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
GroupMississippi CountyMissouriUnited States
Irish11.3%11.8%9.4%
English9.7%11.9%9.5%
German9.1%21.3%12.5%
American8.4%6.8%5.3%
Scottish3.5%1.8%1.3%
Italian2.1%3.2%4.8%
Dutch1.4%——
Scotch-Irish0.7%——
African American†18.2%10.0%9.9%
African0.8%0.3%0.5%
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
Mississippi County
Missouri
United States
Median age
41.1
39.2
39.1
Age 18–24
8.4%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
19.0%
17.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Mississippi County
Missouri
United States
Median household income
$48,160
$70,702
$84,427
Poverty rate
19.0%
12.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
14.7%
32.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Mississippi County
Missouri
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.1%
6.7%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Mississippi County
Missouri
United States
Catholic
2.1%
12.5%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
32.5%
24.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.3%
51.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.6%
5.7%
5.2%
Black Protestant
5.5%
2.5%
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.
Mississippi County, Missouri
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 4,449 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Mississippi County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -EAST PRAIRIEEAST PRAIRIE
339
1,852
10
2,201
15.4%
84.1%
R+68.7
Precinct -CHARLESTONCHARLESTON
500
877
12
1,389
36.0%
63.1%
R+27.1
Precinct -BERTRANDBERTRAND
110
500
4
614
17.9%
81.4%
R+63.5
Precinct -WYATTWYATT
51
99
3
153
33.3%
64.7%
R+31.4
Precinct -ANNISTONANNISTON
15
76
1
92
16.3%
82.6%
R+66.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+24.6%
1896
+21.8%
1900
+15.0%
1904
+2.8%
1908
+9.1%
1912
+12.7%
1916
+16.7%
1920
+5.3%
1924
+13.1%
1928
+13.1%
1932
+29.8%
1936
+23.9%
1940
+17.3%
1944
+36.4%
1948
+55.8%
1952
+29.0%
1956
+26.8%
1960
+18.9%
1964
+41.4%
1968
+16.6%
1972
−29.9%
1976
+31.9%
1980
+10.4%
1984
+0.4%
1988
+11.8%
1992
+27.3%
1996
+31.2%
2000
+6.9%
2004
−10.0%
2008
−14.7%
2012
−23.2%
2016
−41.4%
2020
−49.6%
2024
−53.7%
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
22.8%Harris1,015
76.5%Trump3,404
0.5%Oliver22 +1
R+53.7
R+4.1
R+52.2
4,449
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican76.5%3,404
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic22.8%1,015
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%22
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%8
R
24.8%Biden1,178
74.4%Trump3,537
0.6%Jorgensen30
R+49.6
R+8.2
R+54.1
4,756
R
28.2%Clinton1,458
69.6%Trump3,600
1.5%Johnson79
R+41.4
R+18.3
R+43.5
5,169
R
37.8%Obama1,858
60.9%Romney2,997
1.2%Gray59
R+23.2
R+8.5
R+27.0
4,920
R
42.0%Obama2,247
56.6%McCain3,034
1.4%
R+14.7
R+4.7
R+22.0
5,356
R
44.8%Kerry2,374
54.8%Bush2,903
0.4%
R+10.0
R+16.9
R+7.5
5,298
D
52.8%Gore2,756
45.9%Bush2,395
0.6%Nader29
D+6.9
R+24.3
D+6.4
5,215
D
61.6%Clinton3,235
30.4%Dole1,595
7.2%Perot380
D+31.2
D+4.0
D+22.7
5,249
D
56.7%Clinton3,226
29.5%Bush1,675
13.6%Perot776
D+27.3
D+15.5
D+21.7
5,687
D
55.8%Dukakis2,814
44.0%Bush2,218
0.2%
D+11.8
D+11.4
D+19.5
5,042
D
50.2%Mondale2,524
49.8%Reagan2,502
0.0%
D+0.4
R+10.0
D+18.7
5,026
D
54.5%Carter3,040
44.1%Reagan2,459
1.4%
D+10.4
R+21.5
D+20.2
5,579
D
65.8%Carter3,366
33.9%Ford1,733
0.3%
D+31.9
D+61.9
D+29.9
5,116
R
35.0%McGovern1,470
65.0%Nixon2,727
0.0%
R+29.9
R+46.6
R+6.8
4,197
D
43.5%Humphrey2,303
26.8%Nixon1,421
29.7%
D+16.6
R+24.7
D+17.3
5,299
D
70.7%Johnson4,015
29.3%Goldwater1,665
0.0%
D+41.4
D+22.5
D+18.8
5,680
D
59.5%Kennedy3,855
40.5%Nixon2,629
0.0%
D+18.9
R+7.8
D+18.7
6,484
D
63.4%Stevenson3,653
36.6%Eisenhower2,111
0.0%
D+26.8
R+2.2
D+42.2
5,764
D
64.4%Stevenson4,331
35.4%Eisenhower2,380
0.3%
D+29.0
R+26.8
D+39.7
6,730
D
77.6%Truman4,592
