Wichita County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 81,302 62.5%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 26,848 20.7%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,241 10.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,944 2.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,833 3.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 417 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 149 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 262 0.2%

• Under 18 29,645 22.8%
• 18–24 16,049 12.3%
• 25–44 35,549 27.3%
• 45–64 28,747 22.1%
• 65 and over 20,006 15.4%

Median household income

$65,480

90% interval $62,433–$68,527

−$14,243 vs TX · 127th of 254

Below poverty line

14.4%

90% interval 11.7%–17.1%

+1.0 pp vs TX · 140th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

−0.27 pp vs. state

County GDP

$7.7B

0.28% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,074

Establishments

3,269

• Education & health services 14,547 27.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 10,764 20.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 6,248 11.8%
• Manufacturing 4,936 9.4%
• Professional & business services 3,529 6.7%
• Public administration 2,434 4.6%
• Financial activities 2,325 4.4%
• Construction 2,007 3.8%
• Other services 1,709 3.2%
• Natural resources & mining 624 1.2%
• Information 569 1.1%
• Unclassified 51 0.1%

The sectors listed cover 94.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

61.4%

−1.2 pp vs TX · 231st of 254

Median gross rent

$1,006

−$397 vs TX · 103rd of 254

Owner-occupied

30,106

Renter-occupied

18,911

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 60% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $92,794/yr) pays 4.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,807/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 31,818 71.5%
• Democratic 12,237 27.5%
• Other / third-party 442 1.0%

• Spanish 11,826 9.7%
• Vietnamese 568 0.5%
• Tagalog 367 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 364 0.3%
• Arabic 282 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 217 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 178 0.1%
• Korean 132 0.1%
• Chinese 131 0.1%

Households

49,017

Family households

30,576

62.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

8,000

26.2% of families

Single-mother families

3,744

12.2% of families

Veterans

10,435

11% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 54,916 42.5%
• Catholic 22,376 17.3%
• Mainline Protestant 5,469 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,386 2.6%
• Black Protestant 2,152 1.7%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

84.4%

±1 pp

Uninsured

15.6%

±1 pp

153rd of 254

With a disability

16.0%

±0.8 pp

122nd of 254

Bachelor's or higher

25.1%

±1.3 pp

−8.7 pp vs TX · 72nd of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

17.7%

90% interval 16.3%–19.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

30th District Court

Judges

3 (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

Wichita Falls

Traffic fatalities

9

8.97 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

9