Winkler County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,353 31.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,657 62.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 294 3.9%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 41 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 44 0.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 4 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 61 0.8%

• Under 18 2,180 29.2%
• 18–24 606 8.1%
• 25–44 2,160 29.0%
• 45–64 1,575 21.1%
• 65 and over 933 12.5%

Median household income

$73,437

90% interval $64,701–$82,173

−$6,286 vs TX · 69th of 254

Below poverty line

14.3%

90% interval 11.0%–17.6%

+0.9 pp vs TX · 146th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.4%

−0.93 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.3B

0.08% of state

Avg. annual pay

$94,640

Establishments

231

• Natural resources & mining 1,545 36.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 1,067 25.3%
• Education & health services 434 10.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 315 7.5%
• Financial activities 201 4.8%
• Public administration 167 4.0%
• Professional & business services 151 3.6%
• Other services 61 1.4%

The sectors listed cover 93.3% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

86.0%

+23.4 pp vs TX · 5th of 254

Median gross rent

$1,037

−$366 vs TX · 90th of 254

Owner-occupied

2,375

Renter-occupied

387

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $126,249/yr) pays 4.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,532/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 18 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 1,646 85.2%
• Democratic 283 14.6%
• Other / third-party 3 0.2%

• Spanish 3,289 47.4%
• Vietnamese 31 0.4%

Households

2,762

Family households

2,105

76.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

753

35.8% of families

Single-mother families

177

8.4% of families

Veterans

205

3.9% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 2,777 35.6%
• Catholic 1,000 12.8%
• Black Protestant 150 1.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 111 1.4%

Health insured

81.0%

±6.7 pp

Uninsured

19.0%

±6.7 pp

73rd of 254

With a disability

11.4%

±2.6 pp

220th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

10.6%

±3.1 pp

−23.2 pp vs TX · 244th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

19.2%

90% interval 17.4%–21.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

109th 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

Andrews, Crane, Kermit

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

94.8 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4