21.9%Dewey1,293
0.5%
D+55.8
D+19.4
D+51.3
5,915
D
68.0%Roosevelt4,182
31.6%Dewey1,944
0.4%
D+36.4
D+19.1
D+28.9
6,153
D
58.5%Roosevelt4,362
41.2%Willkie3,073
0.4%
D+17.3
R+6.6
D+7.3
7,462
D
61.7%Roosevelt4,160
37.9%Landon2,552
0.4%
D+23.9
R+6.0
R+0.4
6,737
D
64.6%Roosevelt3,136
34.7%Hoover1,687
0.7%
D+29.8
D+16.7
D+12.0
4,858
D
56.5%Smith2,602
43.4%Hoover1,999
0.2%
D+13.1
±0.0
D+30.5
4,609
D
54.8%Davis2,360
41.7%Coolidge1,797
3.2%La Follette139
D+13.1
D+7.7
D+38.2
4,310
D
52.2%Cox2,442
46.9%Harding2,193
0.9%
D+5.3
R+11.4
D+31.5
4,679
D
57.4%Wilson1,874
40.8%Hughes1,330
1.8%
D+16.7
D+4.0
D+13.5
3,263
D
52.2%Wilson1,388
39.5%Taft1,050
8.3%
D+12.7
D+3.6
R+6.8
2,659
D
53.9%Bryan1,589
44.7%Taft1,320
1.4%
D+9.1
D+6.3
D+18.7
2,950
D
50.2%Parker1,229
47.4%Roosevelt1,161
2.4%
D+2.8
R+12.2
D+22.4
2,449
D
57.0%Bryan1,384
42.0%McKinley1,020
0.9%
D+15.0
R+6.8
D+22.5
2,427
D
60.8%Bryan1,673
39.0%McKinley1,074
0.2%
D+21.8
R+2.9
D+27.8
2,753
D
60.3%Cleveland1,240
35.7%Harrison734
4.0%
D+24.6
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2,056
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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
21.7%942
75.0%3,263
4,351
2022
R
20.4%592
77.2%2,237
2,896
2018
R
31.2%1,193
65.9%2,516
3,820
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Mississippi County, MO
Year
Total registered
2016
8,973
2018
8,246
2020
8,237
2022
7,800
2024
8,111
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+90 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −826 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $37,956 in average income, against $62,767 for residents who stayed — 40% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+55.6 on average — 1.9 points more Republican-leaning than Mississippi County, MO itself (R+53.7).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Scott County, MO69R+58.9
Cape Girardeau County, MO25R+46.5
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Scott County, MO94
Cape Girardeau County, MO26
New Madrid 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 Mississippi County, MO in Mississippi County, MO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−53
2012
+41
2013
−68
2014
+9
2015
−210
2016
−203
2017
−116
2018
−184
2019
−164
2021
+69
2022
−368
2023
+201
2024
+130
2025
+90
Mississippi County sits in Missouri's Bootheel, a flat, agricultural delta region more geographically and culturally akin to the Deep South than the rest of the state. Its small, rural population has shifted toward lopsided Republican margins over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.8 points in 1948 and a Republican high of 53.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.7 points.
A population of 11,902, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $48,160 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lake County and Dunklin 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.
How did Mississippi County, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Mississippi County, Missouri voted Republican by 53.7 points (R+53.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 4,449 votes cast, 1,015 went Democratic and 3,404 went Republican.
When did Mississippi County, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mississippi County, Missouri voted Democratic was 2000.
How many people live in Mississippi County, Missouri?
Mississippi County, Missouri has a population of 11,902 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mississippi County, Missouri?
Median household income in Mississippi County, Missouri is $48,160 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $70,702.
What is the political history of Mississippi County, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mississippi County, Missouri from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 27 went Democratic and 7 went Republican.
