Jury Pool Profile

Washington County, Texas

Republican +55 (2024)

Population: 36,156
Median household income: $75,085
Unemployment: 3.9%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 24,952 69.0%
Black or African American alone 5,486 15.2%
Asian alone 493 1.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 145 0.4%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 1,028 2.8%
Two or more races 4,052 11.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,557 18.1%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.9

Under 18 7,784 21.5%
18–24 3,777 10.4%
25–44 7,671 21.2%
45–64 8,873 24.5%
65 and over 8,051 22.3%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.9%; -0.34 pp vs. state
County GDP: $3.0B; 0.11% of state
Avg. annual pay: $50,773
Establishments: 1,088

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 3,855 23.2%
Education & health services 3,263 19.6%
Manufacturing 2,760 16.6%
Leisure & hospitality 1,765 10.6%
Financial activities 1,050 6.3%
Construction 876 5.3%
Professional & business services 855 5.1%
Public administration 409 2.5%
Natural resources & mining 278 1.7%
Other services 252 1.5%
Information 82 0.5%
Unclassified 18 0.1%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 73.1%
Median gross rent: $1,091
Owner-occupied: 11,171
Renter-occupied: 4,106

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 18,208 votes cast

Republican 14,020 77.0%
Democratic 4,058 22.3%
Other / third-party 130 0.7%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

86.4% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,855 11.2%
Slavic languages 209 0.6%
Tagalog 201 0.6%
Korean 171 0.5%
German 75 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 73 0.2%
Other Indo-European 34 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 22 0.1%
Chinese 19 0.1%
Other 5 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 15,277
Family households: 9,742; 63.8% of households
Married w/ children: 7,753
Single-mother households: 551
Veterans: 2,054; 7.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

71.4% overall adherence rate

Catholic 9,219 25.7%
Evangelical Protestant 7,420 20.7%
Mainline Protestant 7,209 20.1%
Black Protestant 920 2.6%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 813 2.3%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 84.9%
With a disability: 14.1%
Bachelor's or higher: 31.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 21st 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: Bastrop, Brenham, Caldwell, Giddings

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 6; 21.15 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 6

NHTSA FARS 2023