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
GroupMason CountyTexasUnited States
German39.7%8.3%12.5%
Irish15.6%6.0%9.4%
English12.7%7.9%9.5%
French2.9%1.5%1.6%
Scottish2.6%1.3%1.3%
American1.8%4.6%5.3%
Welsh1.1%——
Scotch-Irish0.6%——
Mexican18.9%32.1%11.3%
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
Mason County
Texas
United States
Median age
52.7
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
5.9%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
35.2%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Mason County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$74,180
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.0%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
38.8%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Mason County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
19.1%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
16.8%
28.2%
13.6%
German or other West Germanic
2.1%
0.3%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Mason County
Texas
United States
Catholic
17.5%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
30.0%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
22.0%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
30.5%
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.
Mason County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 2,529 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Mason County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 302Precinct 302
101
561
6
668
15.1%
84.0%
R+68.9
Precinct -Precinct 405Precinct 405
109
548
4
661
16.5%
82.9%
R+66.4
Precinct -Precinct 101Precinct 101
126
512
6
644
19.6%
79.5%
R+59.9
Precinct -Precinct 210Precinct 210
98
455
3
556
17.6%
81.8%
R+64.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1908–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1908
+13.6%
1912
+36.2%
1916
+39.8%
1920
+5.2%
1924
+29.7%
1928
−53.5%
1932
+45.5%
1936
+37.3%
1940
+25.3%
1944
+26.9%
1948
+24.9%
1952
−27.6%
1956
−27.4%
1960
−18.2%
1964
+22.9%
1968
−15.1%
1972
−48.9%
1976
+0.5%
1980
−20.7%
1984
−34.3%
1988
−18.4%
1992
−12.0%
1996
−19.1%
2000
−51.9%
2004
−54.9%
2008
−47.1%
2012
−60.2%
2016
−63.3%
2020
−62.0%
2024
−65.0%
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
17.2%Harris434
82.2%Trump2,076
0.5%Oliver12 +2
R+65.0
R+3.0
R+63.5
2,527
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican82.2%2,076
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic17.2%434
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%12
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%4
OtherAll other candidates0.0%1
R
18.5%Biden457
80.5%Trump1,991
0.8%Jorgensen19
R+62.0
D+1.3
R+66.5
2,474
R
17.2%Clinton354
80.5%Trump1,656
1.8%Johnson37
R+63.3
R+3.1
R+65.4
2,057
R
19.3%Obama380
79.5%Romney1,565
1.1%Gray22
R+60.2
R+13.2
R+64.1
1,968
R
25.7%Obama546
72.8%McCain1,544
1.5%
R+47.1
D+7.9
R+54.3
2,121
R
22.1%Kerry459
77.0%Bush1,600
0.9%
R+54.9
R+3.0
R+52.5
2,077
R
23.2%Gore417
75.1%Bush1,352
1.0%Nader18
R+51.9
R+32.8
R+52.4
1,801
R
35.6%Clinton618
54.7%Dole949
8.7%Perot151
R+19.1
R+7.1
R+27.6
1,735
R
33.1%Clinton570
45.1%Bush776
21.1%Perot364
R+12.0
D+6.4
R+17.5
1,722
R
40.5%Dukakis671
58.9%Bush975
0.5%
R+18.4
D+15.9
R+10.6
1,655
R
32.7%Mondale570
67.0%Reagan1,168
0.3%
R+34.3
R+13.6
R+16.1
1,743
R
38.9%Carter630
59.6%Reagan966
1.5%
R+20.7
R+21.3
R+11.0
1,621
D
49.6%Carter814
49.1%Ford805
1.3%
D+0.5
D+49.4
R+1.5
1,640
R
24.8%McGovern369
73.7%Nixon1,096
1.5%
R+48.9
R+33.8
R+25.7
1,487
R
36.9%Humphrey560
52.0%Nixon789
11.1%
R+15.1
R+38.0
R+14.4
1,518
D
61.3%Johnson941
38.4%Goldwater590
0.3%
D+22.9
D+41.1
D+0.3
1,535
R
40.6%Kennedy575
58.8%Nixon833
0.6%
R+18.2
D+9.2
R+18.4
1,417
R
36.3%Stevenson504
63.7%Eisenhower885
0.1%
R+27.4
D+0.2
R+12.0
1,390
R
36.1%Stevenson606
63.7%Eisenhower1,069
0.2%
R+27.6
R+52.5
R+16.8
1,678
D
61.7%Truman836
36.7%Dewey498
1.6%
D+24.9
R+1.9
D+20.4
1,356
D
54.9%Roosevelt822
28.1%Dewey420
17.0%
D+26.9
D+1.5
D+19.4
1,496
D
62.6%Roosevelt1,065
37.3%Willkie634
0.2%
D+25.3
R+12.0
D+15.4
1,702
D
68.6%Roosevelt787
31.3%Landon359
0.1%
D+37.3
R+8.2
D+13.1
1,147
D
72.6%Roosevelt828
27.1%Hoover309
0.4%
D+45.5
D+99.0
D+27.7
1,141
R
23.2%Smith244
76.6%Hoover807
0.2%
R+53.5
R+83.1
R+36.0
1,053
D
53.5%Davis384
23.8%Coolidge171
22.7%La Follette163
D+29.7
D+24.5
D+54.8
718
D
45.2%Cox304
40.0%Harding269
14.9%
D+5.2
R+34.6
D+31.4
673
D
67.1%Wilson386
27.3%Hughes157
5.6%
D+39.8
D+3.7
D+36.7
575
D
53.3%Wilson472
17.2%Taft152
29.5%
D+36.2
D+22.5
D+16.6
885
D
54.6%Bryan429
41.0%Taft322
4.5%
D+13.6
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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
17.6%441
80.9%2,027
2,507
2020
R
18.0%443
80.7%1,980
2,455
2018
R
20.4%402
79.3%1,560
1,967
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Mason County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
2,962
2018
2,956
2020
3,168
2022
3,184
2024
3,278
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+13 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +395 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $122,233 in average income, against $96,617 for residents who stayed — 27% higher. (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 Mason County, TX in Mason County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+7
2012
+14
2013
+61
2014
−37
2015
−44
2016
+93
2017
+35
2018
+78
2019
+15
2021
−5
2022
+78
2023
−17
2024
+104
2025
+13
Mason County's sparse ranch land and aging rural population have produced Republican presidential margins exceeding 60 points in recent cycles, making it a textbook example of heavily Republican small-county consolidation in the Texas Hill Country.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 65.0 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.0 points.
A population of 3,955, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,180 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bandera County and Gillespie 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, Mason County, Texas voted Republican by 65.0 points (R+65.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,527 votes cast, 434 went Democratic and 2,076 went Republican.
When did Mason County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mason County, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Mason County, Texas?
Mason County, Texas has a population of 3,955 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mason County, Texas?
Median household income in Mason County, Texas is $74,180 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Mason County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mason County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
