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
GroupCalhoun CountyGeorgiaUnited States
African American†56.3%27.4%9.9%
African1.3%0.8%0.5%
Nigerian0.4%0.5%0.2%
Jamaican0.3%0.7%0.4%
American14.3%7.6%5.3%
German5.1%6.3%12.5%
Irish3.5%6.9%9.4%
English2.7%10.3%9.5%
Scotch-Irish1.1%——
Italian0.8%2.2%4.8%
Scottish0.3%1.7%1.3%
Danish0.3%——
Mexican4.2%5.5%11.3%
Honduran0.4%0.4%0.3%
Colombian0.3%0.4%0.4%
Puerto Rican0.2%1.2%1.8%
Guatemalan0.2%0.7%0.5%
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
Calhoun County
Georgia
United States
Median age
40.2
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
8.7%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.3%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Calhoun County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$46,940
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
22.8%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
13.0%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Calhoun County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.0%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
6.8%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Calhoun County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
—
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
26.7%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
57.4%
49.3%
51.5%
Black Protestant
12.3%
5.1%
2.2%
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.
Calhoun County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 2,056 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Calhoun County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
250
250
0
500
50.0%
50.0%
Even
Precinct -22
134
295
2
431
31.1%
68.4%
R+37.4
Precinct -44
237
180
0
417
56.8%
43.2%
D+13.7
Precinct -55
288
94
1
383
75.2%
24.5%
D+50.7
Precinct -33
244
81
0
325
75.1%
24.9%
D+50.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+9.9%
1896
+95.9%
1900
+47.6%
1904
+82.7%
1908
+40.1%
1912
+95.3%
1916
+92.8%
1920
+97.8%
1924
+67.2%
1928
+72.5%
1932
+95.2%
1936
+96.2%
1940
+89.7%
1944
+90.4%
1948
+70.6%
1952
+69.3%
1956
+82.2%
1960
+71.9%
1964
−57.3%
1968
+24.2%
1972
−28.6%
1976
+52.3%
1980
+36.5%
1984
+16.2%
1988
+16.6%
1992
+41.5%
1996
+36.2%
2000
+18.0%
2004
+11.3%
2008
+21.7%
2012
+19.0%
2016
+17.2%
2020
+15.4%
2024
+12.3%
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
D
56.1%Harris1,153
43.8%Trump900
0.1%Oliver3
D+12.3
R+3.1
D+13.8
2,056
D
57.4%Biden1,260
42.1%Trump923
0.5%Jorgensen11
D+15.4
R+1.9
D+10.9
2,194
D
58.2%Clinton1,179
41.0%Trump830
0.8%Johnson16
D+17.2
R+1.7
D+15.1
2,025
D
59.3%Obama1,298
40.3%Romney883
0.4%
D+19.0
R+2.8
D+15.1
2,189
D
60.7%Obama1,342
39.0%McCain862
0.3%
D+21.7
D+10.4
D+14.4
2,211
D
55.4%Kerry1,119
44.1%Bush890
0.5%
D+11.3
R+6.6
D+13.8
2,019
D
58.7%Gore1,107
40.7%Bush768
0.6%
D+18.0
R+18.2
D+17.4
1,887
D
65.1%Clinton1,217
29.0%Dole541
5.7%Perot106
D+36.2
R+5.3
D+27.7
1,868
D
64.5%Clinton1,301
23.0%Bush464
12.3%Perot248
D+41.5
D+24.9
D+35.9
2,018
D
58.1%Dukakis901
41.5%Bush644
0.4%
D+16.6
D+0.3
D+24.3
1,551
D
58.1%Mondale1,077
41.9%Reagan776
0.0%
D+16.2
R+20.3
D+34.5
1,853
D
67.8%Carter1,414
31.2%Reagan652
1.0%
D+36.5
R+15.8
D+46.2
2,087
D
76.2%Carter1,394
23.8%Ford436
0.0%
D+52.3
D+81.0
D+50.3
1,830
R
35.7%McGovern495
64.3%Nixon892
0.0%
R+28.6
R+52.9
R+5.5
1,387
O
36.5%Humphrey697
12.3%Nixon234
51.3%
Wallace +14.8
D+81.6
D+24.9
1,910
R
21.3%Johnson289
78.7%Goldwater1,066
0.0%
R+57.3
R+129.3
R+79.9
1,355
D
86.0%Kennedy803
