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
GroupGentry CountyMissouriUnited States
German22.9%21.3%12.5%
English13.8%11.9%9.5%
American13.0%6.8%5.3%
Irish11.7%11.8%9.4%
Scottish2.5%1.8%1.3%
French2.0%2.2%1.6%
Dutch1.7%——
Swedish1.4%——
Mexican0.8%3.2%11.3%
Spaniard0.6%——
Spanish0.2%——
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
Gentry County
Missouri
United States
Median age
40.2
39.2
39.1
Age 18–24
6.9%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.7%
17.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Gentry County
Missouri
United States
Median household income
$55,848
$70,702
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.9%
12.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
21.6%
32.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Gentry County
Missouri
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.7%
6.7%
22.3%
German or other West Germanic
2.5%
0.5%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Gentry County
Missouri
United States
Catholic
4.9%
12.5%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
50.4%
24.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
27.0%
51.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
14.3%
5.7%
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.
Gentry County, Missouri
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 3,292 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Gentry County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -HUNDLEY WHALEY RESEARCH CENTERHUNDLEY WHALEY RESEARCH CENTER
276
1,101
12
1,389
19.9%
79.3%
R+59.4
Precinct -STANBERRY COMMUNITY CENTERSTANBERRY COMMUNITY CENTER
173
781
6
960
18.0%
81.4%
R+63.3
Precinct -SMITHVEALE COMMUNITY CENTERSMITHVEALE COMMUNITY CENTER
150
659
7
816
18.4%
80.8%
R+62.4
Precinct -BOGLE GENTRYBOGLE GENTRY
17
110
0
127
13.4%
86.6%
R+73.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+9.3%
1896
+18.3%
1900
+5.7%
1904
+2.2%
1908
+8.4%
1912
+23.9%
1916
+13.5%
1920
−1.0%
1924
+3.3%
1928
−12.3%
1932
+32.4%
1936
+14.5%
1940
+3.4%
1944
+0.9%
1948
+12.9%
1952
−15.5%
1956
−6.3%
1960
−8.4%
1964
+31.2%
1968
−2.1%
1972
−29.0%
1976
+11.8%
1980
−7.4%
1984
−12.3%
1988
+9.3%
1992
+6.6%
1996
+4.0%
2000
−16.1%
2004
−26.7%
2008
−22.1%
2012
−35.0%
2016
−55.8%
2020
−60.8%
2024
−61.8%
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%Harris616
80.5%Trump2,651
0.5%Oliver16 +1
R+61.8
R+1.0
R+60.3
3,292
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican80.5%2,651
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic18.7%616
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%16
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%9
R
18.9%Biden613
79.7%Trump2,581
1.1%Jorgensen34
R+60.8
R+5.0
R+65.2
3,237
R
19.9%Clinton605
75.7%Trump2,304
3.5%Johnson108
R+55.8
R+20.8
R+57.9
3,043
R
31.2%Obama937
66.3%Romney1,988
2.1%Gray63
R+35.0
R+12.9
R+38.9
2,999
R
37.5%Obama1,235
59.7%McCain1,964
2.8%
R+22.1
D+4.5
R+29.4
3,292
R
36.3%Kerry1,201
63.0%Bush2,085
0.8%
R+26.7
R+10.6
R+24.2
3,312
R
40.9%Gore1,271
57.0%Bush1,771
1.3%Nader39
R+16.1
R+20.1
R+16.6
3,105
D
45.4%Clinton1,493
41.4%Dole1,361
12.6%Perot416
D+4.0
R+2.6
R+4.5
3,291
D
40.8%Clinton1,519
34.2%Bush1,272
24.7%Perot921
D+6.6
R+2.6
D+1.1
3,724
D
54.5%Dukakis1,872
45.3%Bush1,554
0.2%
D+9.3
D+21.5
D+17.0
3,433
R
43.9%Mondale1,600
56.1%Reagan2,047
0.0%
R+12.3
R+4.9
D+6.0
3,647
R
44.5%Carter1,720
51.8%Reagan2,005
3.7%
R+7.4
R+19.2
D+2.4
3,869
D
55.7%Carter2,249
43.9%Ford1,772
0.3%
D+11.8
D+40.8
D+9.8
4,035
R
35.5%McGovern1,642
64.5%Nixon2,984
0.0%
R+29.0
R+26.9
R+5.9
4,626
R
46.7%Humphrey2,189
48.7%Nixon2,286
4.6%
R+2.1
R+33.3
R+1.4
4,691
D
65.6%Johnson3,198
34.4%Goldwater1,677
0.0%
D+31.2
D+39.6
D+8.6
4,875
R
45.8%Kennedy2,439
54.2%Nixon2,888
0.0%
R+8.4
R+2.1
