Brooks County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted D+10%. Democratic peak: D+75 in 1932.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 6,9432024 5-year
- Median household income
- $47,7642024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 90.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Jim Hogg County, TX · similarity 0.99
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Brooks CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Brooks County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Margin—
Turnout—
Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +66.7% |
| 1916 | +22.8% |
| 1920 | +54.9% |
| 1924 | +54.5% |
| 1928 | +35.0% |
| 1932 | +74.9% |
| 1936 | +51.3% |
| 1940 | +53.6% |
| 1944 | +41.1% |
| 1948 | +63.3% |
| 1952 | +32.2% |
| 1956 | +15.9% |
| 1960 | +54.4% |
| 1964 | +70.2% |
| 1968 | +52.6% |
| 1972 | +19.4% |
| 1976 | +62.4% |
| 1980 | +51.2% |
| 1984 | +50.0% |
| 1988 | +64.5% |
| 1992 | +60.3% |
| 1996 | +72.6% |
| 2000 | +53.4% |
| 2004 | +36.6% |
| 2008 | +51.6% |
| 2012 | +57.4% |
| 2016 | +51.0% |
| 2020 | +19.0% |
| 2024 | +9.6% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 1,308 | 1,077 | 2,402 | ||
| D | 1,470 | 998 | 2,484 | ||
| D | 1,937 | 613 | 2,596 | ||
| D | 1,886 | 507 | 2,403 | ||
| D | 1,747 | 556 | 2,309 | ||
| D | 1,823 | 845 | 2,674 | ||
| D | 1,854 | 556 | 2,431 | ||
| D | 2,945 | 413 | 3,488 | ||
| D | 2,856 | 585 | 3,765 | ||
| D | 2,859 | 608 | 3,489 | ||
| D | 2,702 | 896 | 3,614 | ||
| D | 2,488 | 780 | 3,333 | ||
| D | 2,782 | 641 | 3,429 | ||
| D | 1,657 | 1,117 | 2,781 | ||
| D | 1,904 | 534 | 2,604 | ||
| D | 2,299 | 402 | 2,703 | ||
| D | 1,934 | 567 | 2,511 | ||
| D | 1,108 | 802 | 1,920 | ||
| D | 1,577 | 809 | 2,387 | ||
| D | 1,029 | 217 | 1,282 | ||
| D | 403 | 142 | 635 | ||
| D | 670 | 201 | 875 | ||
| D | 365 | 117 | 483 | ||
| D | 608 | 86 | 697 | ||
| D | 332 | 160 | 492 | ||
| D | 205 | 59 | 268 | ||
| D | 127 | 37 | 164 | ||
| D | 101 | 63 | 167 | ||
| D | 402 | 13 | 583 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
4.8%
French
4.1%
English
1.0%
Italian
1.0%
American
0.7%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 38.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$47,764
Brooks County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.
Brooks County$47,764
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
Brooks County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
19.4%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1821.0%
Working age (18–64)15.7%
Seniors (65+)40.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
41.2%
speak English only
Spanish58.2%
Other languages0.6%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 28.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Brooks County, anchored by Falfurrias, is over 95% Hispanic and sits squarely in the brush country of the Rio Grande Plain — a demographic profile that has long produced Democratic margins, though the party's advantage here narrowed noticeably between 2016 and 2024.
Brooks County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of seventy-five points in 1932. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved nine points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $47,764, and a population of 6,943. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jim Hogg County and Dimmit County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Brooks County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Brooks County, Texas voted Democratic by 9.6 points (D+10), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,402 votes cast, 1,308 went Democratic and 1,077 went Republican.
What is Brooks County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places Brooks County, Texas in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 29 times, Republican 0 times, and other 0 times.
How many people live in Brooks County, Texas?
Brooks County, Texas has a population of 6,943 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Brooks County, Texas?
Median household income in Brooks County, Texas is $47,764 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Brooks County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Brooks County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 29 went Democratic and 0 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.