Wood County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 37,833 80.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5,433 11.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,761 3.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 256 0.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,464 3.1%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 9 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 5 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 200 0.4%

• Under 18 8,752 18.6%
• 18–24 3,631 7.7%
• 25–44 9,399 20.0%
• 45–64 12,225 26.0%
• 65 and over 12,954 27.6%

Median household income

$63,102

90% interval $57,086–$69,118

−$16,621 vs TX · 147th of 254

Below poverty line

13.7%

90% interval 11.1%–16.3%

+0.3 pp vs TX · 158th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.9%

+0.62 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.1B

0.08% of state

Avg. annual pay

$49,025

Establishments

950

• Education & health services 3,222 30.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,103 19.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,257 11.7%
• Manufacturing 1,202 11.2%
• Other services 389 3.6%
• Financial activities 375 3.5%
• Public administration 364 3.4%
• Professional & business services 330 3.1%

The sectors listed cover 86.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

80.1%

+17.5 pp vs TX · 48th of 254

Median gross rent

$862

−$541 vs TX · 166th of 254

Owner-occupied

14,965

Renter-occupied

3,707

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $69,756/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $20,730/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 11 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 20,621 84.6%
• Democratic 3,618 14.8%
• Other / third-party 142 0.6%

• Spanish 2,786 6.2%
• German or other West Germanic 155 0.3%
• Arabic 120 0.3%
• Vietnamese 55 0.1%
• Chinese 46 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 27 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 26 0.1%
• Tagalog 25 0.1%
• Korean 17 0.0%

Households

18,672

Family households

12,458

66.7% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,767

22.2% of families

Single-mother families

797

6.4% of families

Veterans

4,402

11.5% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 21,376 47.7%
• Black Protestant 3,956 8.8%
• Catholic 2,474 5.5%
• Mainline Protestant 2,320 5.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 759 1.7%

Health insured

82.9%

±2 pp

Uninsured

17.1%

±2 pp

117th of 254

With a disability

22.0%

±1.6 pp

36th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

21.5%

±2.3 pp

−12.3 pp vs TX · 111th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

24.0%

90% interval 22.1%–25.9% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

402nd 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

Quitman

Traffic fatalities

8

20.94 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8