R+8.6
5,327
R
46.8%Stevenson2,662
53.2%Eisenhower3,020
0.0%
R+6.3
D+9.2
D+9.1
5,682
R
42.2%Stevenson2,508
57.8%Eisenhower3,429
0.0%
R+15.5
R+28.4
R+4.8
5,937
D
56.4%Truman3,410
43.6%Dewey2,633
0.0%
D+12.9
D+12.0
D+8.4
6,044
D
50.4%Roosevelt3,022
49.5%Dewey2,970
0.1%
D+0.9
R+2.5
R+6.6
6,000
D
51.6%Roosevelt3,689
48.2%Willkie3,446
0.3%
D+3.4
R+11.1
R+6.5
7,154
D
57.1%Roosevelt4,173
42.6%Landon3,115
0.2%
D+14.5
R+17.9
R+9.8
7,306
D
66.1%Roosevelt3,677
33.7%Hoover1,877
0.2%
D+32.4
D+44.7
D+14.6
5,563
R
43.7%Smith2,735
56.0%Hoover3,506
0.2%
R+12.3
R+15.6
D+5.1
6,256
D
49.2%Davis3,555
45.9%Coolidge3,318
4.7%La Follette340
D+3.3
D+4.3
D+28.5
7,222
R
48.7%Cox3,374
49.7%Harding3,442
1.6%
R+1.0
R+14.5
D+25.2
6,929
D
55.8%Wilson2,404
42.3%Hughes1,823
1.9%
D+13.5
R+10.4
D+10.3
4,308
D
54.2%Wilson2,268
30.3%Taft1,268
15.4%
D+23.9
D+15.5
D+4.4
4,181
D
53.2%Bryan2,236
44.7%Taft1,882
2.1%
D+8.4
D+6.2
D+18.0
4,206
D
49.1%Parker2,157
46.9%Roosevelt2,060
4.0%
D+2.2
R+3.5
D+21.9
4,391
D
51.1%Bryan2,459
45.4%McKinley2,185
3.4%
D+5.7
R+12.6
D+13.2
4,809
D
58.7%Bryan2,906
40.4%McKinley2,000
0.9%
D+18.3
D+9.0
D+24.4
4,953
D
47.2%Cleveland2,003
37.8%Harrison1,607
15.0%
D+9.3
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4,248
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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
22.6%735
75.3%2,450
3,255
2022
R
22.7%528
75.2%1,748
2,325
2018
R
28.8%734
66.3%1,689
2,547
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Gentry County, MO
Year
Total registered
2016
4,706
2018
4,661
2020
4,685
2022
4,707
2024
4,781
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+69 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +96 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $46,375 in average income, against $56,314 for residents who stayed — 18% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+28.0 on average — 34 points more Democratic-leaning than Gentry County, MO itself (R+61.8).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Buchanan County, MO22R+28.0
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Nodaway County, MO29
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 Gentry County, MO in Gentry County, MO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+71
2012
−58
2013
−26
2014
+15
2015
−127
2016
−34
2017
+14
2018
−26
2019
−19
2021
+75
2022
+115
2023
+28
2024
−1
2025
+69
Gentry County, tucked into Missouri's northwest corner, recorded an R+61.8 margin in 2024, reflecting the deep Republican consolidation that has reshaped small-population agricultural counties across the western Plains fringe over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 61.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.8 points.
A population of 6,245, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,848 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Macon County and Grundy 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, Gentry County, Missouri voted Republican by 61.8 points (R+61.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,292 votes cast, 616 went Democratic and 2,651 went Republican.
When did Gentry County, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Gentry County, Missouri voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Gentry County, Missouri?
Gentry County, Missouri has a population of 6,245 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gentry County, Missouri?
Median household income in Gentry County, Missouri is $55,848 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $70,702.
What is the political history of Gentry County, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Gentry County, Missouri from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
