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
GroupMitchell CountyTexasUnited States
German13.0%8.3%12.5%
English8.8%7.9%9.5%
Irish7.9%6.0%9.4%
American6.5%4.6%5.3%
French1.9%1.5%1.6%
Scottish1.7%1.3%1.3%
Welsh1.3%——
Polish1.0%0.8%2.2%
Mexican32.0%32.1%11.3%
Honduran0.7%0.8%0.3%
Spanish0.6%——
Guatemalan0.3%0.4%0.5%
African American†8.1%10.3%9.9%
Filipino0.3%0.5%0.9%
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
Mitchell County
Texas
United States
Median age
36.7
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
12.2%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
14.5%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Mitchell County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$60,550
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.8%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
11.5%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Mitchell County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
21.7%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
20.9%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Mitchell County
Texas
United States
Catholic
35.0%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
32.8%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
25.7%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.7%
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.
Mitchell County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 2,513 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Mitchell County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 1Precinct 1
96
593
4
693
13.9%
85.6%
R+71.7
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
107
573
6
686
15.6%
83.5%
R+67.9
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
61
544
5
610
10.0%
89.2%
R+79.2
Precinct -Precinct 2Precinct 2
88
434
2
524
16.8%
82.8%
R+66.0
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+68.3%
1908
+73.5%
1912
+78.2%
1916
+82.8%
1920
+71.2%
1924
+74.2%
1928
−19.1%
1932
+81.8%
1936
+82.6%
1940
+80.9%
1944
+77.6%
1948
+78.5%
1952
+17.7%
1956
+26.8%
1960
+27.6%
1964
+53.3%
1968
+23.3%
1972
−43.8%
1976
+24.0%
1980
−0.3%
1984
−20.1%
1988
+5.2%
1992
+7.3%
1996
+11.0%
2000
−33.8%
2004
−49.8%
2008
−50.6%
2012
−52.6%
2016
−64.9%
2020
−68.7%
2024
−71.3%
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
14.0%Harris352
85.3%Trump2,144
0.4%Oliver11 +1
R+71.3
R+2.6
R+69.8
2,513
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican85.3%2,144
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.0%352
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%11
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%6
R
15.4%Biden397
84.1%Trump2,170
0.4%Jorgensen11
R+68.7
R+3.8
R+73.2
2,580
R
16.1%Clinton354
81.1%Trump1,780
2.3%Johnson50
R+64.9
R+12.3
R+67.0
2,196
R
23.2%Obama538
75.8%Romney1,756
0.8%Gray18
R+52.6
R+2.0
R+56.4
2,316
R
24.1%Obama586
74.7%McCain1,815
1.2%
R+50.6
R+0.8
R+57.8
2,431
R
25.0%Kerry639
74.7%Bush1,912
0.3%
R+49.8
R+15.9
R+47.3
2,558
R
32.5%Gore837
66.4%Bush1,708
0.8%Nader20
R+33.8
R+44.8
R+34.4
2,574
D
50.4%Clinton1,213
39.5%Dole949
9.6%Perot232
D+11.0
D+3.7
D+2.5
2,405
D
43.7%Clinton1,353
36.5%Bush1,128
19.5%Perot604
D+7.3
D+2.0
D+1.7
3,093
D
52.5%Dukakis1,773
47.3%Bush1,596
0.2%
D+5.2
D+25.4
D+13.0
3,376
R
39.7%Mondale1,332
59.8%Reagan2,007
0.5%
R+20.1
R+19.8
R+1.9
3,357
R
49.4%Carter1,446
49.7%Reagan1,455
0.9%
R+0.3
R+24.3
D+9.4
2,926
D
61.7%Carter1,730
37.7%Ford1,058
0.6%
D+24.0
D+67.7
D+21.9
2,804
R
28.0%McGovern699
71.8%Nixon1,790
0.1%
R+43.8
R+67.1
R+20.6
2,492
D
53.3%Humphrey1,589
30.0%Nixon893
16.7%
D+23.3
R+29.9
D+24.0
2,981
D
76.6%Johnson2,420
23.3%Goldwater737
0.1%
D+53.3
D+25.7
D+30.7
3,159
D
63.6%Kennedy2,131
36.1%Nixon1,208
0.3%
D+27.6
D+0.7
D+27.4
3,350
D
63.4%Stevenson1,891
36.6%Eisenhower1,091
0.0%
D+26.8
D+9.1
D+42.2
2,982
D
58.7%Stevenson2,031
41.0%Eisenhower1,417
0.3%
D+17.7
R+60.8
D+28.5
3,460
D
87.8%Truman2,181
9.3%Dewey230
2.9%
D+78.5
D+0.9
D+74.1
2,484
D
86.1%Roosevelt2,215
8.5%Dewey218
5.4%
D+77.6
R+3.3
D+70.1
2,573
D
90.4%Roosevelt2,401
9.4%Willkie251
0.2%
D+80.9
R+1.7
D+71.0
2,657
D
91.2%Roosevelt2,035
8.6%Landon192
0.2%
D+82.6
D+0.8
D+58.3
2,231
D
90.9%Roosevelt1,490
9.0%Hoover148
0.1%
D+81.8
D+101.0
D+64.0
1,640
R
40.4%Smith746
59.6%Hoover1,099
0.0%
R+19.1
R+93.3
R+1.7
1,845
D
85.9%Davis1,242
11.7%Coolidge169
2.4%La Follette35
D+74.2
D+3.0
D+99.4
1,446
D
81.6%Cox694
10.5%Harding89
7.9%
D+71.2
R+11.6
D+97.4
850
D
87.0%Wilson803
4.2%Hughes39
8.8%
D+82.8
D+4.5
D+79.6
923
D
80.9%Wilson573
2.7%Taft19
16.4%
D+78.2
D+4.8
D+58.7
708
D
83.0%Bryan635
9.5%Taft73
7.5%
D+73.5
D+5.1
D+83.0
765
D
80.8%Parker467
12.5%Roosevelt72
6.7%
D+68.3
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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
15.1%374
83.3%2,059
2,473
2020
R
14.1%359
83.8%2,129
2,540
2018
R
16.9%323
82.9%1,585
1,913
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Mitchell County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
4,495
2018
4,569
2020
4,524
2022
4,469
2024
4,526
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+12 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −889 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $52,746 in average income, against $77,679 for residents who stayed — 32% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+73.6 on average — 2.3 points more Republican-leaning than Mitchell County, TX itself (R+71.3).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Scurry County, TX23R+73.6
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Scurry County, TX26
Howard County, TX22
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 Mitchell County, TX in Mitchell County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5
2012
−81
2013
−339
2014
+72
2015
−212
2016
−368
2017
−272
2018
+289
2019
−14
2021
+64
2022
−69
2023
+151
2024
−127
2025
+12
Mitchell County, anchored by the small city of Colorado City, delivered a 71-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — a spread typical of sparsely populated West Texas oil-patch counties where GOP alignment has deepened steadily over two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.8 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 71.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 71.3 points.
A population of 9,018, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,550 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Live Oak County and Jackson 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, Mitchell County, Texas voted Republican by 71.3 points (R+71.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,513 votes cast, 352 went Democratic and 2,144 went Republican.
When did Mitchell County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mitchell County, Texas voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Mitchell County, Texas?
Mitchell County, Texas has a population of 9,018 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mitchell County, Texas?
Median household income in Mitchell County, Texas is $60,550 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Mitchell County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mitchell County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
