Jury Pool Profile

Wise County, Texas

Republican +70 (2024)

Population: 72,359
Median household income: $89,897
Unemployment: 3.7%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 61,099 84.4%
Black or African American alone 1,094 1.5%
Asian alone 506 0.7%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 367 0.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 20 0.0%
Some other race alone 4,071 5.6%
Two or more races 5,202 7.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,878 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 40

Under 18 17,836 24.6%
18–24 5,538 7.7%
25–44 18,311 25.3%
45–64 19,523 27.0%
65 and over 11,151 15.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.7%; -0.5 pp vs. state
County GDP: $4.2B; 0.15% of state
Avg. annual pay: $59,376
Establishments: 1,654

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

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 4,499 21.2%
Education & health services 4,435 20.9%
Manufacturing 2,751 13.0%
Construction 2,336 11.0%
Leisure & hospitality 2,169 10.2%
Natural resources & mining 1,694 8.0%
Professional & business services 1,422 6.7%
Public administration 752 3.5%
Financial activities 497 2.3%
Other services 374 1.8%
Information 76 0.4%
Unclassified 33 0.2%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 82.5%
Median gross rent: $1,239
Owner-occupied: 20,289
Renter-occupied: 4,292

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 38,230 votes cast

Republican 32,385 84.7%
Democratic 5,605 14.7%
Other / third-party 240 0.6%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

83.6% speak only English at home

Spanish 10,237 15.0%
Other Indo-European 226 0.3%
Other Asian/Pacific 188 0.3%
Slavic languages 130 0.2%
German 114 0.2%
Chinese 81 0.1%
French (incl. Cajun) 73 0.1%
Vietnamese 48 0.1%
Tagalog 37 0.1%
Arabic 11 0.0%
Other 3 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 24,581
Family households: 18,992; 77.3% of households
Married w/ children: 15,300
Single-mother households: 1,058
Veterans: 4,388; 8% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

46.1% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 23,815 34.7%
Catholic 4,971 7.2%
Mainline Protestant 1,692 2.5%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,145 1.7%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 85.0%
With a disability: 15.4%
Bachelor's or higher: 20.6%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 271st 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: Decatur, Jacksboro

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 22; 40.35 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 20

NHTSA FARS 2023