399

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

  • Education & health services 10,325 28.0%
  • Trade, transportation & utilities 9,561 25.9%
  • Leisure & hospitality 4,403 11.9%
  • Professional & business services 2,026 5.5%
  • Construction 1,992 5.4%
  • Natural resources & mining 1,844 5.0%
  • Manufacturing 1,751 4.8%
  • Financial activities 1,648 4.5%
  • Public administration 1,340 3.6%
  • Other services 1,321 3.6%
  • Information 243 0.7%
  • Unclassified 44 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 99.0% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing
Home ownership
65.3%
+2.7 pp vs TX · 212th of 254
Median gross rent
$1,157
−$246 vs TX · 51st of 254
Owner-occupied
22,750
Renter-occupied
12,105

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads
  • Concentrated

    Top three sectors employ 66% 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.

  • Wide wage spread

    Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $111,012/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,677/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

  • Mixed business scale

    Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 69%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Victoria County was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 71.0% in 2024, 68.3% in 2020, 68.5% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 35,239 votes cast

  • Republican
  • Democratic
Presidential vote share by year
YearRepublicanDemocratic
201668.5%28.5%
202068.3%30.4%
202471.0%28.4%
  • Republican 25,010 71.0%
  • Democratic 9,998 28.4%
  • Other / third-party 231 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, linguistically diverse

Family households are 67% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 23.7% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

23.7% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese. Veterans account for 6.5% of the adult civilian population (4,409 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

76.3% speak only English at home

  • Spanish 18,918 22.1%
  • Chinese 270 0.3%
  • Vietnamese 220 0.3%
  • German or other West Germanic 158 0.2%
  • Tagalog 102 0.1%
  • Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 69 0.1%
  • Arabic 65 0.1%
  • French, Haitian, or Cajun 17 0.0%
  • Korean 11 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition
Households
34,855
Family households
23,281
66.8% of households
Married couples w/ children
6,212
26.7% of families
Single-mother families
2,373
10.2% of families
Veterans
4,409
6.5% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

56.4% overall adherence rate

  • Catholic 24,035 26.3%
  • Evangelical Protestant 20,944 22.9%
  • Mainline Protestant 3,546 3.9%
  • Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,646 1.8%
  • Black Protestant 1,260 1.4%
  • Orthodox 55 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education
Health insured
82.8%
±2.4 pp
Uninsured
17.2%
±2.4 pp
115th of 254
With a disability
16.1%
±1.1 pp
119th of 254
Bachelor's or higher
19.9%
±1.5 pp
−13.9 pp vs TX · 136th of 254
Uninsured, under 65 (2024)
19.9%
90% interval 18.2%–21.6% · Census SAHIE

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

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Court infrastructure
Trial court
24th 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
Cuero, Edna, Goliad, Port Lavaca, Refugio, Victoria

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Court reference
Traffic safety context

Victoria totals, 2024 — the per-100k rate is based on 13 recorded deaths, too few to be statistically reliable

Traffic fatalities
13
18.98 per 100k adults (18+)
Fatal crashes
12

NHTSA FARS 2024

About this profile

This profile aggregates publicly available U.S. government statistics for Victoria County, Texas to give trial attorneys venue context for jury selection. It describes the general population of the county, not the qualified jury wheel, and is not legal advice or a substitute for the court's juror records.

Sources as of: U.S. Census ACS 2024 · U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025 · Election results 2024 · NHTSA FARS 2024 · US Religion Census 2020.

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