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
GroupLa Salle CountyTexasUnited States
Mexican66.0%32.1%11.3%
Spaniard1.8%0.3%—
Puerto Rican0.4%0.8%1.8%
German6.6%8.3%12.5%
American5.0%4.6%5.3%
English4.3%7.9%9.5%
Irish4.2%6.0%9.4%
Welsh1.5%——
Danish1.0%——
Polish0.7%0.8%2.2%
Czech0.6%——
African American†4.7%10.3%9.9%
African0.4%0.6%0.5%
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
La Salle County
Texas
United States
Median age
35.5
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
15.5%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.1%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
La Salle County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$57,716
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
21.4%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
11.8%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
La Salle County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
47.6%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
47.5%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
La Salle County
Texas
United States
Catholic
75.5%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
8.4%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
14.1%
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.
La Salle County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
6 precincts · 2,360 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
La Salle County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 1Precinct 1
229
435
4
668
34.3%
65.1%
R+30.8
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
278
386
4
668
41.6%
57.8%
R+16.2
Precinct -Precinct 5Precinct 5
185
264
0
449
41.2%
58.8%
R+17.6
Precinct -Precinct 2Precinct 2
117
161
0
278
42.1%
57.9%
R+15.8
Precinct -Precinct 6Precinct 6
121
125
1
247
49.0%
50.6%
R+1.6
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
3
46
1
50
6.0%
92.0%
R+86.0
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1908–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1908
+18.6%
1912
+77.2%
1916
+78.1%
1920
+63.4%
1924
+74.1%
1928
+18.9%
1932
+79.3%
1936
+81.0%
1940
+72.6%
1944
+65.7%
1948
+64.0%
1952
+18.2%
1956
+12.2%
1960
+37.5%
1964
+63.1%
1968
+29.7%
1972
−30.7%
1976
+31.1%
1980
+29.8%
1984
+19.8%
1988
+40.7%
1992
+40.4%
1996
+43.6%
2000
+26.6%
2004
+10.8%
2008
+19.0%
2012
+18.0%
2016
+12.5%
2020
−11.8%
2024
−20.5%
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
39.5%Harris933
60.0%Trump1,417
0.3%Stein6 +1
R+20.5
R+8.7
R+19.0
2,360
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican60.0%1,417
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic39.5%933
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%6
Chase OliverLibertarian0.2%4
R
43.7%Biden1,052
55.5%Trump1,335
0.5%Jorgensen12
R+11.8
R+24.2
R+16.2
2,406
D
54.8%Clinton1,129
42.4%Trump872
2.1%Johnson43
D+12.5
R+5.5
D+10.4
2,059
D
58.6%Obama965
40.6%Romney669
0.5%Gray9
D+18.0
R+1.0
D+14.1
1,646
D
59.2%Obama1,052
40.2%McCain714
0.6%
D+19.0
D+8.3
D+11.8
1,776
D
55.1%Kerry1,229
44.3%Bush989
0.5%
D+10.8
R+15.8
D+13.2
2,230
D
62.9%Gore1,266
36.3%Bush731
0.2%Nader5
D+26.6
R+17.0
D+26.0
2,014
D
69.7%Clinton1,522
26.1%Dole570
3.9%Perot85
D+43.6
D+3.2
D+35.1
2,184
D
65.6%Clinton1,522
25.3%Bush586
9.1%Perot211
D+40.4
R+0.4
D+34.8
2,319
D
70.2%Dukakis1,651
29.5%Bush693
0.3%
D+40.7
D+21.0
D+48.5
2,352
D
59.8%Mondale1,504
40.1%Reagan1,007
0.1%
D+19.8
R+10.0
D+38.0
2,514
D
64.1%Carter1,442
34.4%Reagan773
1.5%
D+29.8
R+1.4
D+39.5
2,248
D
65.3%Carter1,294
34.1%Ford677
0.6%
D+31.1
D+61.8
D+29.0
1,983
R
34.4%McGovern567
65.1%Nixon1,073
0.5%
R+30.7
R+60.4
R+7.6
1,648
D
59.7%Humphrey645
30.0%Nixon324
10.4%
D+29.7
R+33.4
D+30.4
1,081
D
81.5%Johnson988
18.4%Goldwater223
0.1%
D+63.1
D+25.6
D+40.5
1,212
D
68.6%Kennedy718
31.2%Nixon326
0.2%
D+37.5
D+25.3
D+37.3
1,046
D
56.1%Stevenson574
43.8%Eisenhower449
0.1%
D+12.2
R+6.0
D+27.6
1,024
D
59.0%Stevenson816
40.9%Eisenhower565
0.1%
D+18.2
R+45.8
D+28.9
1,382
D
78.8%Truman719
14.8%Dewey135
6.5%
D+64.0
R+1.7
D+59.5
913
D
80.5%Roosevelt692
14.8%Dewey127
4.8%
D+65.7
R+6.9
D+58.2
860
D
86.3%Roosevelt706
13.7%Willkie112
0.0%
D+72.6
R+8.4
D+62.7
818
D
90.5%Roosevelt704
9.5%Landon74
0.0%
D+81.0
D+1.6
D+56.7
778
D
89.5%Roosevelt810
10.2%Hoover92
0.3%
D+79.3
D+60.5
D+61.5
905
D
59.4%Smith479
40.6%Hoover327
0.0%
D+18.9
R+55.2
D+36.3
806
D
86.5%Davis1,596
12.4%Coolidge228
0.5%La Follette10
D+74.1
D+10.7
D+99.3
1,846
D
80.3%Cox252
16.9%Harding53
2.9%
D+63.4
R+14.7
D+89.6
314
D
88.5%Wilson340
10.4%Hughes40
1.0%
D+78.1
D+0.9
D+75.0
384
D
82.3%Wilson339
5.1%Taft21
12.6%
D+77.2
D+58.5
D+57.6
412
D
58.8%Bryan328
40.1%Taft224
1.1%
D+18.6
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D+28.2
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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
45.3%956
51.5%1,088
2,112
2020
R
46.8%1,005
50.4%1,082
2,146
2018
D
54.6%813
45.2%673
1,489
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in La Salle County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
4,006
2018
4,268
2020
4,426
2022
4,311
2024
4,210
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−40 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −205 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $40,483 in average income, against $93,540 for residents who stayed — 57% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Bexar County, TX33
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 La Salle County, TX in La Salle County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+46
2012
+86
2013
+217
2014
−34
2015
+76
2016
−98
2017
−108
2018
−110
2019
−45
2021
+13
2022
−177
2023
−27
2024
−4
2025
−40
La Salle County sits atop a major shale formation that drove a dramatic population and revenue surge in the 2010s, leaving a small, majority-Hispanic community navigating the boom-and-bust rhythms of the energy sector.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 30.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 8.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.5 points.
A population of 6,839, a 20% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,716 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jim Wells County and Jim Hogg 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, La Salle County, Texas voted Republican by 20.5 points (R+20.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,360 votes cast, 933 went Democratic and 1,417 went Republican.
When did La Salle County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which La Salle County, Texas voted Democratic was 2016.
How many people live in La Salle County, Texas?
La Salle County, Texas has a population of 6,839 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in La Salle County, Texas?
Median household income in La Salle County, Texas is $57,716 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of La Salle County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in La Salle County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 27 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
