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
GroupWheeler CountyGeorgiaUnited States
American8.5%7.6%5.3%
English6.6%10.3%9.5%
Irish1.3%6.9%9.4%
German0.8%6.3%12.5%
Italian0.8%2.2%4.8%
Scottish0.7%1.7%1.3%
French0.2%1.0%1.6%
Welsh0.2%——
African American†34.3%27.4%9.9%
African2.2%0.8%0.5%
Haitian0.3%0.4%0.3%
Jamaican0.2%0.7%0.4%
Mexican3.7%5.5%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.3%1.2%1.8%
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
Wheeler County
Georgia
United States
Median age
32
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
20.6%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.7%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wheeler County
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$40,539
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
32.7%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
10.0%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wheeler County
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.0%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
3.3%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wheeler County
Georgia
United States
Catholic
—
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
20.3%
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
71.0%
49.3%
51.5%
Black Protestant
5.8%
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.
Wheeler County, Georgia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
2 precincts · 2,276 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Wheeler County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
397
950
2
1,349
29.4%
70.4%
R+41.0
Precinct -22
225
698
4
927
24.3%
75.3%
R+51.0
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1916–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1916
+77.0%
1920
+55.2%
1924
+88.8%
1928
+51.1%
1932
+94.9%
1936
+72.6%
1940
+61.5%
1944
+54.8%
1948
+58.9%
1952
+66.1%
1956
+73.9%
1960
+62.2%
1964
+7.2%
1968
+14.2%
1972
−57.6%
1976
+60.0%
1980
+48.0%
1984
−3.7%
1988
−3.7%
1992
+16.4%
1996
+21.4%
2000
−3.9%
2004
−16.8%
2008
−27.8%
2012
−27.4%
2016
−36.9%
2020
−39.1%
2024
−45.1%
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
27.3%Harris622
72.4%Trump1,648
0.2%Oliver5
R+45.1
R+6.0
R+43.6
2,276
R
30.2%Biden689
69.3%Trump1,583
0.6%Jorgensen13
R+39.1
R+2.3
R+43.6
2,285
R
30.7%Clinton646
67.6%Trump1,421
1.7%Johnson35
R+36.9
R+9.4
R+39.0
2,102
R
35.7%Obama772
63.1%Romney1,366
1.2%
R+27.4
D+0.3
R+31.3
2,165
R
35.9%Obama794
63.7%McCain1,408
0.4%
R+27.8
R+11.0
R+35.1
2,210
R
41.2%Kerry847
58.0%Bush1,192
0.7%
R+16.8
R+12.9
R+14.3
2,054
R
47.7%Gore752
51.6%Bush813
0.1%Nader2
R+3.9
R+25.3
R+4.4
1,575
D
55.3%Clinton751
33.9%Dole460
10.4%Perot141
D+21.4
D+5.0
D+12.9
1,357
D
51.8%Clinton880
35.4%Bush601
12.6%Perot214
D+16.4
D+20.1
D+10.9
1,699
R
47.9%Dukakis658
51.6%Bush709
0.4%
R+3.7
±0.0
D+4.0
1,373
R
48.2%Mondale774
51.8%Reagan833
0.0%
R+3.7
R+51.7
D+14.5
1,607
D
73.1%Carter1,599
25.2%Reagan550
1.7%
D+48.0
R+12.1
D+57.7
2,186
D
80.0%Carter1,378
20.0%Ford344
0.0%
D+60.0
D+117.7
D+58.0
1,722
R
21.2%McGovern294
78.8%Nixon1,093
0.0%
R+57.6
R+71.8
R+34.5
1,387
O
29.2%Humphrey488
15.0%Nixon251
55.8%
Wallace +26.7
D+7.0
D+14.9
1,673
D
53.6%Johnson980
46.4%Goldwater849
0.0%
D+7.2
R+55.0
R+15.4
1,829
D
81.1%Kennedy970
18.9%Nixon226
0.0%
D+62.2
R+11.7
D+62.0
1,196
D
86.9%Stevenson992
13.1%Eisenhower149
0.0%
D+73.9
D+7.8
D+89.3
1,141
D
83.1%Stevenson1,280
16.9%Eisenhower261
0.0%
D+66.1
D+7.3
D+76.9
1,541
D
63.3%Truman560
4.4%Dewey39
32.3%
D+58.9
D+4.1
D+54.4
885
D
77.4%Roosevelt517
22.6%Dewey151
0.0%
D+54.8
R+6.7
D+47.3
668
D
80.5%Roosevelt495
19.0%Willkie117
0.5%
D+61.5
R+11.1
D+51.5
615
D
86.2%Roosevelt594
13.6%Landon94
0.1%
D+72.6
R+22.3
D+48.3
689
D
97.4%Roosevelt1,127
2.5%Hoover29
0.1%
D+94.9
D+43.8
D+77.1
1,157
D
75.5%Smith312
24.5%Hoover101
0.0%
D+51.1
R+37.7
D+68.6
413
D
88.8%Davis772
0.0%Coolidge0
11.2%La Follette97
D+88.8
D+33.6
D+114.0
869
D
77.6%Cox350
22.4%Harding101
0.0%
D+55.2
R+21.8
D+81.4
451
D
84.0%Wilson372
7.0%Hughes31
9.0%
D+77.0
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D+73.8
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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
29.4%534
69.7%1,266
1,817
2020
R
29.5%1,322
69.0%3,093
4,482
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Wheeler County, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
3,054
2018
3,041
2020
3,341
2022
3,302
2024
3,422
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+254 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +198 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $31,683 in average income, against $47,470 for residents who stayed — 33% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+39.3 on average — 5.8 points more Democratic-leaning than Wheeler County, GA itself (R+45.1).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Telfair County, GA25R+39.3
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Telfair County, GA26
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 Wheeler County, GA in Wheeler County, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+293
2012
−136
2013
−3
2014
+53
2015
−70
2016
+102
2017
−72
2018
−74
2019
−44
2021
+353
2022
−482
2023
−227
2024
+251
2025
+254
Wheeler County's roughly 6,000 residents make it one of Georgia's smallest by population, and its presidential margins have exceeded 40 points Republican in recent cycles, reflecting the heavily Republican lean common across rural south-central Georgia.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 57.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.1 points.
A population of 7,335, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $40,539 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lamar County and Hamilton 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, Wheeler County, Georgia voted Republican by 45.1 points (R+45.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,276 votes cast, 622 went Democratic and 1,648 went Republican.
When did Wheeler County, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wheeler County, Georgia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Wheeler County, Georgia?
Wheeler County, Georgia has a population of 7,335 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wheeler County, Georgia?
Median household income in Wheeler County, Georgia is $40,539 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Wheeler County, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Wheeler County, Georgia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