14.0%Nixon131
0.0%
D+71.9
R+10.2
D+71.8
934
D
91.1%Stevenson1,094
8.9%Eisenhower107
0.0%
D+82.2
D+12.9
D+97.6
1,201
D
84.6%Stevenson810
15.4%Eisenhower147
0.0%
D+69.3
R+1.3
D+80.0
957
D
77.6%Truman399
7.0%Dewey36
15.4%
D+70.6
R+19.8
D+66.1
514
D
95.2%Roosevelt736
4.8%Dewey37
0.0%
D+90.4
D+0.7
D+82.9
773
D
94.9%Roosevelt610
5.1%Willkie33
0.0%
D+89.7
R+6.5
D+79.8
643
D
98.0%Roosevelt777
1.8%Landon14
0.3%
D+96.2
D+1.0
D+72.0
793
D
97.2%Roosevelt483
2.0%Hoover10
0.8%
D+95.2
D+22.7
D+77.4
497
D
86.3%Smith571
13.7%Hoover91
0.0%
D+72.5
D+5.3
D+90.0
662
D
83.3%Davis343
16.0%Coolidge66
0.7%La Follette3
D+67.2
R+30.6
D+92.4
412
D
98.9%Cox449
1.1%Harding5
0.0%
D+97.8
D+5.0
D+124.0
454
D
96.0%Wilson265
3.3%Hughes9
0.7%
D+92.8
R+2.5
D+89.6
276
D
96.8%Wilson328
1.5%Taft5
1.8%
D+95.3
D+55.2
D+75.7
339
D
65.7%Bryan272
25.6%Taft106
8.7%
D+40.1
R+42.6
D+49.7
414
D
87.6%Parker345
4.8%Roosevelt19
7.6%
D+82.7
D+35.1
D+102.4
394
D
71.7%Bryan289
24.1%McKinley97
4.2%
D+47.6
R+48.3
D+55.2
403
D
97.1%Bryan406
1.2%McKinley5
1.7%
D+95.9
D+86.1
D+102.0
418
D
52.0%Cleveland527
42.1%Harrison427
5.9%
D+9.9
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D+8.2
1,014
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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
D
56.7%963
42.6%724
1,698
2020
D
55.9%2,420
42.6%1,845
4,328
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Calhoun County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
3,090
2018
3,146
2020
3,239
2022
3,104
2024
3,207
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−13 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −557 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $29,538 in average income, against $47,682 for residents who stayed — 38% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Dougherty County, GA24
Early County, GA20
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 Calhoun County, GA in Calhoun County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−87
2012
−56
2013
+26
2014
−60
2015
+30
2016
−163
2017
+46
2018
−46
2019
−171
2021
+9
2022
−38
2023
+5
2024
−39
2025
−13
Calhoun County sits in Georgia's historically Black Belt, where a majority-Black population has consistently produced double-digit Democratic margins even as rural southwest Georgia trends the other direction.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.8 points in 1920 and a Republican high of 57.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.3 points.
A population of 5,498, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $46,940 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Terrell County and Kemper 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, Calhoun County, Georgia voted Democratic by 12.3 points (D+12.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,056 votes cast, 1,153 went Democratic and 900 went Republican.
When did Calhoun County, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Calhoun County, Georgia voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Calhoun County, Georgia?
Calhoun County, Georgia has a population of 5,498 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Calhoun County, Georgia?
Median household income in Calhoun County, Georgia is $46,940 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Calhoun County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Calhoun County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 31 went Democratic and 2 went Republican.
