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
GroupLipscomb CountyTexasUnited States
German13.8%8.3%12.5%
English7.7%7.9%9.5%
Irish6.0%6.0%9.4%
American4.5%4.6%5.3%
Scotch-Irish1.9%——
French1.2%1.5%1.6%
Scottish1.2%1.3%1.3%
Italian0.6%1.9%4.8%
Mexican30.1%32.1%11.3%
Guatemalan4.9%0.4%0.5%
Puerto Rican1.3%0.8%1.8%
Spaniard1.2%0.3%—
Salvadoran0.4%1.2%0.7%
Colombian0.4%0.3%0.4%
Guamanian0.8%——
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
Lipscomb County
Texas
United States
Median age
36.3
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
7.7%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.6%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Lipscomb County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$72,560
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.5%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
22.4%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Lipscomb County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
30.1%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
28.7%
28.2%
13.6%
Other languages
1.0%
0.7%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Lipscomb County
Texas
United States
Catholic
24.5%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
44.8%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
8.7%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
22.0%
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.
Lipscomb County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
7 precincts · 1,259 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Lipscomb County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 303Precinct 303
22
262
2
286
7.7%
91.6%
R+83.9
Precinct -Precinct 207Precinct 207
27
224
4
255
10.6%
87.8%
R+77.3
Precinct -Precinct 404Precinct 404
26
215
1
242
10.7%
88.8%
R+78.1
Precinct -Precinct 106Precinct 106
23
171
2
196
11.7%
87.2%
R+75.5
Precinct -Precinct 308Precinct 308
10
102
0
112
8.9%
91.1%
R+82.1
Precinct -Precinct 202Precinct 202
5
82
0
87
5.7%
94.3%
R+88.5
Precinct -Precinct 409Precinct 409
10
69
2
81
12.3%
85.2%
R+72.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+42.2%
1908
+44.0%
1912
+43.5%
1916
+44.7%
1920
−9.1%
1924
+2.6%
1928
−39.8%
1932
+40.6%
1936
+55.9%
1940
+26.7%
1944
+15.0%
1948
+29.9%
1952
−70.3%
1956
−39.9%
1960
−55.6%
1964
−12.9%
1968
−51.8%
1972
−76.4%
1976
−17.0%
1980
−58.0%
1984
−71.4%
1988
−49.0%
1992
−34.5%
1996
−38.1%
2000
−66.9%
2004
−72.0%
2008
−74.7%
2012
−79.2%
2016
−76.9%
2020
−79.4%
2024
−79.6%
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
9.8%Harris123
89.4%Trump1,125
0.9%Oliver11
R+79.6
R+0.2
R+78.1
1,259
All 3 candidates in 2024 · 1 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican89.4%1,125
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic9.8%123
Chase OliverLibertarian0.9%11
R
9.7%Biden131
89.1%Trump1,205
1.3%Jorgensen17
R+79.4
R+2.5
R+83.8
1,353
R
10.1%Clinton135
87.0%Trump1,159
1.9%Johnson25
R+76.9
D+2.3
R+79.0
1,332
R
10.2%Obama119
89.4%Romney1,044
0.3%Gray4
R+79.2
R+4.5
R+83.1
1,168
R
12.3%Obama155
87.0%McCain1,093
0.6%
R+74.7
R+2.7
R+82.0
1,256
R
13.8%Kerry184
85.8%Bush1,147
0.4%
R+72.0
R+5.1
R+69.6
1,337
R
15.9%Gore206
82.8%Bush1,072
0.7%Nader9
R+66.9
R+28.8
R+67.4
1,294
R
26.6%Clinton357
64.7%Dole869
8.6%Perot115
R+38.1
R+3.6
R+46.6
1,344
R
23.3%Clinton338
57.7%Bush839
18.6%Perot270
R+34.5
D+14.5
R+40.0
1,453
R
25.2%Dukakis377
74.1%Bush1,111
0.7%
R+49.0
D+22.5
R+41.2
1,499
R
14.1%Mondale241
85.5%Reagan1,461
0.4%
