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
GroupCottle CountyTexasUnited States
Irish12.4%6.0%9.4%
German7.2%8.3%12.5%
English6.8%7.9%9.5%
American6.3%4.6%5.3%
French2.3%1.5%1.6%
Danish2.1%——
Italian1.8%1.9%4.8%
Scottish1.8%1.3%1.3%
Mexican37.5%32.1%11.3%
Spanish1.9%——
African American†2.3%10.3%9.9%
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
Cottle County
Texas
United States
Median age
46.4
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
14.4%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
23.1%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Cottle County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$59,063
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.1%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
21.1%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Cottle County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
22.0%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
21.7%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Cottle County
Texas
United States
Catholic
14.2%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
59.2%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
10.2%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
10.9%
4.5%
5.2%
Black Protestant
5.5%
2.2%
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.
Cottle County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 657 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Cottle County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 201Precinct 201
20
171
2
193
10.4%
88.6%
R+78.2
Precinct -Precinct 101Precinct 101
18
171
0
189
9.5%
90.5%
R+81.0
Precinct -Precinct 301Precinct 301
36
109
0
145
24.8%
75.2%
R+50.3
Precinct -Precinct 401Precinct 401
15
114
1
130
11.5%
87.7%
R+76.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+79.1%
1908
+75.1%
1912
+65.1%
1916
+82.8%
1920
+52.9%
1924
+79.2%
1928
−2.4%
1932
+93.8%
1936
+86.8%
1940
+72.8%
1944
+87.2%
1948
+83.7%
1952
+46.9%
1956
+55.1%
1960
+45.3%
1964
+65.9%
1968
+37.1%
1972
+0.6%
1976
+54.1%
1980
+17.5%
1984
+10.1%
1988
+28.7%
1992
+29.0%
1996
+8.9%
2000
−34.5%
2004
−43.6%
2008
−45.7%
2012
−50.6%
2016
−67.6%
2020
−64.5%
2024
−72.5%
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
13.5%Harris89
86.0%Trump565
0.3%Oliver2 +1
R+72.5
R+7.9
R+71.0
657
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican86.0%565
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic13.5%89
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%2
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%1
R
17.1%Biden113
81.6%Trump540
0.9%Jorgensen6
R+64.5
D+3.1
R+69.0
662
R
15.0%Clinton92
82.7%Trump506
2.0%Johnson12
R+67.6
R+17.0
R+69.7
612
R
24.3%Obama180
74.9%Romney555
0.7%Gray5
R+50.6
R+4.9
R+54.5
741
R
26.5%Obama187
72.2%McCain509
1.3%
R+45.7
R+2.1
R+52.9
705
R
27.9%Kerry214
71.5%Bush549
0.7%
R+43.6
R+9.1
R+41.2
768
R
31.8%Gore241
66.3%Bush502
0.4%Nader3
R+34.5
R+43.4
R+35.0
757
D
49.4%Clinton404
40.5%Dole331
9.4%Perot77
D+8.9
R+20.1
D+0.4
818
D
52.9%Clinton542
23.9%Bush245
22.9%Perot235
D+29.0
D+0.3
D+23.4
1,025
D
63.7%Dukakis690
35.0%Bush379
1.3%
D+28.7
D+18.6
D+36.4
1,083
D
54.2%Mondale623
44.1%Reagan507
1.7%
D+10.1
R+7.4
D+28.3
1,150
D
57.8%Carter732
40.4%Reagan511
1.8%
D+17.5
R+36.6
D+27.2
1,266
D
76.9%Carter1,047
22.9%Ford311
0.2%
D+54.1
D+53.5
D+52.0
1,361
D
50.3%McGovern571
49.7%Nixon564
0.0%
D+0.6
R+36.5
D+23.8
1,135
D
58.2%Humphrey742
21.0%Nixon268
20.8%
D+37.1
R+28.8
D+37.8
1,276
D
82.9%Johnson1,122
17.0%Goldwater230
0.1%
D+65.9
D+20.7
D+43.3
1,353
D
72.4%Kennedy986
27.2%Nixon370
0.4%
D+45.3
R+9.8
D+45.1
1,361
D
77.5%Stevenson1,138
22.4%Eisenhower329
0.1%
D+55.1
D+8.1
D+70.5
1,469
D
73.5%Stevenson1,368
26.5%Eisenhower494
0.0%
D+46.9
R+36.8
D+57.7
1,862
D
90.7%Truman1,318
7.0%Dewey102
2.3%
D+83.7
R+3.5
D+79.2
1,453
D
91.9%Roosevelt2,551
4.7%Dewey130
3.4%
D+87.2
D+14.4
D+79.7
2,776
D
86.4%Roosevelt1,506
13.6%Willkie237
0.0%
D+72.8
R+13.9
D+62.9
1,743
D
93.1%Roosevelt1,265
6.3%Landon86
0.6%
D+86.8
R+7.1
D+62.5
1,359
D
96.9%Roosevelt1,196
3.1%Hoover38
0.0%
D+93.8
D+96.2
D+76.1
1,234
R
48.8%Smith451
51.2%Hoover473
0.0%
R+2.4
R+81.6
D+15.1
924
D
88.1%Davis580
9.0%Coolidge59
2.9%La Follette19
D+79.2
D+26.3
D+104.4
658
D
71.1%Cox472
18.2%Harding121
10.7%
D+52.9
R+29.9
D+79.1
664
D
85.0%Wilson455
2.2%Hughes12
12.7%
D+82.8
D+17.7
D+79.7
535
D
67.1%Wilson277
1.9%Taft8
31.0%
D+65.1
R+10.0
D+45.6
413
D
84.9%Bryan157
9.7%Taft18
5.4%
D+75.1
R+3.9
D+84.7
185
D
88.2%Parker135
9.2%Roosevelt14
2.6%
D+79.1
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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
14.0%90
84.6%544
643
2020
R
16.8%110
81.4%534
656
2018
R
17.4%97
82.2%458
557
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Cottle County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
1,077
2018
1,062
2020
1,041
2022
956
2024
994
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−34 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −109 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $37,458 in average income, against $69,683 for residents who stayed — 46% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
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 Cottle County, TX in Cottle County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1
2012
−18
2013
−18
2014
−3
2015
+21
2016
−22
2017
−12
2018
+7
2019
+16
2021
+11
2022
−27
2023
−12
2024
−19
2025
−34
Cottle County on the Rolling Plains has shed more than 80% of its mid-century population, and its remaining residents have voted Republican by some of the widest margins in the state across recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 72.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 7.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 72.5 points.
A population of 1,368, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,063 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Briscoe County and Dickens 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, Cottle County, Texas voted Republican by 72.5 points (R+72.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 657 votes cast, 89 went Democratic and 565 went Republican.
When did Cottle County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cottle County, Texas voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Cottle County, Texas?
Cottle County, Texas has a population of 1,368 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cottle County, Texas?
Median household income in Cottle County, Texas is $59,063 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Cottle County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Cottle County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 8 went Republican.
