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
GroupButts CountyGeorgiaUnited States
American22.5%7.6%5.3%
English12.5%10.3%9.5%
Irish8.5%6.9%9.4%
German5.3%6.3%12.5%
Italian1.9%2.2%4.8%
Scottish1.8%1.7%1.3%
Polish0.8%0.8%2.2%
French0.7%1.0%1.6%
African American†23.4%27.4%9.9%
African0.5%0.8%0.5%
Jamaican0.2%0.7%0.4%
Mexican3.0%5.5%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.2%1.2%1.8%
Cuban0.2%0.3%0.7%
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
Butts County
Georgia
United States
Median age
37.8
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
9.7%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.7%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Butts County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$69,241
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.4%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
14.4%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Butts County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.9%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
3.2%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Butts County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
5.3%
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
25.8%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
55.9%
49.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.0%
6.6%
5.2%
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.
Butts County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
1 precincts · 13,019 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Butts County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -BCABBCAB
3,544
9,424
51
13,019
27.2%
72.4%
R+45.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+29.5%
1896
+27.5%
1900
+65.9%
1904
+61.7%
1908
+27.8%
1912
+80.9%
1916
+80.6%
1920
+56.1%
1924
+76.2%
1928
+70.2%
1932
+96.9%
1936
+92.8%
1940
+84.0%
1944
+88.0%
1948
+79.3%
1952
+82.0%
1956
+70.7%
1960
+62.8%
1964
+9.8%
1968
+12.4%
1972
−46.0%
1976
+55.9%
1980
+35.5%
1984
−8.1%
1988
−11.6%
1992
+14.0%
1996
+5.1%
2000
−16.3%
2004
−32.9%
2008
−31.7%
2012
−35.5%
2016
−43.6%
2020
−43.6%
2024
−45.2%
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
27.2%Harris3,544
72.4%Trump9,424
0.3%Oliver39
R+45.2
R+1.6
R+43.7
13,019
R
27.8%Biden3,274
71.4%Trump8,406
0.8%Jorgensen91
R+43.6
±0.0
R+48.1
11,771
R
27.0%Clinton2,566
70.6%Trump6,717
2.0%Johnson194
R+43.6
R+8.1
R+45.7
9,514
R
31.6%Obama2,968
67.1%Romney6,306
1.3%
R+35.5
R+3.8
R+39.4
9,400
R
33.7%Obama3,065
65.4%McCain5,947
0.9%
R+31.7
D+1.2
R+39.0
9,091
R
33.2%Kerry2,572
66.1%Bush5,119
0.7%
R+32.9
R+16.6
R+30.4
7,742
R
40.5%Gore2,281
56.8%Bush3,198
0.1%Nader8
R+16.3
R+21.4
R+16.8
5,635
D
47.7%Clinton2,271
42.6%Dole2,027
8.7%Perot416
D+5.1
R+8.9
R+3.4
4,757
D
50.5%Clinton2,448
36.4%Bush1,768
12.8%Perot619
D+14.0
D+25.6
D+8.5
4,851
R
44.1%Dukakis1,730
55.7%Bush2,184
0.3%
R+11.6
R+3.5
R+3.8
3,924
R
45.9%Mondale1,820
54.1%Reagan2,141
0.0%
R+8.1
R+43.6
D+10.1
3,961
D
66.9%Carter2,574
31.5%Reagan1,210
1.6%
D+35.5
R+20.5
D+45.2
3,845
D
78.0%Carter2,898
22.0%Ford819
0.0%
D+55.9
D+102.0
D+53.9
3,717
R
27.0%McGovern727
73.0%Nixon1,968
0.0%
R+46.0
R+58.4
R+22.9
2,695
O
31.6%Humphrey959
19.3%Nixon584
49.1%
Wallace +17.5
D+2.6
D+13.1
3,033
D
54.9%Johnson1,534
45.1%Goldwater1,261
0.0%
D+9.8
R+53.1
R+12.8
2,795
D
81.4%Kennedy1,673
18.6%Nixon382
0.0%
D+62.8
R+7.9
D+62.7
2,055
D
85.4%Stevenson1,885
14.6%Eisenhower323
0.0%
D+70.7
R+11.2
D+86.1
2,208
D
91.0%Stevenson1,910
9.0%Eisenhower189
0.0%
D+82.0
D+2.7
D+92.7
2,099
D
84.5%Truman987
5.2%Dewey61
10.3%
D+79.3
R+8.7
D+74.8
1,168
D
94.0%Roosevelt1,330
