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
GroupDaviess CountyMissouriUnited States
American18.9%6.8%5.3%
German16.1%21.3%12.5%
English13.7%11.9%9.5%
Irish7.5%11.8%9.4%
Scottish3.3%1.8%1.3%
Polish2.5%1.3%2.2%
Italian0.9%3.2%4.8%
Hungarian0.7%——
Mexican0.9%3.2%11.3%
Panamanian0.2%——
Spanish0.2%——
African American†1.0%10.0%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
Daviess County
Missouri
United States
Median age
40.3
39.2
39.1
Age 18–24
7.9%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.7%
17.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Daviess County
Missouri
United States
Median household income
$63,984
$70,702
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.4%
12.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.4%
32.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Daviess County
Missouri
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.1%
6.7%
22.3%
German or other West Germanic
7.3%
0.5%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Daviess County
Missouri
United States
Catholic
1.2%
12.5%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
44.0%
24.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
35.1%
51.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
12.7%
5.7%
5.2%
Latter-day Saints
7.0%
1.2%
2.0%
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.
Daviess County, Missouri
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 3,925 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Daviess County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -ALTAMONTALTAMONT
269
1,074
13
1,356
19.8%
79.2%
R+59.4
Precinct -GALLATINGALLATIN
204
870
10
1,084
18.8%
80.3%
R+61.4
Precinct -PATTONSBURGPATTONSBURG
103
494
8
605
17.0%
81.7%
R+64.6
Precinct -JAMESPORTJAMESPORT
85
508
6
599
14.2%
84.8%
R+70.6
Precinct -JAMESONJAMESON
40
239
2
281
14.2%
85.1%
R+70.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+5.0%
1896
+14.4%
1900
+5.7%
1904
−4.4%
1908
−2.0%
1912
+25.6%
1916
+0.7%
1920
−11.1%
1924
−4.6%
1928
−20.8%
1932
+19.8%
1936
+0.4%
1940
−12.6%
1944
−16.7%
1948
+0.8%
1952
−22.6%
1956
−12.0%
1960
−17.9%
1964
+18.8%
1968
−14.2%
1972
−33.0%
1976
+7.9%
1980
−8.9%
1984
−22.5%
1988
−0.6%
1992
+9.9%
1996
+6.4%
2000
−18.4%
2004
−25.0%
2008
−22.8%
2012
−33.1%
2016
−54.5%
2020
−60.2%
2024
−63.3%
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
17.9%Harris701
81.1%Trump3,185
0.6%Oliver25 +1
R+63.3
R+3.0
R+61.8
3,925
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican81.1%3,185
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic17.9%701
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%25
Jill SteinIndependent0.4%14
R
19.1%Biden746
79.3%Trump3,102
1.3%Jorgensen49
R+60.2
R+5.7
R+64.7
3,911
R
19.5%Clinton730
74.0%Trump2,767
3.9%Johnson145
R+54.5
R+21.4
R+56.6
3,738
R
32.0%Obama1,125
65.0%Romney2,290
2.6%Gray93
R+33.1
R+10.3
R+36.9
3,521
R
37.0%Obama1,400
59.8%McCain2,263
3.2%
R+22.8
D+2.2
R+30.1
3,786
R
37.0%Kerry1,402
62.0%Bush2,351
1.1%
R+25.0
R+6.6
R+22.6
3,794
R
39.1%Gore1,367
57.6%Bush2,011
1.7%Nader58
R+18.4
R+24.8
R+19.0
3,494
D
45.8%Clinton1,534
39.4%Dole1,321
13.9%Perot466
D+6.4
R+3.6
R+2.2
3,353
D
39.6%Clinton1,477
29.7%Bush1,107
30.6%Perot1,143
D+9.9
D+10.5
D+4.4
3,732
R
49.5%Dukakis1,743
50.2%Bush1,765
0.3%
R+0.6
D+21.9
D+7.1
3,518
R
38.7%Mondale1,526
61.3%Reagan2,414
0.0%
R+22.5
R+13.6
R+4.3
3,940
R
44.4%Carter1,770
53.3%Reagan2,125
2.2%
R+8.9
R+16.8
D+0.8
3,984
D
53.7%Carter2,250
45.8%Ford1,919
0.5%
D+7.9
D+40.9
D+5.8
4,191
R
33.5%McGovern1,430
66.5%Nixon2,840
0.0%
R+33.0
R+18.8
R+9.9
4,270
R
39.0%Humphrey1,676
53.2%Nixon2,288
7.8%
R+14.2
R+33.0
R+13.5
4,298
D
59.4%Johnson2,739
40.6%Goldwater1,874
0.0%
D+18.8
D+36.7
R+3.8
4,613
R
41.0%Kennedy2,220
59.0%Nixon3,191
0.0%
R+17.9
R+5.9
R+18.1
5,411
R
