Jim Hogg County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted D+8%. Democratic peak: D+89 in 1916.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 4,7272024 5-year
- Median household income
- $42,2112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 91.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Brooks County, TX · similarity 0.99
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Jim Hogg CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Jim Hogg County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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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 | No data |
| 1916 | +88.9% |
| 1920 | +50.5% |
| 1924 | +75.9% |
| 1928 | +41.4% |
| 1932 | +78.7% |
| 1936 | +87.4% |
| 1940 | +78.0% |
| 1944 | +76.2% |
| 1948 | +78.6% |
| 1952 | +54.6% |
| 1956 | +37.0% |
| 1960 | +69.7% |
| 1964 | +79.9% |
| 1968 | +67.7% |
| 1972 | +5.1% |
| 1976 | +58.6% |
| 1980 | +45.2% |
| 1984 | +47.3% |
| 1988 | +52.3% |
| 1992 | +49.4% |
| 1996 | +62.4% |
| 2000 | +41.2% |
| 2004 | +30.6% |
| 2008 | +47.6% |
| 2012 | +56.7% |
| 2016 | +56.9% |
| 2020 | +17.9% |
| 2024 | +8.3% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 856 | 725 | 1,585 | ||
| D | 1,197 | 833 | 2,036 | ||
| D | 1,635 | 430 | 2,119 | ||
| D | 1,301 | 356 | 1,667 | ||
| D | 1,336 | 472 | 1,815 | ||
| D | 1,344 | 712 | 2,065 | ||
| D | 1,512 | 623 | 2,157 | ||
| D | 1,437 | 307 | 1,812 | ||
| D | 1,520 | 478 | 2,110 | ||
| D | 1,630 | 510 | 2,143 | ||
| D | 1,703 | 608 | 2,313 | ||
| D | 1,437 | 535 | 1,997 | ||
| D | 1,645 | 429 | 2,074 | ||
| D | 848 | 765 | 1,618 | ||
| D | 1,276 | 223 | 1,555 | ||
| D | 1,375 | 152 | 1,530 | ||
| D | 1,255 | 224 | 1,479 | ||
| D | 617 | 282 | 906 | ||
| D | 1,053 | 309 | 1,362 | ||
| D | 725 | 73 | 829 | ||
| D | 620 | 77 | 713 | ||
| D | 810 | 100 | 910 | ||
| D | 712 | 48 | 760 | ||
| D | 428 | 51 | 479 | ||
| D | 263 | 109 | 372 | ||
| D | 139 | 19 | 158 | ||
| D | 70 | 23 | 93 | ||
| D | 187 | 11 | 198 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
5.6%
English
4.0%
German
3.8%
Italian
0.7%
Irish
0.5%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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: 26.1 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
$42,211
Jim Hogg County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.
Jim Hogg County$42,211
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
Jim Hogg County ranks in the bottom 10% 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
31.4%
Nearly half of children live in poverty.
Children under 1852.0%
Working age (18–64)21.3%
Seniors (65+)33.3%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
46.3%
speak English only
Spanish53.1%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.6%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 7.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Jim Hogg County, anchored by the small city of Hebbronville, is one of the least-populous counties on the Texas–Mexico border and has returned Democratic presidential margins for decades, though that advantage narrowed noticeably between 2016 and 2024.
Jim Hogg County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of eighty-nine points in 1916. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved ten 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 34% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $42,211, and a population of 4,727. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Brooks County and Zavala County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Jim Hogg County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Jim Hogg County, Texas voted Democratic by 8.3 points (D+8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,585 votes cast, 856 went Democratic and 725 went Republican.
What is Jim Hogg County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places Jim Hogg 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 28 times, Republican 0 times, and other 0 times.
How many people live in Jim Hogg County, Texas?
Jim Hogg County, Texas has a population of 4,727 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Jim Hogg County, Texas?
Median household income in Jim Hogg County, Texas is $42,211 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Jim Hogg County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Jim Hogg County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 28 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.