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
GroupHancock CountyTennesseeUnited States
English19.2%13.3%9.5%
American18.9%11.3%5.3%
Irish7.6%9.3%9.4%
German4.9%9.1%12.5%
Italian2.5%2.2%4.8%
Scottish0.9%2.2%1.3%
Polish0.5%—2.2%
French0.5%1.3%1.6%
Mexican1.3%3.8%11.3%
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
Hancock County
Tennessee
United States
Median age
43.1
39.3
39.1
Age 18–24
7.9%
8.9%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
22.4%
17.1%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Hancock County
Tennessee
United States
Median household income
$34,960
$69,595
$84,427
Poverty rate
32.2%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
10.8%
31.3%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Hancock County
Tennessee
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.9%
8.7%
22.3%
Spanish
1.1%
5.3%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Hancock County
Tennessee
United States
Catholic
0.5%
4.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
78.4%
36.6%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
18.7%
44.5%
51.5%
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.
Hancock County, Tennessee
Precinct data
Results by precinct
7 precincts · 2,908 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Hancock County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -1st1st
68
490
2
560
12.1%
87.5%
R+75.4
Precinct -7th7th
85
446
3
534
15.9%
83.5%
R+67.6
Precinct -3rd3rd
53
378
3
434
12.2%
87.1%
R+74.9
Precinct -2nd2nd
30
388
2
420
7.1%
92.4%
R+85.2
Precinct -4th4th
39
330
2
371
10.5%
88.9%
R+78.4
Precinct -5th5th
24
293
2
319
7.5%
91.8%
R+84.3
Precinct -6th6th
35
233
2
270
13.0%
86.3%
R+73.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−35.8%
1896
−52.9%
1900
−57.8%
1904
−53.0%
1908
−58.1%
1912
−19.8%
1916
−52.2%
1920
−63.8%
1924
−54.0%
1928
−65.6%
1932
−32.8%
1936
−27.1%
1940
−24.4%
1944
−63.4%
1948
−57.2%
1952
−59.6%
1956
−68.3%
1960
−65.4%
1964
−37.7%
1968
−57.3%
1972
−63.9%
1976
−26.1%
1980
−41.4%
1984
−40.9%
1988
−27.2%
1992
−11.2%
1996
−23.2%
2000
−31.5%
2004
−38.4%
2008
−43.9%
2012
−51.4%
2016
−68.2%
2020
−77.3%
2024
−76.5%
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
11.5%Harris334
88.0%Trump2,558
0.3%Kennedy9 +1
R+76.5
D+0.8
R+75.0
2,908
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican88.0%2,558
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic11.5%334
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent0.3%9
Jay J BowmanIndependent0.2%7
R
9.1%Biden251
86.4%Trump2,372
0.2%BLA5
R+77.3
R+9.1
R+81.7
2,744
R
14.4%Clinton322
82.6%Trump1,843
1.9%Johnson42
R+68.2
R+16.8
R+70.3
2,231
R
23.2%Obama475
74.6%Romney1,527
2.2%
R+51.4
R+7.5
R+55.3
2,046
R
27.0%Obama604
70.9%McCain1,588
2.2%
R+43.9
R+5.5
R+51.2
2,241
R
30.5%Kerry777
68.8%Bush1,756
0.7%
R+38.4
R+6.9
R+35.9
2,551
R
33.3%Gore690
64.7%Bush1,343
0.8%Nader17
R+31.5
R+8.3
R+32.0
2,075
R
35.3%Clinton760
58.4%Dole1,259
5.4%Perot116
R+23.2
R+12.0
R+31.7
2,154
R
40.8%Clinton1,000
52.0%Bush1,274
6.2%Perot151
R+11.2
D+16.0
R+16.7
2,449
R
35.4%Dukakis737
62.6%Bush1,303
2.0%
R+27.2
D+13.7
R+19.5
2,082
R
29.0%Mondale619
69.9%Reagan1,491
1.1%
R+40.9
D+0.6
R+22.6
2,134
R
28.3%Carter704
69.7%Reagan1,734
2.0%
R+41.4
R+15.3
R+31.7
2,487
R
36.6%Carter764
62.6%Ford1,309
0.8%
R+26.1
D+37.8
R+28.1
2,090
R
17.7%McGovern393
81.6%Nixon1,813
0.7%
R+63.9
R+6.6
R+40.8
2,222
R
15.6%Humphrey318
72.9%Nixon1,489
11.6%
R+57.3
R+19.7
R+56.6
2,043
R
31.2%Johnson687
68.8%Goldwater1,517
0.0%
R+37.7
D+27.7
R+60.2
2,204
R
17.2%Kennedy438
82.6%Nixon2,107
0.3%
R+65.4
