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
GroupDickens CountyTexasUnited States
English10.0%7.9%9.5%
Irish9.0%6.0%9.4%
American6.8%4.6%5.3%
German3.9%8.3%12.5%
Scottish3.0%1.3%1.3%
Welsh2.1%——
Dutch1.0%——
French0.7%1.5%1.6%
Mexican25.6%32.1%11.3%
Spanish0.2%——
Chinese1.5%0.8%1.3%
African American†1.4%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
Dickens County
Texas
United States
Median age
47.6
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
6.6%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
26.8%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Dickens County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$49,335
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
18.0%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.0%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Dickens County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
19.2%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
17.9%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Dickens County
Texas
United States
Catholic
16.8%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
48.8%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
22.9%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
11.5%
4.5%
5.2%
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.
Dickens County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
6 precincts · 993 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Dickens County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 6Precinct 6
27
201
1
229
11.8%
87.8%
R+76.0
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
50
176
1
227
22.0%
77.5%
R+55.5
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
29
136
0
165
17.6%
82.4%
R+64.8
Precinct -Precinct 5Precinct 5
19
145
0
164
11.6%
88.4%
R+76.8
Precinct -Precinct 2Precinct 2
12
114
1
127
9.4%
89.8%
R+80.3
Precinct -Precinct 1Precinct 1
9
72
0
81
11.1%
88.9%
R+77.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+71.0%
1908
+67.1%
1912
+61.0%
1916
+84.4%
1920
+56.0%
1924
+67.5%
1928
−28.2%
1932
+91.4%
1936
+85.2%
1940
+74.9%
1944
+78.6%
1948
+81.0%
1952
+22.9%
1956
+37.5%
1960
+34.5%
1964
+59.1%
1968
+25.0%
1972
−14.0%
1976
+56.0%
1980
+24.2%
1984
+7.6%
1988
+22.9%
1992
+14.1%
1996
+8.4%
2000
−34.6%
2004
−53.6%
2008
−51.0%
2012
−56.6%
2016
−69.0%
2020
−73.2%
2024
−70.3%
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
14.7%Harris146
85.0%Trump844
0.2%Oliver2 +1
R+70.3
D+2.9
R+68.8
993
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican85.0%844
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.7%146
Chase OliverLibertarian0.2%2
Jill SteinIndependent0.1%1
R
13.2%Biden130
86.3%Trump853
0.3%Jorgensen3
R+73.2
R+4.2
R+77.6
988
R
14.1%Clinton128
83.1%Trump755
2.5%Johnson23
R+69.0
R+12.4
R+71.1
909
R
21.2%Obama216
77.8%Romney793
0.9%Gray9
R+56.6
R+5.6
R+60.5
1,019
R
24.1%Obama234
75.1%McCain730
0.8%
R+51.0
D+2.6
R+58.3
972
R
23.0%Kerry245
76.7%Bush815
0.3%
R+53.6
R+19.0
R+51.2
1,063
R
32.2%Gore284
66.9%Bush589
0.3%Nader3
R+34.6
R+43.0
R+35.1
881
D
48.3%Clinton509
40.0%Dole421
11.1%Perot117
D+8.4
R+5.7
R+0.2
1,053
D
46.2%Clinton536
32.2%Bush373
21.6%Perot250
D+14.1
R+8.8
D+8.5
1,160
D
61.0%Dukakis696
38.1%Bush435
0.9%
D+22.9
D+15.3
D+30.6
1,141
D
53.5%Mondale692
45.9%Reagan594
0.6%
D+7.6
R+16.6
D+25.8
1,294
D
61.6%Carter912
37.4%Reagan554
1.0%
D+24.2
R+31.8
D+33.9
1,481
D
77.8%Carter1,222
21.8%Ford343
0.4%
D+56.0
D+69.9
D+53.9
1,571
R
42.9%McGovern534
56.9%Nixon708
0.2%
R+14.0
R+38.9
D+9.2
1,245
D
52.9%Humphrey811
27.9%Nixon428
19.2%
D+25.0
R+34.1
D+25.7
1,534
D
79.4%Johnson1,324
20.3%Goldwater339
0.2%
D+59.1
D+24.6
D+36.5
1,667
D
66.9%Kennedy1,075
32.4%Nixon521
0.7%
D+34.5
R+3.0
D+34.3
1,607
D
68.8%Stevenson1,243
31.3%Eisenhower565
0.0%
D+37.5
D+14.6
D+52.9
1,808
D
61.4%Stevenson1,249
38.4%Eisenhower782
0.2%
D+22.9
R+58.1
D+33.7
2,035
D
87.8%Truman1,492
6.8%Dewey115
5.5%
D+81.0
D+2.4
D+76.5
1,700
D
86.1%Roosevelt1,617
7.5%Dewey141
6.4%
D+78.6
D+3.7
D+71.1
1,879
D
87.3%Roosevelt1,728
12.4%Willkie246
0.3%
D+74.9
R+10.3
D+64.9
1,979
D
92.6%Roosevelt1,445
7.4%Landon115
0.1%
D+85.2
R+6.2
D+60.9
1,561
D
95.5%Roosevelt1,491
4.0%Hoover63
0.5%
D+91.4
D+119.6
D+73.6
1,562
R
35.9%Smith415
64.1%Hoover741
0.0%
R+28.2
R+95.7
R+10.7
1,156
D
83.2%Davis849
15.8%Coolidge161
1.0%La Follette10
D+67.5
D+11.5
D+92.6
1,020
D
74.8%Cox433
18.8%Harding109
6.4%
D+56.0
R+28.5
D+82.1
579
D
87.8%Wilson389
3.4%Hughes15
8.8%
D+84.4
D+23.4
D+81.3
443
D
63.5%Wilson277
2.5%Taft11
33.9%
D+61.0
R+6.1
D+41.5
436
D
78.3%Bryan195
11.2%Taft28
10.4%
D+67.1
R+4.0
D+76.6
249
D
79.6%Parker195
8.6%Roosevelt21
11.8%
D+71.0
—
D+90.7
245
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
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
15.1%148
83.1%817
983
2020
R
13.9%133
84.3%808
958
2018
R
15.0%113
84.2%635
754
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Dickens County, TX
Year
Total registered
2018
1,268
2020
1,328
2022
1,370
2024
1,433
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+8 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −187 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $59,596 in average income, against $59,874 for residents who stayed. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Lubbock County, TX23
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 Dickens County, TX in Dickens County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−47
2012
−69
2013
−28
2014
−72
2015
0
2016
−7
2017
+1
2018
+34
2019
−4
2021
0
2022
+6
2023
−20
2024
+11
2025
+8
Dickens County on the Texas Panhandle plains logged an R+70.3 presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deep rural realignment that has reshaped sparsely populated West Texas counties over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 73.2 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.3 points.
A population of 1,747, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,335 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Briscoe County and Knox 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, Dickens County, Texas voted Republican by 70.3 points (R+70.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 993 votes cast, 146 went Democratic and 844 went Republican.
When did Dickens County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Dickens County, Texas voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Dickens County, Texas?
Dickens County, Texas has a population of 1,747 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Dickens County, Texas?
Median household income in Dickens County, Texas is $49,335 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Dickens County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Dickens County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
