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
GroupSherman CountyTexasUnited States
German12.5%8.3%12.5%
American9.2%4.6%5.3%
Irish7.8%6.0%9.4%
English5.7%7.9%9.5%
Dutch1.8%——
Polish1.0%0.8%2.2%
Hungarian0.7%——
Scotch-Irish0.7%——
Mexican44.1%32.1%11.3%
Spaniard1.4%0.3%—
Venezuelan1.1%——
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
Sherman County
Texas
United States
Median age
39.7
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
15.9%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.4%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Sherman County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$61,250
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.4%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
30.2%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Sherman County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
38.9%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
38.6%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Sherman County
Texas
United States
Catholic
9.0%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
49.7%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
29.0%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
12.3%
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.
Sherman County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
7 precincts · 898 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Sherman County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 401Precinct 401
24
267
5
296
8.1%
90.2%
R+82.1
Precinct -Precinct 102Precinct 102
17
134
2
153
11.1%
87.6%
R+76.5
Precinct -Precinct 302Precinct 302
7
117
1
125
5.6%
93.6%
R+88.0
Precinct -Precinct 201Precinct 201
13
93
0
106
12.3%
87.7%
R+75.5
Precinct -Precinct 301Precinct 301
3
97
3
103
2.9%
94.2%
R+91.3
Precinct -Precinct 202Precinct 202
4
69
0
73
5.5%
94.5%
R+89.0
Precinct -Precinct 101Precinct 101
2
40
0
42
4.8%
95.2%
R+90.5
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1908–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1908
+57.6%
1912
+48.7%
1916
+55.9%
1920
+37.1%
1924
+33.7%
1928
−28.8%
1932
+69.6%
1936
+88.7%
1940
+72.8%
1944
+61.1%
1948
+64.4%
1952
−35.6%
1956
−11.3%
1960
−38.4%
1964
−15.3%
1968
−30.5%
1972
−70.0%
1976
+2.8%
1980
−57.8%
1984
−67.1%
1988
−53.7%
1992
−43.1%
1996
−49.5%
2000
−73.4%
2004
−76.7%
2008
−74.2%
2012
−75.8%
2016
−76.0%
2020
−80.1%
2024
−88.1%
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
5.5%Harris48
93.6%Trump817
0.6%Oliver5 +2
R+88.1
R+7.9
R+86.6
873
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican93.6%817
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic5.5%48
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%5
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%2
OtherAll other candidates0.1%1
R
9.2%Biden91
89.3%Trump886
0.9%Jorgensen9
R+80.1
R+4.1
R+84.6
992
R
10.3%Clinton96
86.3%Trump807
2.9%Johnson27
R+76.0
R+0.2
R+78.1
935
R
11.7%Obama121
87.5%Romney908
0.9%Gray9
R+75.8
R+1.6
R+79.7
1,038
R
12.5%Obama127
86.7%McCain884
0.9%
R+74.2
D+2.5
R+81.5
1,020
R
11.6%Kerry124
88.4%Bush942
0.0%
R+76.7
R+3.3
R+74.3
1,066
R
12.4%Gore144
85.8%Bush998
0.9%Nader11
R+73.4
R+23.9
R+73.9
1,163
R
21.3%Clinton243
70.8%Dole809
7.8%Perot89
R+49.5
R+6.4
R+58.0
1,143
R
19.1%Clinton261
62.2%Bush851
18.7%Perot256
R+43.1
D+10.6
R+48.7
1,369
R
22.7%Dukakis340
76.4%Bush1,145
0.9%
R+53.7
D+13.4
R+46.0
1,499
R
16.1%Mondale246
83.3%Reagan1,269
0.6%
R+67.1
R+9.3
R+48.9
1,524
R
19.6%Carter286
77.5%Reagan1,128
2.9%
R+57.8
R+60.6
R+48.1
1,456
D
50.7%Carter718
48.0%Ford679
1.3%
D+2.8
D+72.8
D+0.7
1,416
R
14.3%McGovern169
84.3%Nixon996
1.4%
R+70.0
R+39.5
R+46.9
1,181
R
21.3%Humphrey297
51.8%Nixon723
26.9%
R+30.5
R+15.2
R+29.8
1,396
R
42.3%Johnson462
57.6%Goldwater629
0.1%
R+15.3
D+23.1
R+37.9
1,092
R
30.7%Kennedy305
69.1%Nixon686
0.2%
R+38.4
R+27.1
R+38.5
993
R
44.1%Stevenson383
55.4%Eisenhower481
0.6%
R+11.3
D+24.4
D+4.1
869
R
32.1%Stevenson317
67.7%Eisenhower669
0.2%
R+35.6
R+100.0
R+24.9
988
D
80.9%Truman479
16.6%Dewey98
2.5%
D+64.4
D+3.2
D+59.9
592
D
77.7%Roosevelt454
16.6%Dewey97
5.7%
D+61.1
R+11.6
D+53.6
584
D
86.1%Roosevelt528
13.4%Willkie82
0.5%
D+72.8
R+15.9
D+62.8
613
D
94.4%Roosevelt568
5.6%Landon34
0.0%
D+88.7
D+19.1
D+64.4
602
D
84.6%Roosevelt515
14.9%Hoover91
0.5%
D+69.6
D+98.5
D+51.8
609
R
35.6%Smith137
64.4%Hoover248
0.0%
R+28.8
R+62.5
R+11.4
385
D
62.7%Davis188
29.0%Coolidge87
8.3%La Follette25
D+33.7
R+3.4
D+58.8
300
D
67.7%Cox170
30.7%Harding77
1.6%
D+37.1
R+18.9
D+63.2
251
D
75.2%Wilson152
19.3%Hughes39
5.4%
D+55.9
D+7.3
D+52.8
202
D
63.2%Wilson96
14.5%Taft22
22.4%
D+48.7
R+8.9
D+29.1
152
D
75.2%Bryan158
17.6%Taft37
7.1%
D+57.6
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D+67.2
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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
9.2%82
89.2%791
887
2020
R
8.9%88
90.2%888
985
2018
R
10.6%87
84.2%692
822
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Sherman County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
1,518
2020
1,520
2022
1,380
2024
1,448
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−47 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −366 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $51,419 in average income, against $77,648 for residents who stayed — 34% 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 Sherman County, TX in Sherman County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−25
2012
+2
2013
+15
2014
−7
2015
−25
2016
−8
2017
−41
2018
+23
2019
−111
2021
−17
2022
−21
2023
−119
2024
+15
2025
−47
Sherman County, anchored by the small city of Stratford, is a sparsely populated Texas Panhandle ranching community that recorded an R+88.1 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided counties in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 88.1 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 7.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 88.1 points.
A population of 2,295, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,250 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hansford County and Stevens 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, Sherman County, Texas voted Republican by 88.1 points (R+88.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 873 votes cast, 48 went Democratic and 817 went Republican.
When did Sherman County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Sherman County, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Sherman County, Texas?
Sherman County, Texas has a population of 2,295 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Sherman County, Texas?
Median household income in Sherman County, Texas is $61,250 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Sherman County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Sherman County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
