Campaign Design Activity
By Alexa Ramirez & Hamin Kim
Category
Category
Your District
U.S. Avg.
Population
Median Age
35
35.3
Percentage under 18 (subtract over 18 % from 100)
24%
23.7%
Percentage over 65
9%
13.3%
Percentage White (non-Hispanic)
68%
78.1%
Percentage Black
11%
13.1%
Percentage Hispanic
23%
16.7%
Family Households
71.6%
Housing
Percentage that own their home (“owner occupied housing”)
48%
66.1%
Percentage that rent their home (“renter occupied housing”)
52%
33.8%
Education
Percentage that earned a high school diploma
89%
85.4%
Percentage that earned a bachelor’s degree
42%
28.2%
Economic
Median household income
$61,682
$52,762
Percentage of individuals below the poverty level
9%
14.3%
Social
Foreign born
22%
12.9%
Language other than English
19.7%
Industry (click “show more” by Economics)
Manufacturing
8%
10.8%
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations
0.5%
1.9%
Education, healthcare, and social assistance
16%
22.5%
Construction
4%
10.8%
Retail
12%
11.5%
Professional and Management
17%
10.5%
Enterprising Proffesionals
- Young, educated, & working professionals
- Technology at fingertips
- Willing to travel
Splendors in Suburbia
- Successful & married without children
- Well educated & employed
- Home improvers
- Travels for business and travel
Young & Restless
- Likes change
- Rents apartments and houses
- Highest labor forces
- Internet as an advantage
- Loves entertainment
Same-sex Marriage
Rationale: The district is primarily Republican, and they do not believe in same-sex marriage.
Religion
Plank: "No one should 'suffer on account of his religious opinion or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion'."
Gun Control
Rationale: In certain parts of the district there is a high crime rate. And there are many hunters overall in Texas.
Legal Immigration
Rationale: With Texas being a neighbor to Mexico, the district is concerned about the safety of their families from drug cartels and illegal immigrants.