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
GroupBrooks CountyTexasUnited States
Mexican83.9%32.1%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.2%0.8%1.8%
Salvadoran0.6%1.2%0.7%
Spaniard0.3%0.3%—
Guatemalan0.2%0.4%0.5%
Colombian0.2%0.3%0.4%
German4.8%8.3%12.5%
French4.1%1.5%1.6%
English1.0%7.9%9.5%
Italian1.0%1.9%4.8%
American0.7%4.6%5.3%
Irish0.4%6.0%9.4%
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
Brooks County
Texas
United States
Median age
38.5
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
7.6%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.5%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Brooks County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$47,764
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
19.4%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
17.0%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Brooks County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
58.8%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
58.2%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Brooks County
Texas
United States
Catholic
60.9%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
9.1%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
28.3%
45.2%
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.
Brooks County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 2,402 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Brooks County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
332
288
2
622
53.4%
46.3%
D+7.1
Precinct -Precinct 2Precinct 2
309
294
5
608
50.8%
48.4%
D+2.5
Precinct -Precinct 1Precinct 1
325
229
6
560
58.0%
40.9%
D+17.1
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
273
185
4
462
59.1%
40.0%
D+19.0
Precinct -Precinct 3SPrecinct 3S
69
81
0
150
46.0%
54.0%
R+8.0
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1912–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
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
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
D
54.5%Harris1,308
44.8%Trump1,077
0.4%Stein9 +1
D+9.6
R+9.4
D+11.1
2,402
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic54.5%1,308
Donald J TrumpRepublican44.8%1,077
Jill SteinIndependent0.4%9
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%8
D
59.2%Biden1,470
40.2%Trump998
0.4%Jorgensen10
D+19.0
R+32.0
D+14.6
2,484
D
74.6%Clinton1,937
23.6%Trump613
1.2%Johnson32
D+51.0
R+6.4
D+48.9
2,596
D
78.5%Obama1,886
21.1%Romney507
0.2%Gray6
D+57.4
D+5.8
D+53.5
2,403
D
75.7%Obama1,747
24.1%McCain556
0.3%
D+51.6
D+15.0
D+44.3
2,309
D
68.2%Kerry1,823
31.6%Bush845
0.2%
D+36.6
R+16.8
D+39.0
2,674
D
76.3%Gore1,854
22.9%Bush556
0.6%Nader14
D+53.4
R+19.2
D+52.9
2,431
D
84.4%Clinton2,945
11.8%Dole413
3.1%Perot108
D+72.6
D+12.3
D+64.1
3,488
D
75.9%Clinton2,856
15.5%Bush585
8.4%Perot318
D+60.3
R+4.2
D+54.8
3,765
D
81.9%Dukakis2,859
17.4%Bush608
0.6%
D+64.5
D+14.5
D+72.2
3,489
D
74.8%Mondale2,702
24.8%Reagan896
0.4%
D+50.0
R+1.3
D+68.2
3,614
D
74.6%Carter2,488
23.4%Reagan780
2.0%
D+51.2
R+11.2
D+61.0
3,333
D
81.1%Carter2,782
18.7%Ford641
0.2%
D+62.4
D+43.0
D+60.4
3,429
D
59.6%McGovern1,657
40.2%Nixon1,117
0.3%
D+19.4
R+33.2
D+42.6
2,781
D
73.1%Humphrey1,904
20.5%Nixon534
6.4%
D+52.6
R+17.6
D+53.3
2,604
D
85.1%Johnson2,299
14.9%Goldwater402
0.1%
D+70.2
D+15.7
D+47.6
2,703
D
77.0%Kennedy1,934
22.6%Nixon567
0.4%
D+54.4
D+38.5
D+54.3
2,511
D
57.7%Stevenson1,108
41.8%Eisenhower802
0.5%
D+15.9
R+16.2
D+31.3
1,920
D
66.1%Stevenson1,577
33.9%Eisenhower809
0.0%
D+32.2
R+31.2
D+42.9
2,387
D
80.3%Truman1,029
16.9%Dewey217
2.8%
D+63.3
D+22.2
D+58.9
1,282
D
63.5%Roosevelt403
22.4%Dewey142
14.2%
D+41.1
R+12.5
D+33.6
635
D
76.6%Roosevelt670
23.0%Willkie201
0.5%
D+53.6
D+2.3
D+43.7
875
D
75.6%Roosevelt365
24.2%Landon117
0.2%
D+51.3
R+23.5
D+27.1
483
D
87.2%Roosevelt608
12.3%Hoover86
0.4%
D+74.9
D+39.9
D+57.1
697
D
67.5%Smith332
32.5%Hoover160
0.0%
D+35.0
R+19.5
D+52.4
492
D
76.5%Davis205
22.0%Coolidge59
1.5%La Follette4
D+54.5
R+0.4
D+79.7
268
D
77.4%Cox127
22.6%Harding37
0.0%
D+54.9
D+32.1
D+81.1
164
D
60.5%Wilson101
37.7%Hughes63
1.8%
D+22.8
R+44.0
D+19.6
167
D
69.0%Wilson402
2.2%Taft13
28.8%
D+66.7
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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
D
59.9%1,379
38.0%874
2,302
2020
D
60.5%1,425
36.5%859
2,356
2018
D
71.6%1,376
28.2%543
1,923
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Brooks County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
6,428
2018
5,524
2020
5,521
2022
5,152
2024
4,945
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−114 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,367 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $37,794 in average income, against $40,144 for residents who stayed — 6% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+13.9 on average — 24 points more Republican-leaning than Brooks County, TX itself (D+9.6).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Jim Wells County, TX30R+15.5
Nueces County, TX20R+11.5
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Nueces County, TX33
Jim Wells County, TX29
Kleberg County, TX20
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 Brooks County, TX in Brooks County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−77
2012
−111
2013
−14
2014
−101
2015
−111
2016
−83
2017
−139
2018
−112
2019
−72
2021
−51
2022
−109
2023
−91
2024
−182
2025
−114
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.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.9 points in 1932. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 9.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.6 points.
A population of 6,943, a 7% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,764 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Zavala County and Dimmit 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, Brooks County, Texas voted Democratic by 9.6 points (D+9.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,402 votes cast, 1,308 went Democratic and 1,077 went Republican.
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.
