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
GroupClay CountyGeorgiaUnited States
African American†60.1%27.4%9.9%
African0.4%0.8%0.5%
American14.3%7.6%5.3%
English6.9%10.3%9.5%
Irish2.7%6.9%9.4%
German1.2%6.3%12.5%
Scotch-Irish1.0%——
Polish0.8%0.8%2.2%
Scottish0.8%1.7%1.3%
Czech0.5%——
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
Clay County
Georgia
United States
Median age
45.3
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
10.9%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
29.2%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Clay County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$49,147
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
21.0%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
23.4%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Clay County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.7%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
1.7%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Clay County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
—
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
17.7%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
75.2%
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.
Clay County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 1,442 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Clay County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -55
145
218
2
365
39.7%
59.7%
R+20.0
Precinct -44
171
142
2
315
54.3%
45.1%
D+9.2
Precinct -11
94
174
3
271
34.7%
64.2%
R+29.5
Precinct -33
197
55
0
252
78.2%
21.8%
D+56.3
Precinct -22
164
74
1
239
68.6%
31.0%
D+37.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+55.4%
1896
−34.5%
1900
+49.9%
1904
+51.5%
1908
+18.1%
1912
+91.6%
1916
+88.5%
1920
+57.0%
1924
+58.9%
1928
+75.7%
1932
+94.0%
1936
+94.4%
1940
+87.0%
1944
+85.3%
1948
+69.8%
1952
+46.4%
1956
+58.2%
1960
+72.5%
1964
−20.3%
1968
+30.4%
1972
−38.1%
1976
+52.5%
1980
+47.8%
1984
+28.3%
1988
+19.8%
1992
+42.9%
1996
+43.2%
2000
+29.2%
2004
+22.1%
2008
+22.3%
2012
+23.2%
2016
+10.3%
2020
+10.7%
2024
+7.5%
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
53.5%Harris771
46.0%Trump663
0.4%Oliver6
D+7.5
R+3.2
D+9.0
1,442
D
55.1%Biden790
44.4%Trump637
0.5%Jorgensen7
D+10.7
D+0.4
D+6.2
1,434
D
54.8%Clinton697
44.5%Trump566
0.6%Johnson8
D+10.3
R+12.9
D+8.2
1,273
D
61.4%Obama862
38.3%Romney537
0.3%
D+23.2
D+0.9
D+19.3
1,403
D
61.0%Obama879
38.8%McCain558
0.2%
D+22.3
D+0.2
D+15.0
1,440
D
60.9%Kerry798
38.9%Bush509
0.2%
D+22.1
R+7.1
D+24.5
1,310
D
64.3%Gore821
35.1%Bush448
0.6%
D+29.2
R+14.0
D+28.7
1,277
D
68.9%Clinton787
25.6%Dole293
5.4%Perot62
D+43.2
D+0.3
D+34.7
1,143
D
65.0%Clinton778
22.1%Bush264
12.9%Perot155
D+42.9
D+23.1
D+37.4
1,197
D
59.9%Dukakis595
40.0%Bush398
0.1%
D+19.8
R+8.5
D+27.5
994
D
64.2%Mondale750
35.8%Reagan419
0.0%
D+28.3
R+19.5
D+46.5
1,169
D
73.2%Carter909
25.5%Reagan316
1.3%
D+47.8
R+4.7
D+57.5
1,241
D
76.2%Carter947
23.8%Ford295
0.0%
D+52.5
D+90.6
D+50.4
1,242
R
30.9%McGovern283
69.1%Nixon632
0.0%
R+38.1
R+68.6
R+15.0
915
O
41.0%Humphrey516
10.6%Nixon133
48.4%
Wallace +7.4
D+50.8
D+31.1
1,258
R
39.7%Johnson360
60.0%Goldwater544
0.2%
R+20.3
R+92.9
R+42.9
906
D
86.3%Kennedy528
13.7%Nixon84
0.0%
D+72.5
D+14.3
D+72.4
612
D
79.1%Stevenson390
20.9%Eisenhower103
0.0%
D+58.2
D+11.8
D+73.6
493
D
73.2%Stevenson481
26.8%Eisenhower176
0.0%
D+46.4
R+23.3
D+57.2
657
D
80.4%Truman295
10.6%Dewey39
9.0%
D+69.8
R+15.6
D+65.3
367
D
92.7%Roosevelt442
7.3%Dewey35
0.0%
D+85.3
R+1.7
D+77.8
477
D
93.3%Roosevelt488
6.3%Willkie33
0.4%
D+87.0
R+7.4
D+77.1
523
D
97.0%Roosevelt484
2.6%Landon13
0.4%
D+94.4
D+0.4
D+70.1
499
D
96.7%Roosevelt433
2.7%Hoover12
0.7%
D+94.0
D+18.3
D+76.2
448
D
87.9%Smith405
12.1%Hoover56
0.0%
D+75.7
D+16.8
D+93.2
461
D
74.3%Davis246
15.4%Coolidge51
10.3%La Follette34
D+58.9
D+1.9
D+84.1
331
D
78.5%Cox230
21.5%Harding63
0.0%
D+57.0
R+31.5
D+83.2
293
D
92.2%Wilson225
3.7%Hughes9
4.1%
D+88.5
R+3.1
D+85.4
244
D
93.7%Wilson369
2.0%Taft8
4.3%
D+91.6
D+73.5
D+72.1
394
D
54.1%Bryan242
36.0%Taft161
9.8%
D+18.1
R+33.4
D+27.7
447
D
62.4%Parker270
10.9%Roosevelt47
26.8%
D+51.5
D+1.6
D+71.2
433
D
71.1%Bryan271
21.3%McKinley81
7.6%
D+49.9
D+84.3
D+57.4
381
R
28.1%Bryan240
62.6%McKinley534
9.3%
R+34.5
R+89.8
R+28.4
853
D
69.7%Cleveland506
14.3%Harrison104
16.0%
D+55.4
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D+53.7
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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
51.1%572
47.1%528
1,120
2020
D
53.0%1,498
45.1%1,274
2,825
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Clay County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
1,906
2018
1,932
2020
2,146
2022
2,195
2024
2,233
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+38 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −183 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $55,241 in average income, against $46,023 for residents who stayed — 20% higher. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
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 Clay County, GA in Clay County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3
2012
−59
2013
−81
2014
+71
2015
+2
2016
−63
2017
−31
2018
−59
2019
−34
2021
+56
2022
+11
2023
+10
2024
−41
2025
+38
Clay County, with barely 3,300 residents in Georgia's rural southwest, returned a Democratic presidential margin of 7.5 points in 2024—an outlier in a region that otherwise trends heavily Republican, driven largely by its majority-Black electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 38.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.5 points.
A population of 2,850, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,147 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Talbot County and Bamberg 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, Clay County, Georgia voted Democratic by 7.5 points (D+7.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,442 votes cast, 771 went Democratic and 663 went Republican.
When did Clay County, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Clay County, Georgia voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Clay County, Georgia?
Clay County, Georgia has a population of 2,850 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Clay County, Georgia?
Median household income in Clay County, Georgia is $49,147 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Clay County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Clay County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 30 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
