Waller County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 23,476 38.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20,629 33.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 14,373 23.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,239 2.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,630 2.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 39 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 17 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 149 0.2%

• Under 18 14,610 23.7%
• 18–24 11,404 18.5%
• 25–44 15,875 25.8%
• 45–64 12,520 20.3%
• 65 and over 7,143 11.6%

Median household income

$83,520

90% interval $76,330–$90,710

+$3,797 vs TX · 39th of 254

Below poverty line

13.6%

90% interval 11.3%–15.9%

+0.2 pp vs TX · 161st of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.5%

+1.19 pp vs. state

County GDP

$6.2B

0.22% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,956

Establishments

1,174

• Trade, transportation & utilities 9,599 34.3%
• Manufacturing 5,036 18.0%
• Education & health services 3,477 12.4%
• Construction 1,838 6.6%
• Professional & business services 1,724 6.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,655 5.9%
• Natural resources & mining 655 2.3%
• Public administration 579 2.1%
• Financial activities 471 1.7%

The sectors listed cover 89.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

72.0%

+9.4 pp vs TX · 153rd of 254

Median gross rent

$1,169

−$234 vs TX · 48th of 254

Owner-occupied

13,209

Renter-occupied

5,133

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $93,543/yr) pays 3.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $31,625/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 24 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 17,077 62.0%
• Democratic 10,183 37.0%
• Other / third-party 285 1.0%

• Spanish 14,473 25.1%
• Vietnamese 346 0.6%
• Arabic 216 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 184 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 93 0.2%
• Chinese 89 0.2%
• Korean 40 0.1%
• Tagalog 38 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 16 0.0%

Households

18,342

Family households

13,996

76.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,237

30.3% of families

Single-mother families

1,639

11.7% of families

Veterans

2,260

4.8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 6,916 12.2%
• Catholic 6,689 11.8%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,279 4.0%
• Black Protestant 1,748 3.1%
• Mainline Protestant 1,436 2.5%

Health insured

79.9%

±2.3 pp

Uninsured

20.1%

±2.3 pp

57th of 254

With a disability

10.7%

±1.3 pp

234th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

27.9%

±2.6 pp

−5.9 pp vs TX · 50th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

20.9%

90% interval 19.3%–22.5% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

506th 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

Hempstead

Traffic fatalities

11

23.43 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9