D+2.9
R+65.6
2,552
R
15.0%Stevenson350
83.3%Eisenhower1,939
1.7%
R+68.3
R+8.7
R+52.9
2,328
R
19.9%Stevenson458
79.5%Eisenhower1,830
0.6%
R+59.6
R+2.4
R+48.8
2,302
R
20.1%Truman416
77.4%Dewey1,598
2.5%
R+57.2
D+6.1
R+61.7
2,065
R
18.2%Roosevelt431
81.6%Dewey1,929
0.2%
R+63.4
R+39.0
R+70.9
2,364
R
37.5%Roosevelt1,014
61.9%Willkie1,673
0.5%
R+24.4
D+2.7
R+34.3
2,701
R
36.5%Roosevelt960
63.5%Landon1,673
0.0%
R+27.1
D+5.7
R+51.3
2,633
R
33.6%Roosevelt551
66.4%Hoover1,089
0.0%
R+32.8
D+32.8
R+50.6
1,640
R
17.2%Smith216
82.8%Hoover1,039
0.0%
R+65.6
R+11.6
R+48.1
1,255
R
22.8%Davis305
76.7%Coolidge1,028
0.5%La Follette7
R+54.0
D+9.9
R+28.8
1,340
R
18.1%Cox384
81.9%Harding1,740
0.0%
R+63.8
R+11.6
R+37.7
2,124
R
23.9%Wilson386
76.1%Hughes1,229
0.0%
R+52.2
R+32.4
R+55.3
1,615
R
36.5%Wilson427
56.3%Taft659
7.2%
R+19.8
D+38.3
R+39.4
1,170
R
21.0%Bryan370
79.0%Taft1,396
0.0%
R+58.1
R+5.1
R+48.5
1,766
R
23.5%Parker382
76.5%Roosevelt1,244
0.0%
R+53.0
D+4.8
R+33.3
1,626
R
21.1%Bryan382
78.9%McKinley1,429
0.0%
R+57.8
R+4.9
R+50.3
1,811
R
23.3%Bryan456
76.3%McKinley1,490
0.4%
R+52.9
R+17.2
R+46.9
1,953
R
27.4%Cleveland421
63.1%Harrison971
9.5%
R+35.8
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R+37.4
1,538
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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
12.5%343
85.9%2,365
2,754
2020
R
12.0%301
86.4%2,159
2,499
2018
R
23.7%422
74.6%1,327
1,780
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Hancock County, TN
Year
Total registered
2016
4,966
2018
4,805
2020
4,479
2022
4,602
2024
4,472
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+80 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +800 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $49,798 in average income, against $46,440 for residents who stayed — 7% higher. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Claiborne County, TN20
Hamblen County, TN20
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 Hancock County, TN in Hancock County, TN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−50
2012
−29
2013
−5
2014
+24
2015
+14
2016
+25
2017
+31
2018
−2
2019
+82
2021
+210
2022
+124
2023
+177
2024
+119
2025
+80
Hancock County, tucked in the Clinch Mountain hollows of northeast Tennessee, recorded an R+76.5 presidential margin in 2024—among the widest in the state—reflecting a rural Appalachian electorate with deep ancestral roots and one of Tennessee's smallest county populations.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 77.3 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 0.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.5 points.
A population of 6,852, a 95% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $34,960 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wayne 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, Hancock County, Tennessee voted Republican by 76.5 points (R+76.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,908 votes cast, 334 went Democratic and 2,558 went Republican.
How many people live in Hancock County, Tennessee?
Hancock County, Tennessee has a population of 6,852 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hancock County, Tennessee?
Median household income in Hancock County, Tennessee is $34,960 — below the national median of $80,734. The Tennessee state median is $69,595.
What is the political history of Hancock County, Tennessee?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Hancock County, Tennessee from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 34 went Republican.