44.0%Stevenson2,611
56.0%Eisenhower3,326
0.0%
R+12.0
D+10.6
D+3.4
5,937
R
38.6%Stevenson2,424
61.2%Eisenhower3,845
0.2%
R+22.6
R+23.4
R+11.9
6,282
D
50.4%Truman2,868
49.6%Dewey2,823
0.0%
D+0.8
D+17.5
R+3.7
5,693
R
41.6%Roosevelt2,567
58.3%Dewey3,597
0.1%
R+16.7
R+4.1
R+24.2
6,169
R
43.6%Roosevelt3,325
56.2%Willkie4,289
0.1%
R+12.6
R+13.0
R+22.6
7,625
D
50.0%Roosevelt3,953
49.7%Landon3,924
0.3%
D+0.4
R+19.5
R+23.9
7,902
D
59.7%Roosevelt3,523
39.8%Hoover2,351
0.5%
D+19.8
D+40.6
D+2.1
5,906
R
39.5%Smith2,789
60.3%Hoover4,254
0.2%
R+20.8
R+16.1
R+3.3
7,057
R
46.8%Davis3,520
51.4%Coolidge3,869
1.7%La Follette126
R+4.6
D+6.4
D+20.5
7,524
R
43.9%Cox3,560
54.9%Harding4,458
1.2%
R+11.1
R+11.8
D+15.1
8,118
D
49.7%Wilson2,375
49.1%Hughes2,342
1.2%
D+0.7
R+24.9
R+2.5
4,774
D
49.3%Wilson2,284
23.7%Taft1,099
27.0%
D+25.6
D+27.5
D+6.0
4,634
R
48.2%Bryan2,294
50.1%Taft2,388
1.7%
R+2.0
D+2.4
D+7.6
4,763
R
45.9%Parker2,344
50.3%Roosevelt2,568
3.8%
R+4.4
R+10.1
D+15.3
5,104
D
51.0%Bryan2,670
45.3%McKinley2,373
3.8%
D+5.7
R+8.8
D+13.2
5,240
D
56.8%Bryan3,125
42.3%McKinley2,330
0.9%
D+14.4
D+9.4
D+20.5
5,505
D
47.6%Cleveland2,257
42.6%Harrison2,019
9.8%
D+5.0
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4,743
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
22.1%864
75.0%2,934
3,910
2022
R
22.4%608
74.9%2,029
2,709
2018
R
27.2%820
68.7%2,074
3,018
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Daviess County, MO
Year
Total registered
2016
5,408
2018
5,368
2020
5,400
2022
5,269
2024
5,564
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+49 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −316 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $65,967 in average income, against $60,441 for residents who stayed — 9% higher. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+56.5 on average — 6.8 points more Democratic-leaning than Daviess County, MO itself (R+63.3).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Grundy County, MO27R+63.5
Clinton County, MO22R+47.9
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Clinton County, MO31
DeKalb County, MO21
Grundy County, MO20
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 Daviess County, MO in Daviess County, MO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−182
2012
−31
2013
+4
2014
−17
2015
−68
2016
−73
2017
+105
2018
−72
2019
−92
2021
−35
2022
+56
2023
+81
2024
−41
2025
+49
With roughly 8,000 residents spread across northwest Missouri farmland, Daviess County recorded a 63-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the state's most one-sided jurisdictions in recent election history.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 63.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 63.3 points.
A population of 8,477, a 95% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,984 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Scotland County and Gentry 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, Daviess County, Missouri voted Republican by 63.3 points (R+63.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,925 votes cast, 701 went Democratic and 3,185 went Republican.
When did Daviess County, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Daviess County, Missouri voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Daviess County, Missouri?
Daviess County, Missouri has a population of 8,477 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Daviess County, Missouri?
Median household income in Daviess County, Missouri is $63,984 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $70,702.
What is the political history of Daviess County, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Daviess County, Missouri from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