6.0%Dewey85
0.0%
D+88.0
D+4.0
D+80.5
1,415
D
91.9%Roosevelt1,012
7.9%Willkie87
0.2%
D+84.0
R+8.8
D+74.1
1,101
D
96.1%Roosevelt820
3.3%Landon28
0.6%
D+92.8
R+4.1
D+68.6
853
D
98.1%Roosevelt1,693
1.2%Hoover21
0.6%
D+96.9
D+26.7
D+79.1
1,725
D
85.1%Smith846
14.9%Hoover148
0.0%
D+70.2
R+6.0
D+87.7
994
D
84.9%Davis493
8.6%Coolidge50
6.5%La Follette38
D+76.2
D+20.1
D+101.4
581
D
78.1%Cox502
21.9%Harding141
0.0%
D+56.1
R+24.4
D+82.3
643
D
88.3%Wilson595
7.7%Hughes52
4.0%
D+80.6
R+0.3
D+77.4
674
D
86.0%Wilson490
5.1%Taft29
8.9%
D+80.9
D+53.1
D+61.3
570
D
53.5%Bryan348
25.7%Taft167
20.9%
D+27.8
R+33.9
D+37.4
651
D
72.6%Parker531
10.9%Roosevelt80
16.4%
D+61.7
R+4.2
D+81.4
731
D
80.8%Bryan563
14.9%McKinley104
4.3%
D+65.9
D+38.3
D+73.4
697
D
59.9%Bryan586
32.4%McKinley317
7.7%
D+27.5
R+2.0
D+33.6
978
D
56.8%Cleveland818
27.3%Harrison393
15.8%
D+29.5
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D+27.9
1,439
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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
27.7%2,666
70.4%6,784
9,632
2020
R
27.3%6,357
70.9%16,516
23,282
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Butts County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
14,610
2018
15,976
2020
17,923
2022
18,680
2024
19,622
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+130 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +2,910 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $54,436 in average income, against $76,031 for residents who stayed — 28% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean D+17.0 on average — 62 points more Democratic-leaning than Butts County, GA itself (R+45.2).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Henry County, GA293D+29.7
Spalding County, GA93R+16.7
Clayton County, GA55D+69.2
Newton County, GA51D+15.1
Jasper County, GA35R+58.4
Lamar County, GA31R+45.9
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Henry County, GA158
Monroe County, GA66
Spalding County, GA66
Newton County, GA39
Lamar County, GA36
Jasper County, GA30
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 Butts County, GA in Butts County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−208
2012
−241
2013
−227
2014
+109
2015
+196
2016
+218
2017
+328
2018
+144
2019
+727
2021
+717
2022
+578
2023
+172
2024
+267
2025
+130
Butts County, south of metro Atlanta, has trended heavily Republican over the past decade as its modest population of roughly 20,000 remains rooted in rural and small-town Georgia rather than the suburban growth reshaping nearby counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 46.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.2 points.
A population of 26,496, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,241 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Worth County and Bleckley 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, Butts County, Georgia voted Republican by 45.2 points (R+45.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 13,019 votes cast, 3,544 went Democratic and 9,424 went Republican.
When did Butts County, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Butts County, Georgia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Butts County, Georgia?
Butts County, Georgia has a population of 26,496 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Butts County, Georgia?
Median household income in Butts County, Georgia is $69,241 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Butts County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Butts County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
