Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupBacon CountyGeorgiaUnited States
English10.2%10.3%9.5%
Irish9.4%6.9%9.4%
American8.9%7.6%5.3%
German3.8%6.3%12.5%
Scottish3.1%1.7%1.3%
Norwegian0.7%——
Scotch-Irish0.4%——
Portuguese0.2%——
African American†12.9%27.4%9.9%
Jamaican0.2%0.7%0.4%
West Indian0.2%——
Mexican7.4%5.5%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.6%1.2%1.8%
Honduran0.3%0.4%0.3%
Spaniard0.2%——
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Bacon County
Georgia
United States
Median age
40.6
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
8.9%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.9%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Bacon County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$44,694
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
24.5%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
10.4%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Bacon County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.0%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
6.5%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Bacon County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
0.9%
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
40.3%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.9%
49.3%
51.5%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Bacon County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
1 precincts · 4,839 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Bacon County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -DOUGLASDOUGLAS
645
4,186
8
4,839
13.3%
86.5%
R+73.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1916–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1916
+72.4%
1920
+16.7%
1924
+83.6%
1928
+20.1%
1932
+95.5%
1936
+87.5%
1940
+78.4%
1944
+55.2%
1948
+55.1%
1952
+47.2%
1956
+72.2%
1960
+33.7%
1964
−28.9%
1968
−11.0%
1972
−80.4%
1976
+60.3%
1980
+6.3%
1984
−27.5%
1988
−28.6%
1992
+3.7%
1996
−6.6%
2000
−35.2%
2004
−50.7%
2008
−57.7%
2012
−58.5%
2016
−68.4%
2020
−72.7%
2024
−73.2%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
13.3%Harris645
86.5%Trump4,186
0.1%Oliver6
R+73.2
R+0.5
R+71.7
4,839
R
13.4%Biden625
86.1%Trump4,018
0.5%Jorgensen25
R+72.7
R+4.3
R+77.1
4,668
R
15.1%Clinton608
83.5%Trump3,364
1.2%Johnson47
R+68.4
R+9.9
R+70.5
4,029
R
20.1%Obama791
78.6%Romney3,093
1.3%
R+58.5
R+0.8
R+62.3
3,936
R
20.7%Obama817
78.4%McCain3,089
0.8%
R+57.7
R+7.0
R+65.0
3,938
R
24.5%Kerry930
75.2%Bush2,853
0.2%
R+50.7
R+15.5
R+48.3
3,792
R
31.9%Gore956
67.1%Bush2,010
0.1%Nader2
R+35.2
R+28.6
R+35.7
2,995
R
40.5%Clinton1,360
47.1%Dole1,580
12.0%Perot402
R+6.6
R+10.2
R+15.1
3,357
D
42.7%Clinton1,423
39.0%Bush1,301
18.1%Perot604
D+3.7
D+32.2
R+1.9
3,335
R
35.6%Dukakis780
64.1%Bush1,407
0.3%
R+28.6
R+1.0
R+20.9
2,194
R
36.2%Mondale1,010
63.8%Reagan1,778
0.0%
R+27.5
R+33.8
R+9.3
2,788
D
52.2%Carter1,622
45.9%Reagan1,427
1.8%
D+6.3
R+54.0
D+16.0
3,106
D
80.1%Carter2,395
19.9%Ford594
0.0%
D+60.3
D+140.7
D+58.2
2,989
R
9.8%McGovern192
90.2%Nixon1,771
0.0%
R+80.4
R+69.5
R+57.3
1,963
O
10.0%Humphrey279
20.9%Nixon586
69.1%
Wallace +48.2
D+17.9
R+10.3
2,800
R
35.6%Johnson1,179
64.4%Goldwater2,136
0.0%
R+28.9
R+62.6
R+51.5
3,315
D
66.9%Kennedy1,168
33.1%Nixon579
0.0%
D+33.7
R+38.5
D+33.6
1,747
D
86.1%Stevenson2,445
13.9%Eisenhower394
0.0%
D+72.2
D+25.1
D+87.6
2,839
D
73.6%Stevenson1,512
26.4%Eisenhower543
0.0%
D+47.2
R+8.0
D+57.9
2,055
D
63.6%Truman785
8.4%Dewey104
28.0%
D+55.1
R+0.1
D+50.7
1,235
D
77.6%Roosevelt763
22.4%Dewey220
0.0%
D+55.2
R+23.2
D+47.7
983
D
88.9%Roosevelt821
10.5%Willkie97
0.5%
D+78.4
R+9.0
D+68.5
923
D
93.7%Roosevelt929
6.3%Landon62
0.0%
D+87.5
R+8.0
D+63.2
991
D
97.5%Roosevelt515
2.1%Hoover11
0.4%
D+95.5
D+75.4
D+77.7
528
D
60.0%Smith305
40.0%Hoover203
0.0%
D+20.1
R+63.5
D+37.5
508
D
91.1%Davis961
7.5%Coolidge79
1.4%La Follette15
D+83.6
D+66.9
D+108.8
1,055
D
58.4%Cox307
41.6%Harding219
0.0%
D+16.7
R+55.6
D+42.9
526
D
86.2%Wilson287
13.8%Hughes46
0.0%
D+72.4
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D+69.2
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Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
12.3%458
86.4%3,204
3,710
2020
R
12.8%1,168
85.8%7,809
9,102
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Bacon County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
6,300
2018
6,412
2020
6,946
2022
6,997
2024
7,206
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+19 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −109 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $39,995 in average income, against $54,064 for residents who stayed — 26% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+44.2 on average — 29 points more Democratic-leaning than Bacon County, GA itself (R+73.2).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Coffee County, GA29R+45.1
Ware County, GA28R+43.2
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Coffee County, GA32
Ware County, GA26
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Bacon County, GA in Bacon County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+87
2012
−55
2013
−7
2014
+5
2015
+18
2016
+31
2017
−98
2018
−90
2019
−14
2021
−35
2022
+144
2023
−27
2024
−87
2025
+19
This small southeast Georgia county of roughly 10,000 delivered an R+73.2 margin in 2024, placing it among the state's most one-sided jurisdictions and reflecting the heavily Republican shift across rural wiregrass Georgia.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 80.4 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 73.2 points.
A population of 11,109, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,694 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Berrien County and Lafayette County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Bacon County, Georgia voted Republican by 73.2 points (R+73.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 4,839 votes cast, 645 went Democratic and 4,186 went Republican.
When did Bacon County, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bacon County, Georgia voted Democratic was 1992.
How many people live in Bacon County, Georgia?
Bacon County, Georgia has a population of 11,109 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bacon County, Georgia?
Median household income in Bacon County, Georgia is $44,694 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Bacon County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Bacon County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
