Texas's 17th congressional district

Texas's 17th congressional district
Texas's 17th congressional district – since January 3, 2023.
Representative	Pete Sessions R–Waco
Distribution	75.28% urban[1] 24.72% rural
Population (2022)	781,996[2]
Median household income	$63,266[3]
Ethnicity	53.0% White 25.3% Hispanic 15.0% Black 3.4% Two or more races 2.5% Asian 0.8% other
Cook PVI	R+14[4]

Texas's 17th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes a strip of Central Texas and Deep East Texas stretching from Nacogdoches to Waco and Round Rock, including former President George W. Bush's McLennan County ranch.^[5][6] The district is currently represented by Republican Pete Sessions.

From 2005 to 2013, it was an oblong district stretching from south of Tarrant County to Grimes County in the southeast. The 2012 redistricting made its area more square, removing the northern and southeastern portions, adding areas southwest into the northern Austin suburbs and east into Freestone and Leon counties. The district included two major universities, Texas A&M University in College Station and Baylor University in Waco.

Before 2005, the district stretched from the Abilene area to the outer western fringes of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.