Jury Pool Profile
Wilson County, Texas
Republican +54 (2024)
- Population
- 51,501
- Median household income
- $92,461
- Unemployment
- 3.8%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 37,157 72.1%
- Black or African American alone 912 1.8%
- Asian alone 267 0.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 204 0.4%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
- Some other race alone 2,828 5.5%
- Two or more races 10,133 19.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20,354 39.5%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.1
- Under 18 12,118 23.5%
- 18–24 4,030 7.8%
- 25–44 12,538 24.3%
- 45–64 14,227 27.6%
- 65 and over 8,588 16.7%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.8%
- -0.46 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.7B
- 0.06% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $51,619
- Establishments
- 918
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 2,738 28.6%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,985 20.7%
- Construction 928 9.7%
- Leisure & hospitality 861 9.0%
- Natural resources & mining 683 7.1%
- Professional & business services 681 7.1%
- Manufacturing 621 6.5%
- Public administration 408 4.3%
- Financial activities 251 2.6%
- Other services 238 2.5%
- Information 49 0.5%
- Unclassified 4 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 85.7%
- Median gross rent
- $1,069
- Owner-occupied
- 15,240
- Renter-occupied
- 2,545
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 27,270 votes cast
- Republican 20,894 76.6%
- Democratic 6,247 22.9%
- Other / third-party 129 0.5%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
77.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 10,405 21.4%
- Slavic languages 335 0.7%
- Vietnamese 93 0.2%
- German 54 0.1%
- Other Asian/Pacific 53 0.1%
- Korean 52 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 41 0.1%
- Tagalog 34 0.1%
- Other 14 0.0%
- Chinese 12 0.0%
- French (incl. Cajun) 10 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 17,785
- Family households
- 14,052
- 79.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 11,971
- Single-mother households
- 639
- Veterans
- 4,800
- 12.2% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
40.5% overall adherence rate
- Catholic 13,602 27.3%
- Evangelical Protestant 4,711 9.5%
- Mainline Protestant 1,377 2.8%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 473 1.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.7%
- With a disability
- 13.8%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 26.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 81st 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
- Cotulla, Floresville, Jourdanton, Karnes City, Pearsall
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 6
- 15.23 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 6
NHTSA FARS 2023