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
GroupSomervell CountyTexasUnited States
English14.0%7.9%9.5%
American12.4%4.6%5.3%
Irish11.8%6.0%9.4%
German11.7%8.3%12.5%
Scottish3.9%1.3%1.3%
French1.9%1.5%1.6%
Italian1.3%1.9%4.8%
Polish0.8%0.8%2.2%
Mexican16.6%32.1%11.3%
Salvadoran0.4%1.2%0.7%
Puerto Rican0.2%0.8%1.8%
African American†1.0%10.3%9.9%
African0.3%0.6%0.5%
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
Somervell County
Texas
United States
Median age
44.5
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
7.0%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
20.0%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Somervell County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$79,825
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.5%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
29.3%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Somervell County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
16.0%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
14.3%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Somervell County
Texas
United States
Catholic
8.3%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
40.5%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
43.6%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.6%
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.
Somervell County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 5,309 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Somervell County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
206
1,337
17
1,560
13.2%
85.7%
R+72.5
Precinct -Precinct 2Precinct 2
213
1,115
16
1,344
15.8%
83.0%
R+67.1
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
177
1,048
13
1,238
14.3%
84.7%
R+70.4
Precinct -Precinct 1Precinct 1
155
993
19
1,167
13.3%
85.1%
R+71.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+64.9%
1908
+65.4%
1912
+60.1%
1916
+67.5%
1920
+28.3%
1924
+77.0%
1928
−27.9%
1932
+83.0%
1936
+68.8%
1940
+58.8%
1944
+51.4%
1948
+60.9%
1952
−4.6%
1956
−20.2%
1960
−12.0%
1964
+50.5%
1968
+7.9%
1972
−42.5%
1976
+51.9%
1980
+12.0%
1984
−38.2%
1988
−14.0%
1992
−3.5%
1996
−4.5%
2000
−46.9%
2004
−52.7%
2008
−53.2%
2012
−63.8%
2016
−68.4%
2020
−67.3%
2024
−70.7%
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
14.2%Harris751
84.9%Trump4,493
0.5%Oliver28 +2
R+70.7
R+3.4
R+69.2
5,294
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican84.9%4,493
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.2%751
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%28
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%13
OtherAll other candidates0.2%9
R
15.5%Biden768
82.8%Trump4,105
1.1%Jorgensen56
R+67.3
D+1.1
R+71.8
4,957
R
13.9%Clinton541
82.3%Trump3,206
2.7%Johnson107
R+68.4
R+4.6
R+70.5
3,897
R
17.3%Obama613
81.1%Romney2,871
0.9%Gray33
R+63.8
R+10.7
R+67.7
3,538
R
22.6%Obama799
75.8%McCain2,677
1.6%
R+53.2
R+0.5
R+60.4
3,533
R
23.4%Kerry831
76.1%Bush2,701
0.5%
R+52.7
R+5.8
R+50.2
3,551
R
25.8%Gore752
72.7%Bush2,120
1.3%Nader37
R+46.9
R+42.4
R+47.4
2,918
R
41.8%Clinton993
46.2%Dole1,099
11.5%Perot273
R+4.5
R+1.0
R+13.0
2,377
O
30.5%Clinton782
34.0%Bush872
35.2%Perot903
Perot +1.2
D+10.5
R+9.1
2,568
R
42.8%Dukakis983
56.8%Bush1,304
0.4%
R+14.0
D+24.2
R+6.3
2,296
R
30.8%Mondale635
69.0%Reagan1,422
0.2%
R+38.2
R+50.2
R+20.0
2,061
D
54.8%Carter1,015
42.8%Reagan792
2.4%
D+12.0
R+39.9
D+21.8
1,852
D
75.8%Carter1,054
23.9%Ford332
0.4%
D+51.9
D+94.4
D+49.8
1,391
R
28.8%McGovern284
71.2%Nixon703
0.0%
R+42.5
R+50.3
R+19.3
987
D
42.6%Humphrey384
34.7%Nixon313
22.6%
D+7.9
R+42.6
D+8.6
901
D
75.1%Johnson641
24.6%Goldwater210
0.4%
D+50.5
D+62.5
D+27.9
854
R
43.1%Kennedy345
55.1%Nixon441
1.8%
R+12.0
D+8.2
R+12.2
800
R
39.6%Stevenson309
59.8%Eisenhower467
0.6%
R+20.2
R+15.6
R+4.8
781
R
47.2%Stevenson450
51.8%Eisenhower494
0.9%
R+4.6
R+65.5
D+6.1
953
D
76.5%Truman446
15.6%Dewey91
7.9%
D+60.9
D+9.5
D+56.4
583
D
65.4%Roosevelt406
14.0%Dewey87
20.6%
D+51.4
R+7.4
D+43.9
621
D
79.4%Roosevelt532
20.6%Willkie138
0.0%
D+58.8
R+10.0
D+48.9
670
D
83.9%Roosevelt317
15.1%Landon57
1.1%
D+68.8
R+14.2
D+44.5
378
D
89.9%Roosevelt561
6.9%Hoover43
3.2%
D+83.0
D+110.9
D+65.2
624
R
36.1%Smith136
63.9%Hoover241
0.0%
R+27.9
R+104.8
R+10.4
377
D
85.9%Davis403
9.0%Coolidge42
5.1%La Follette24
D+77.0
D+48.6
D+102.2
469
D
52.9%Cox198
24.6%Harding92
22.5%
D+28.3
R+39.2
D+54.5
374
D
72.8%Wilson278
5.2%Hughes20
22.0%
D+67.5
D+7.4
D+64.4
382
D
63.3%Wilson241
3.1%Taft12
33.6%
D+60.1
R+5.3
D+40.6
381
D
77.5%Bryan251
12.0%Taft39
10.5%
D+65.4
D+0.5
D+75.0
324
D
72.7%Parker365
7.8%Roosevelt39
19.5%
D+64.9
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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
16.3%859
81.5%4,298
5,276
2020
R
14.5%712
83.4%4,103
4,920
2018
R
17.2%633
82.2%3,032
3,690
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Somervell County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
5,902
2018
5,987
2020
6,712
2022
6,995
2024
7,420
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+200 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,767 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $67,487 in average income, against $100,620 for residents who stayed — 33% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+49.3 on average — 21 points more Democratic-leaning than Somervell County, TX itself (R+70.7).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Hood County, TX75R+65.9
Tarrant County, TX39R+5.1
Johnson County, TX30R+51.4
Erath County, TX22R+68.0
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Hood County, TX48
Johnson County, TX36
Tarrant County, TX32
Erath 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 Somervell County, TX in Somervell County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−83
2012
+107
2013
+12
2014
+6
2015
+65
2016
+60
2017
+178
2018
+184
2019
+120
2021
+320
2022
+314
2023
+91
2024
+193
2025
+200
Somervell County, anchored by Glen Rose southwest of Fort Worth, delivers some of the most lopsided presidential results in Texas — its roughly 6,800 residents have backed the Republican nominee by 70-point margins in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 70.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.7 points.
A population of 9,691, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,825 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Callahan County and Shackelford 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, Somervell County, Texas voted Republican by 70.7 points (R+70.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 5,294 votes cast, 751 went Democratic and 4,493 went Republican.
When did Somervell County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Somervell County, Texas voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Somervell County, Texas?
Somervell County, Texas has a population of 9,691 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Somervell County, Texas?
Median household income in Somervell County, Texas is $79,825 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Somervell County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Somervell County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
