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
GroupShackelford CountyTexasUnited States
Irish16.9%6.0%9.4%
English13.5%7.9%9.5%
German12.9%8.3%12.5%
American9.2%4.6%5.3%
Scottish1.9%1.3%1.3%
Italian1.1%1.9%4.8%
Dutch1.0%——
Scotch-Irish0.7%——
Mexican12.2%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
Shackelford County
Texas
United States
Median age
42.3
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
7.8%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
20.0%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Shackelford County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$73,047
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
9.5%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
34.1%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Shackelford County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
6.9%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
5.8%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Shackelford County
Texas
United States
Catholic
4.4%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
44.7%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
41.5%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
9.4%
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.
Shackelford County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
8 precincts · 1,728 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Shackelford County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 202Precinct 202
31
450
2
483
6.4%
93.2%
R+86.7
Precinct -Precinct 101BPrecinct 101B
22
275
0
297
7.4%
92.6%
R+85.2
Precinct -Precinct 406APrecinct 406A
25
180
5
210
11.9%
85.7%
R+73.8
Precinct -Precinct 303Precinct 303
18
187
3
208
8.7%
89.9%
R+81.3
Precinct -Precinct 405Precinct 405
21
159
2
182
11.5%
87.4%
R+75.8
Precinct -Precinct 307Precinct 307
15
164
1
180
8.3%
91.1%
R+82.8
Precinct -Precinct 101APrecinct 101A
12
125
4
141
8.5%
88.7%
R+80.1
Precinct -Precinct 404Precinct 404
2
25
0
27
7.4%
92.6%
R+85.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+70.6%
1908
+75.6%
1912
+67.1%
1916
+70.0%
1920
+42.9%
1924
+0.1%
1928
−2.3%
1932
+83.4%
1936
+76.7%
1940
+73.7%
1944
+65.1%
1948
+59.4%
1952
−15.3%
1956
−20.9%
1960
+2.1%
1964
+31.4%
1968
+7.7%
1972
−46.5%
1976
+1.1%
1980
−22.3%
1984
−47.8%
1988
−11.8%
1992
−9.1%
1996
−19.7%
2000
−59.5%
2004
−69.6%
2008
−71.5%
2012
−79.8%
2016
−84.8%
2020
−83.2%
2024
−82.1%
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
8.4%Harris146
90.6%Trump1,565
0.7%Oliver12 +2
R+82.1
D+1.1
R+80.6
1,728
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican90.6%1,565
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic8.4%146
Chase OliverLibertarian0.7%12
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%4
OtherAll other candidates0.1%1
R
8.0%Biden130
91.2%Trump1,484
0.6%Jorgensen10
R+83.2
D+1.6
R+87.6
1,628
R
6.8%Clinton103
91.6%Trump1,378
1.4%Johnson21
R+84.8
R+5.0
R+86.9
1,504
R
9.6%Obama131
89.4%Romney1,218
0.9%Gray12
R+79.8
R+8.3
R+83.6
1,363
R
13.8%Obama208
85.3%McCain1,284
0.9%
R+71.5
R+1.9
R+78.8
1,505
R
15.0%Kerry229
84.6%Bush1,292
0.4%
R+69.6
R+10.1
R+67.2
1,527
R
19.6%Gore264
79.1%Bush1,066
0.7%Nader9
R+59.5
R+39.8
R+60.1
1,347
R
34.1%Clinton502
53.8%Dole792
11.5%Perot169
R+19.7
R+10.6
R+28.2
1,471
R
31.6%Clinton484
40.6%Bush623
27.5%Perot422
R+9.1
D+2.8
R+14.6
1,533
R
43.8%Dukakis681
55.7%Bush865
0.5%
R+11.8
D+35.9
R+4.1
1,554
R
25.9%Mondale415
73.6%Reagan1,181
0.5%
R+47.8
R+25.4
R+29.5
1,604
R
38.3%Carter606
60.7%Reagan959
1.0%
R+22.3
R+23.4
R+12.6
1,581
D
50.3%Carter764
49.3%Ford748
0.4%
D+1.1
D+47.5
R+1.0
1,518
R
26.6%McGovern331
73.1%Nixon909
0.3%
R+46.5
R+54.2
R+23.3
1,244
D
44.7%Humphrey673
37.0%Nixon557
18.4%
D+7.7
R+23.7
D+8.4
1,507
D
65.6%Johnson934
34.2%Goldwater487
0.2%
D+31.4
D+29.3
D+8.8
1,424
D
51.0%Kennedy713
49.0%Nixon684
0.0%
D+2.1
D+22.9
D+1.9
1,397
R
39.4%Stevenson555
60.3%Eisenhower849
0.4%
R+20.9
R+5.6
R+5.5
1,409
R
42.2%Stevenson776
57.5%Eisenhower1,057
0.2%
R+15.3
R+74.7
R+4.5
1,837
D
77.8%Truman892
18.4%Dewey211
3.8%
D+59.4
R+5.7
D+54.9
1,146
D
75.2%Roosevelt1,007
10.1%Dewey135
14.7%
D+65.1
R+8.6
D+57.6
1,339
D
86.8%Roosevelt1,521
13.1%Willkie229
0.2%
D+73.7
R+3.0
D+63.8
1,753
D
88.4%Roosevelt1,153
11.6%Landon152
0.0%
D+76.7
R+6.7
D+52.4
1,305
D
91.5%Roosevelt1,316
8.1%Hoover117
0.3%
D+83.4
D+85.7
D+65.6
1,438
R
48.8%Smith533
51.1%Hoover558
0.1%
R+2.3
R+2.4
D+15.2
1,092
D
50.1%Davis729
49.9%Coolidge727
0.0%
D+0.1
R+42.7
D+25.3
1,456
D
64.9%Cox342
22.0%Harding116
13.1%
D+42.9
R+27.1
D+69.1
527
D
80.9%Wilson378
10.9%Hughes51
8.1%
D+70.0
D+3.0
D+66.9
467
D
72.4%Wilson246
5.3%Taft18
22.4%
D+67.1
R+8.6
D+47.5
340
D
85.3%Bryan266
9.6%Taft30
5.1%
D+75.6
D+5.0
D+85.2
312
D
81.6%Parker164
10.9%Roosevelt22
7.5%
D+70.6
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D+90.3
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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
10.1%173
88.7%1,520
1,713
2020
R
7.2%115
91.8%1,475
1,607
2018
R
8.0%103
91.6%1,174
1,281
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Shackelford County, TX
Year
Total registered
2018
2,339
2020
2,320
2022
2,329
2024
2,439
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 +10 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $110,813 in average income, against $134,682 for residents who stayed — 18% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Taylor County, TX23
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 Shackelford County, TX in Shackelford County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−46
2012
+19
2013
−2
2014
−34
2015
+7
2016
−3
2017
−44
2018
−47
2019
+11
2021
+101
2022
+29
2023
+23
2024
−17
2025
+13
With roughly 3,300 residents spread across ranchland in the Rolling Plains, Shackelford delivered an R+82.1 margin in 2024 — among the widest in the state — reflecting the deep Republican lean typical of sparsely populated West Texas cattle country.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 84.8 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 82.1 points.
A population of 3,175, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,047 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Callahan County and Somervell 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, Shackelford County, Texas voted Republican by 82.1 points (R+82.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,728 votes cast, 146 went Democratic and 1,565 went Republican.
When did Shackelford County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Shackelford County, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Shackelford County, Texas?
Shackelford County, Texas has a population of 3,175 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Shackelford County, Texas?
Median household income in Shackelford County, Texas is $73,047 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Shackelford County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Shackelford County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
