Jury Pool Profile

Wheeler County, Texas

Republican +85 (2024)

Population: 4,902
Median household income: $67,964
Unemployment: 3.3%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 4,017 81.9%
Black or African American alone 81 1.7%
Asian alone 78 1.6%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 134 2.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 288 5.9%
Two or more races 304 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,224 25.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40.6

Under 18 1,199 24.5%
18–24 331 6.8%
25–44 1,192 24.3%
45–64 1,170 23.9%
65 and over 1,010 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.3%; -0.94 pp vs. state
County GDP: $394.2M; 0.01% of state
Avg. annual pay: $45,382
Establishments: 200

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Education & health services 523 30.4%
Trade, transportation & utilities 400 23.3%
Leisure & hospitality 268 15.6%
Natural resources & mining 175 10.2%
Public administration 99 5.8%
Professional & business services 94 5.5%
Financial activities 42 2.4%
Construction 35 2.0%
Other services 17 1.0%
Manufacturing 13 0.8%
Information 9 0.5%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 78.5%
Median gross rent: $995
Owner-occupied: 1,451
Renter-occupied: 398

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,272 votes cast

Republican 2,093 92.1%
Democratic 169 7.4%
Other / third-party 10 0.4%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

81.8% speak only English at home

Spanish 786 16.8%
Tagalog 21 0.5%
Arabic 12 0.3%
German 11 0.2%
Other Indo-European 10 0.2%
Other Asian/Pacific 8 0.2%
Other 2 0.0%
Korean 1 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 1,849
Family households: 1,390; 75.2% of households
Married w/ children: 1,011
Single-mother households: 137
Veterans: 173; 4.7% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

36.5% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 1,085 21.7%
Mainline Protestant 601 12.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 76 1.5%
Catholic 61 1.2%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 80.4%
With a disability: 17.0%
Bachelor's or higher: 19.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 31st 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: Canadian, Lipscomb, Miami, Pampa, Wheeler

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 5; 135.03 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 5

NHTSA FARS 2023