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
GroupTowns CountyGeorgiaUnited States
English19.1%10.3%9.5%
Irish13.9%6.9%9.4%
German12.0%6.3%12.5%
American8.5%7.6%5.3%
Italian3.8%2.2%4.8%
Scottish3.7%1.7%1.3%
Scotch-Irish3.0%——
Welsh1.7%——
Mexican1.3%5.5%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.0%1.2%1.8%
Spanish0.5%——
Spaniard0.3%——
African American†1.4%27.4%9.9%
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
Towns County
Georgia
United States
Median age
57.4
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
10.7%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
37.0%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Towns County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$59,135
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.3%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
31.0%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Towns County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.6%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
1.7%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Towns County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
—
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
41.3%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
50.7%
49.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.7%
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.
Towns County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
2 precincts · 8,838 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Towns County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -09900990
1,086
5,041
26
6,153
17.6%
81.9%
R+64.3
Precinct -14681468
563
2,114
8
2,685
21.0%
78.7%
R+57.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+2.3%
1896
+6.4%
1900
−4.9%
1904
−8.5%
1908
−19.4%
1912
+26.7%
1916
−14.6%
1920
−21.7%
1924
−11.7%
1928
−24.7%
1932
−3.1%
1936
+2.1%
1940
+3.7%
1944
+25.6%
1948
+26.0%
1952
+6.1%
1956
−10.7%
1960
−9.5%
1964
+6.1%
1968
−25.3%
1972
−59.1%
1976
+20.6%
1980
+1.1%
1984
−32.1%
1988
−30.7%
1992
−5.0%
1996
−8.8%
2000
−31.3%
2004
−45.3%
2008
−50.5%
2012
−57.7%
2016
−61.4%
2020
−60.6%
2024
−62.3%
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
R
18.7%Harris1,649
81.0%Trump7,155
0.3%Oliver27
R+62.3
R+1.7
R+60.8
8,838
R
19.4%Biden1,550
80.0%Trump6,384
0.6%Jorgensen45
R+60.6
D+0.8
R+65.0
7,979
R
17.8%Clinton1,210
79.2%Trump5,383
2.1%Johnson146
R+61.4
R+3.7
R+63.5
6,800
R
20.4%Obama1,273
78.1%Romney4,876
1.5%
R+57.7
R+7.2
R+61.6
6,244
R
24.2%Obama1,391
74.8%McCain4,292
1.0%
R+50.5
R+5.3
R+57.8
5,739
R
27.1%Kerry1,430
72.3%Bush3,823
0.6%
R+45.3
R+14.0
R+42.8
5,285
R
33.2%Gore1,495
64.5%Bush2,902
0.8%Nader34
R+31.3
R+22.5
R+31.8
4,497
R
39.8%Clinton1,664
48.6%Dole2,030
11.0%Perot459
R+8.8
R+3.7
R+17.3
4,179
R
40.1%Clinton1,487
45.2%Bush1,674
14.5%Perot537
R+5.0
D+25.7
R+10.6
3,704
R
34.4%Dukakis942
65.1%Bush1,783
0.5%
R+30.7
D+1.4
R+23.0
2,738
R
33.9%Mondale1,007
66.1%Reagan1,960
0.0%
R+32.1
R+33.3
R+13.9
2,967
D
49.3%Carter1,510
48.1%Reagan1,475
2.6%
D+1.1
R+19.5
D+10.9
3,065
D
60.3%Carter1,786
39.7%Ford1,175
0.0%
D+20.6
D+79.8
D+18.6
2,961
R
20.4%McGovern404
79.6%Nixon1,573
0.0%
R+59.1
R+33.8
R+36.0
1,977
R
27.0%Humphrey770
52.3%Nixon1,492
20.7%
R+25.3
R+31.5
R+24.6
2,851
D
53.0%Johnson1,289
46.9%Goldwater1,140
0.1%
D+6.1
D+15.6
R+16.5
2,432
R
45.3%Kennedy1,052
54.7%Nixon1,272
0.0%
R+9.5
D+1.2
R+9.6
2,324
R
44.7%Stevenson885
55.3%Eisenhower1,096
0.0%
R+10.7
R+16.8
D+4.8
1,981
D
53.1%Stevenson1,111
46.9%Eisenhower983
0.0%
D+6.1
R+19.9
D+16.9
2,094
D
62.6%Truman516
36.7%Dewey302
0.7%
D+26.0
D+0.4
D+21.5
824
D
62.8%Roosevelt1,137
37.2%Dewey674
0.0%
D+25.6
D+21.9
D+18.1
1,811
D
51.9%Roosevelt894
48.1%Willkie830
0.0%
D+3.7
D+1.6
R+6.2
1,724
D
51.0%Roosevelt763
49.0%Landon732
0.0%
D+2.1
D+5.2
R+22.2
1,495
R
48.4%Roosevelt742
51.6%Hoover790
0.0%
R+3.1
D+21.6
R+20.9
1,532
R
37.6%Smith517
62.4%Hoover857
0.0%
R+24.7
R+13.0
R+7.3
1,374
R
44.0%Davis604
55.8%Coolidge765
0.2%La Follette3
R+11.7
D+10.0
D+13.4
1,372
R
39.1%Cox256
60.9%Harding398
0.0%
R+21.7
R+7.2
D+4.5
654
R
42.4%Wilson358
56.9%Hughes481
0.7%
R+14.6
R+41.2
R+17.7
845
D
43.5%Wilson230
16.8%Taft89
39.7%
D+26.7
D+46.1
D+7.1
529
R
40.1%Bryan196
59.5%Taft291
0.4%
R+19.4
R+10.9
R+9.9
489
R
36.3%Parker338
44.8%Roosevelt417
18.8%
R+8.5
R+3.6
D+11.2
930
R
46.9%Bryan295
51.8%McKinley326
1.3%
R+4.9
R+11.3
D+2.6
629
D
53.2%Bryan340
46.8%McKinley299
0.0%
D+6.4
D+4.1
D+12.5
639
D
50.1%Cleveland369
47.8%Harrison352
2.0%
D+2.3
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D+0.7
736
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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
19.2%1,362
78.3%5,568
7,109
2020
R
18.6%2,929
79.8%12,559
15,735
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Towns County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
9,402
2018
9,814
2020
10,908
2022
11,679
2024
12,067
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+263 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +3,665 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $71,929 in average income, against $85,635 for residents who stayed — 16% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+57.7 on average — 4.6 points more Democratic-leaning than Towns County, GA itself (R+62.3).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Union County, GA50R+62.5
Clay County, NC31R+50.0
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Union County, GA79
Clay County, NC49
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 Towns County, GA in Towns County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+141
2012
+65
2013
+292
2014
+359
2015
+196
2016
+279
2017
+239
2018
+398
2019
+253
2021
+485
2022
+230
2023
+185
2024
+280
2025
+263
Towns County, tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains along the North Carolina border, has delivered some of Georgia's largest Republican presidential margins for over a decade, reflecting a rural Appalachian electorate that skews older and overwhelmingly white.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 62.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.3 points.
A population of 12,913, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,135 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Union County and Rabun 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, Towns County, Georgia voted Republican by 62.3 points (R+62.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 8,838 votes cast, 1,649 went Democratic and 7,155 went Republican.
When did Towns County, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Towns County, Georgia voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Towns County, Georgia?
Towns County, Georgia has a population of 12,913 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Towns County, Georgia?
Median household income in Towns County, Georgia is $59,135 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Towns County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Towns County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
