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
GroupRabun CountyGeorgiaUnited States
English18.4%10.3%9.5%
American12.3%7.6%5.3%
Irish9.7%6.9%9.4%
German6.8%6.3%12.5%
Scotch-Irish3.3%——
Scottish2.8%1.7%1.3%
Italian2.0%2.2%4.8%
French1.5%1.0%1.6%
Mexican6.8%5.5%11.3%
Ecuadorian0.4%——
Puerto Rican0.3%1.2%1.8%
Cuban0.2%0.3%0.7%
Dominican0.2%—0.7%
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
Rabun County
Georgia
United States
Median age
50.1
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
6.0%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
28.9%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rabun County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$67,493
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.1%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
31.3%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rabun County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.7%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
6.9%
8.7%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.4%
1.6%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rabun County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
9.8%
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
45.9%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
33.6%
49.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
9.2%
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.
Rabun County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
1 precincts · 10,423 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Rabun County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -RABUNRABUN
2,222
8,151
50
10,423
21.3%
78.2%
R+56.9
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+68.6%
1896
+58.6%
1900
+55.2%
1904
+49.7%
1908
+14.9%
1912
+68.6%
1916
+60.6%
1920
+35.9%
1924
+56.8%
1928
+31.7%
1932
+83.2%
1936
+70.7%
1940
+84.0%
1944
+74.2%
1948
+60.1%
1952
+49.2%
1956
+54.2%
1960
+54.0%
1964
+53.0%
1968
−3.4%
1972
−60.3%
1976
+60.5%
1980
+36.0%
1984
−26.7%
1988
−27.1%
1992
−0.5%
1996
−5.7%
2000
−31.4%
2004
−41.1%
2008
−45.9%
2012
−56.2%
2016
−60.2%
2020
−57.4%
2024
−56.9%
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
21.3%Harris2,222
78.2%Trump8,151
0.3%Oliver35
R+56.9
D+0.5
R+55.4
10,423
R
20.7%Biden1,984
78.1%Trump7,474
1.1%Jorgensen110
R+57.4
D+2.8
R+61.8
9,568
R
17.9%Clinton1,444
78.1%Trump6,287
2.7%Johnson219
R+60.2
R+4.0
R+62.3
8,048
R
20.9%Obama1,559
77.1%Romney5,754
2.0%
R+56.2
R+10.3
R+60.1
7,465
R
26.3%Obama2,001
72.2%McCain5,487
1.5%
R+45.9
R+4.7
R+53.1
7,599
R
28.9%Kerry1,918
70.0%Bush4,650
1.1%
R+41.1
R+9.8
R+38.7
6,643
R
33.3%Gore1,776
64.6%Bush3,451
0.6%Nader31
R+31.4
R+25.7
R+31.9
5,341
R
40.8%Clinton1,943
46.4%Dole2,213
12.3%Perot585
R+5.7
R+5.1
R+14.2
4,767
R
40.6%Clinton1,878
41.2%Bush1,902
17.8%Perot825
R+0.5
D+26.6
R+6.1
4,622
R
36.1%Dukakis1,301
63.1%Bush2,278
0.8%
R+27.1
R+0.4
R+19.4
3,608
R
36.6%Mondale1,267
63.4%Reagan2,191
0.0%
R+26.7
R+62.7
R+8.5
3,458
D
66.6%Carter2,327
30.6%Reagan1,070
2.8%
D+36.0
R+24.5
D+45.7
3,495
D
80.2%Carter2,398
19.8%Ford591
0.0%
D+60.5
D+120.7
D+58.4
2,989
R
19.9%McGovern366
80.1%Nixon1,477
0.0%
R+60.3
R+56.9
R+37.1
1,843
O
22.0%Humphrey590
25.4%Nixon680
52.6%
Wallace +27.2
R+56.4
R+2.7
2,679
D
76.5%Johnson1,796
23.5%Goldwater551
0.0%
D+53.0
R+0.9
D+30.5
2,347
D
77.0%Kennedy1,552
23.0%Nixon464
0.0%
D+54.0
R+0.2
D+53.8
2,016
D
77.1%Stevenson1,391
22.9%Eisenhower413
0.0%
D+54.2
D+5.0
D+69.6
1,804
D
74.6%Stevenson1,320
25.4%Eisenhower449
0.0%
D+49.2
R+10.8
D+60.0
1,769
D
77.1%Truman747
17.0%Dewey165
