La Salle County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted R+21%. Democratic peak: D+81 in 1936.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+21MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 6,8392024 5-year
- Median household income
- $57,7162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 71.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Jim Wells County, TX · similarity 1.00
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of La Salle CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for La Salle County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
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 | +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
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 933 | 1,417 | 2,360 | ||
| R | 1,052 | 1,335 | 2,406 | ||
| D | 1,129 | 872 | 2,059 | ||
| D | 965 | 669 | 1,646 | ||
| D | 1,052 | 714 | 1,776 | ||
| D | 1,229 | 989 | 2,230 | ||
| D | 1,266 | 731 | 2,014 | ||
| D | 1,522 | 570 | 2,184 | ||
| D | 1,522 | 586 | 2,319 | ||
| D | 1,651 | 693 | 2,352 | ||
| D | 1,504 | 1,007 | 2,514 | ||
| D | 1,442 | 773 | 2,248 | ||
| D | 1,294 | 677 | 1,983 | ||
| R | 567 | 1,073 | 1,648 | ||
| D | 645 | 324 | 1,081 | ||
| D | 988 | 223 | 1,212 | ||
| D | 718 | 326 | 1,046 | ||
| D | 574 | 449 | 1,024 | ||
| D | 816 | 565 | 1,382 | ||
| D | 719 | 135 | 913 | ||
| D | 692 | 127 | 860 | ||
| D | 706 | 112 | 818 | ||
| D | 704 | 74 | 778 | ||
| D | 810 | 92 | 905 | ||
| D | 479 | 327 | 806 | ||
| D | 1,596 | 228 | 1,846 | ||
| D | 252 | 53 | 314 | ||
| D | 340 | 40 | 384 | ||
| D | 339 | 21 | 412 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
6.6%
American
5.0%
English
4.3%
Irish
4.2%
Polish
0.7%
African American
4.6%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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: 35.5 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
$57,716
La Salle County ranks near the middle of US counties.
La Salle County$57,716
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
La Salle County ranks near the middle 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
21.4%
Children face higher poverty than working-age adults.
Children under 1825.0%
Working age (18–64)22.1%
Seniors (65+)9.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
52.4%
speak English only
Spanish47.5%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 14.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
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.
La Salle County has leaned Republican in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of eighty-one points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved nine 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 33% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $57,716, and a population of 6,839. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jim Wells County and Frio County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did La Salle County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, La Salle County, Texas voted Republican by 20.5 points (R+21), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,360 votes cast, 933 went Democratic and 1,417 went Republican.
What is La Salle County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places La Salle 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 26 times, Republican 3 times, and other 0 times.
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, 26 went Democratic and 3 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.