Jury Pool Profile

Waller County, Texas

Republican +25 (2024)

Population: 59,455
Median household income: $76,135
Unemployment: 5.2%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 27,731 46.6%
Black or African American alone 14,046 23.6%
Asian alone 996 1.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 818 1.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 56 0.1%
Some other race alone 8,595 14.5%
Two or more races 7,213 12.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,593 33.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 30.8

Under 18 14,126 23.8%
18–24 11,069 18.6%
25–44 15,207 25.6%
45–64 12,261 20.6%
65 and over 6,792 11.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 5.2%; +0.95 pp vs. state
County GDP: $6.2B; 0.22% of state
Avg. annual pay: $61,149
Establishments: 1,144

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 9,627 36.1%
Manufacturing 4,507 16.9%
Education & health services 3,321 12.4%
Construction 1,712 6.4%
Leisure & hospitality 1,636 6.1%
Professional & business services 1,605 6.0%
Public administration 560 2.1%
Natural resources & mining 533 2.0%
Financial activities 429 1.6%
Other services 363 1.4%
Information 22 0.1%
Unclassified 17 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 70.5%
Median gross rent: $1,210
Owner-occupied: 12,685
Renter-occupied: 5,296

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 27,545 votes cast

Republican 17,077 62.0%
Democratic 10,183 37.0%
Other / third-party 285 1.0%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

73.5% speak only English at home

Spanish 13,504 24.2%
Other Indo-European 284 0.5%
Vietnamese 280 0.5%
Arabic 190 0.3%
French (incl. Cajun) 137 0.2%
German 123 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 114 0.2%
Korean 50 0.1%
Other 48 0.1%
Tagalog 26 0.0%
Slavic languages 19 0.0%
Chinese 14 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 17,981
Family households: 13,614; 75.7% of households
Married w/ children: 9,913
Single-mother households: 1,514
Veterans: 2,206; 4.9% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

33.6% overall adherence rate

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%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 79.4%
With a disability: 10.9%
Bachelor's or higher: 26.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

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

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 15; 33.09 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 13

NHTSA FARS 2023