5.9%
D+60.1
R+14.1
D+55.6
969
D
87.1%Roosevelt1,247
12.9%Dewey185
0.0%
D+74.2
R+9.8
D+66.7
1,432
D
91.9%Roosevelt958
7.9%Willkie82
0.3%
D+84.0
D+13.2
D+74.0
1,043
D
85.3%Roosevelt948
14.6%Landon162
0.1%
D+70.7
R+12.5
D+46.5
1,111
D
91.2%Roosevelt893
8.0%Hoover78
0.8%
D+83.2
D+51.6
D+65.5
979
D
65.8%Smith590
34.2%Hoover306
0.0%
D+31.7
R+25.1
D+49.2
896
D
76.6%Davis454
19.7%Coolidge117
3.7%La Follette22
D+56.8
D+20.9
D+82.0
593
D
68.0%Cox312
32.0%Harding147
0.0%
D+35.9
R+24.7
D+62.1
459
D
70.3%Wilson633
9.7%Hughes87
20.1%
D+60.6
R+8.0
D+57.5
901
D
71.2%Wilson327
2.6%Taft12
26.1%
D+68.6
D+53.8
D+49.1
459
D
55.9%Bryan233
41.0%Taft171
3.1%
D+14.9
R+34.8
D+24.4
417
D
74.4%Parker364
24.7%Roosevelt121
0.8%
D+49.7
R+5.5
D+69.4
489
D
77.5%Bryan244
22.2%McKinley70
0.3%
D+55.2
R+3.4
D+62.8
315
D
78.1%Bryan404
19.5%McKinley101
2.3%
D+58.6
R+10.0
D+64.7
517
D
83.7%Cleveland448
15.1%Harrison81
1.1%
D+68.6
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D+66.9
535
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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
22.0%1,804
75.3%6,180
8,207
2020
R
19.2%3,629
78.3%14,774
18,858
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Rabun County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
11,623
2018
12,289
2020
13,437
2022
13,922
2024
14,964
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+141 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +2,460 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $82,945 in average income, against $80,533 for residents who stayed — 3% higher. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+16.5 on average — 40 points more Democratic-leaning than Rabun County, GA itself (R+56.9).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Macon County, NC32R+37.9
Habersham County, GA29R+64.9
Gwinnett County, GA26D+16.5
Fulton County, GA20D+44.9
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Habersham County, GA55
Macon County, NC30
Fulton County, GA21
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 Rabun County, GA in Rabun County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+12
2012
+61
2013
−53
2014
+27
2015
+117
2016
+311
2017
+119
2018
+369
2019
+347
2021
+349
2022
+227
2023
+243
2024
+190
2025
+141
Tucked into Georgia's northeastern corner where the Blue Ridge Mountains meet the Carolinas, Rabun County's rural, overwhelmingly white population has produced some of the state's widest Republican presidential margins for over a decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.0 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 56.9 points.
A population of 17,312, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,493 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fannin County and Union 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, Rabun County, Georgia voted Republican by 56.9 points (R+56.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 10,423 votes cast, 2,222 went Democratic and 8,151 went Republican.
When did Rabun County, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Rabun County, Georgia voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Rabun County, Georgia?
Rabun County, Georgia has a population of 17,312 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rabun County, Georgia?
Median household income in Rabun County, Georgia is $67,493 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Rabun County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Rabun County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