R+71.4
R+13.4
R+53.2
1,708
R
19.5%Carter338
77.5%Reagan1,343
3.0%
R+58.0
R+41.0
R+48.3
1,733
R
41.0%Carter644
58.1%Ford911
0.9%
R+17.0
D+59.4
R+19.1
1,569
R
11.1%McGovern156
87.6%Nixon1,226
1.3%
R+76.4
R+24.6
R+53.3
1,400
R
18.1%Humphrey279
69.8%Nixon1,079
12.1%
R+51.8
R+38.9
R+51.1
1,545
R
43.6%Johnson589
56.4%Goldwater763
0.0%
R+12.9
D+42.7
R+35.5
1,352
R
22.1%Kennedy267
77.7%Nixon939
0.2%
R+55.6
R+15.6
R+55.7
1,209
R
29.9%Stevenson345
69.8%Eisenhower806
0.3%
R+39.9
D+30.4
R+24.5
1,154
R
14.8%Stevenson204
85.1%Eisenhower1,174
0.1%
R+70.3
R+100.3
R+59.6
1,379
D
63.7%Truman668
33.7%Dewey354
2.6%
D+29.9
D+14.9
D+25.5
1,049
D
53.4%Roosevelt551
38.4%Dewey396
8.2%
D+15.0
R+11.7
D+7.5
1,032
D
62.9%Roosevelt774
36.1%Willkie445
1.0%
D+26.7
R+29.1
D+16.8
1,231
D
77.7%Roosevelt973
21.8%Landon273
0.6%
D+55.9
D+15.3
D+31.6
1,253
D
68.1%Roosevelt865
27.5%Hoover349
4.5%
D+40.6
D+80.4
D+22.8
1,271
R
29.6%Smith331
69.3%Hoover776
1.1%
R+39.8
R+42.4
R+22.3
1,119
D
45.3%Davis430
42.7%Coolidge405
12.0%La Follette114
D+2.6
D+11.8
D+27.8
949
R
42.6%Cox350
51.8%Harding425
5.6%
R+9.1
R+53.9
D+17.1
821
D
66.9%Wilson350
22.2%Hughes116
10.9%
D+44.7
D+1.2
D+41.6
523
D
53.5%Wilson251
10.0%Taft47
36.5%
D+43.5
R+0.5
D+24.0
469
D
68.1%Bryan169
24.2%Taft60
7.7%
D+44.0
D+1.8
D+53.5
248
D
69.9%Parker116
27.7%Roosevelt46
2.4%
D+42.2
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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
10.5%131
87.7%1,094
1,248
2020
R
8.8%117
89.2%1,181
1,324
2018
R
10.9%116
88.3%942
1,067
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Lipscomb County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
2,048
2018
1,991
2020
1,977
2022
1,901
2024
1,818
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+24 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −432 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $50,460 in average income, against $94,600 for residents who stayed — 47% 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 Lipscomb County, TX in Lipscomb County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5
2012
+102
2013
+22
2014
+39
2015
−20
2016
−93
2017
−160
2018
−41
2019
−119
2021
−116
2022
−61
2023
+44
2024
−58
2025
+24
Lipscomb County's sparse, ranching-dominated landscape anchors one of the most Republican-leaning electorates in the state, with fewer than 3,100 residents spread across 932 square miles of the northeastern Panhandle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 79.6 points in 2024. The 2024 margin was 79.6 points.
A population of 2,918, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,560 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Ochiltree County and Meade 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, Lipscomb County, Texas voted Republican by 79.6 points (R+79.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,259 votes cast, 123 went Democratic and 1,125 went Republican.
When did Lipscomb County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lipscomb County, Texas voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Lipscomb County, Texas?
Lipscomb County, Texas has a population of 2,918 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lipscomb County, Texas?
Median household income in Lipscomb County, Texas is $72,560 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Lipscomb County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Lipscomb County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
