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
GroupSterling CountyTexasUnited States
English19.8%7.9%9.5%
Irish18.3%6.0%9.4%
German8.7%8.3%12.5%
American6.0%4.6%5.3%
Norwegian0.7%——
Mexican34.3%32.1%11.3%
Spaniard0.6%0.3%—
Cuban0.4%0.5%0.7%
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
Sterling County
Texas
United States
Median age
32.1
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
8.3%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.7%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Sterling County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$64,954
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
4.3%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
24.5%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Sterling County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
29.6%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
29.6%
28.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Sterling County
Texas
United States
Catholic
11.2%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
37.5%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
27.5%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
23.3%
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.
Sterling County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
8 precincts · 629 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Sterling County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 3Precinct 3
9
171
2
182
4.9%
94.0%
R+89.0
Precinct -Precinct 1APrecinct 1A
8
137
0
145
5.5%
94.5%
R+89.0
Precinct -Precinct 4Precinct 4
9
118
1
128
7.0%
92.2%
R+85.2
Precinct -Precinct 2APrecinct 2A
10
92
0
102
9.8%
90.2%
R+80.4
Precinct -Precinct 1BPrecinct 1B
3
30
0
33
9.1%
90.9%
R+81.8
Precinct -Precinct 2EPrecinct 2E
2
18
0
20
10.0%
90.0%
R+80.0
Precinct -Precinct 2DPrecinct 2D
1
12
0
13
7.7%
92.3%
R+84.6
Precinct -Precinct 2CPrecinct 2C
1
5
0
6
16.7%
83.3%
R+66.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+66.3%
1908
+90.4%
1912
+89.4%
1916
+93.9%
1920
+72.6%
1924
+81.0%
1928
+15.6%
1932
+92.9%
1936
+93.0%
1940
+92.7%
1944
+87.2%
1948
+84.7%
1952
−27.4%
1956
−19.6%
1960
+2.9%
1964
+26.8%
1968
−5.1%
1972
−50.1%
1976
−7.3%
1980
−24.9%
1984
−63.1%
1988
−42.1%
1992
−30.8%
1996
−31.1%
2000
−58.9%
2004
−76.9%
2008
−68.3%
2012
−86.6%
2016
−75.7%
2020
−83.4%
2024
−85.9%
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
6.8%Harris43
92.7%Trump583
0.3%Stein2 +1
R+85.9
R+2.4
R+84.4
629
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican92.7%583
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic6.8%43
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%2
Chase OliverLibertarian0.2%1
R
8.0%Biden51
91.4%Trump584
0.6%
R+83.4
R+7.7
R+87.9
639
R
11.1%Clinton70
86.7%Trump549
1.4%Johnson9
R+75.7
D+11.0
R+77.8
633
R
6.3%Obama31
92.9%Romney459
0.6%Gray3
R+86.6
R+18.3
R+90.5
494
R
15.7%Obama97
84.0%McCain520
0.3%
R+68.3
D+8.6
R+75.6
619
R
11.5%Kerry71
88.5%Bush544
0.0%
R+76.9
R+18.0
R+74.5
615
R
20.0%Gore132
78.9%Bush520
0.5%Nader3
R+58.9
R+27.8
R+59.4
659
R
27.8%Clinton186
58.9%Dole394
12.9%Perot86
R+31.1
R+0.3
R+39.6
669
R
20.0%Clinton127
50.8%Bush322
28.7%Perot182
R+30.8
D+11.3
R+36.3
634
R
28.7%Dukakis188
70.7%Bush464
0.6%
R+42.1
D+21.0
R+34.3
656
R
18.2%Mondale129
81.3%Reagan577
0.6%
R+63.1
R+38.2
R+44.9
710
R
37.2%Carter218
62.1%Reagan364
0.7%
R+24.9
R+17.6
R+15.2
586
R
45.7%Carter174
53.0%Ford202
1.3%
R+7.3
D+42.8
R+9.4
381
R
24.5%McGovern94
74.7%Nixon286
0.8%
R+50.1
R+45.1
R+27.0
383
R
40.3%Humphrey151
45.3%Nixon170
14.4%
R+5.1
R+31.9
R+4.4
375
D
63.3%Johnson243
36.5%Goldwater140
0.3%
D+26.8
D+23.9
D+4.2
384
D
51.5%Kennedy193
48.5%Nixon182
0.0%
D+2.9
D+22.5
D+2.8
375
R
40.2%Stevenson150
59.8%Eisenhower223
0.0%
R+19.6
D+7.8
R+4.2
373
R
36.3%Stevenson158
63.7%Eisenhower277
0.0%
R+27.4
R+112.1
R+16.6
435
D
91.0%Truman244
6.3%Dewey17
2.6%
D+84.7
R+2.4
D+80.2
268
D
92.2%Roosevelt330
5.0%Dewey18
2.8%
D+87.2
R+5.6
D+79.7
358
D
96.4%Roosevelt425
3.6%Willkie16
0.0%
D+92.7
R+0.2
D+82.8
441
D
96.5%Roosevelt384
3.5%Landon14
0.0%
D+93.0
±0.0
D+68.7
398
D
96.5%Roosevelt354
3.5%Hoover13
0.0%
D+92.9
D+77.3
D+75.1
367
D
57.8%Smith167
42.2%Hoover122
0.0%
D+15.6
R+65.5
D+33.0
289
D
90.3%Davis243
9.3%Coolidge25
0.4%La Follette1
D+81.0
D+8.5
D+106.2
269
D
81.7%Cox152
9.1%Harding17
9.1%
D+72.6
R+21.3
D+98.8
186
D
96.7%Wilson205
2.8%Hughes6
0.5%
D+93.9
D+4.4
D+90.7
212
D
91.7%Wilson165
2.2%Taft4
6.1%
D+89.4
R+1.0
D+69.9
180
D
93.6%Bryan147
3.2%Taft5
3.2%
D+90.4
D+24.2
D+100.0
157
D
75.0%Parker129
8.7%Roosevelt15
16.3%
D+66.3
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D+85.9
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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
9.0%56
88.6%553
624
2020
R
7.6%47
91.3%567
621
2018
R
9.1%44
90.9%442
486
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Sterling County, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
935
2018
865
2020
939
2022
775
2024
892
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−25 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +70 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $89,630 in average income, against $117,981 for residents who stayed — 24% 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 Sterling County, TX in Sterling County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+32
2012
+22
2013
+35
2014
+99
2015
−12
2016
+4
2017
−62
2018
+12
2019
−7
2021
−10
2022
+28
2023
−43
2024
−3
2025
−25
Sterling County's 2024 presidential margin of R+85.8 ranks it among the most one-sided results in the state, a pattern consistent with rural West Texas counties where ranching economies and sparse settlement reinforce durable partisan alignment.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.9 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 86.6 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 85.9 points.
A population of 1,468, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,954 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Meade County and Beaver 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, Sterling County, Texas voted Republican by 85.9 points (R+85.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 629 votes cast, 43 went Democratic and 583 went Republican.
When did Sterling County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Sterling County, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Sterling County, Texas?
Sterling County, Texas has a population of 1,468 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Sterling County, Texas?
Median household income in Sterling County, Texas is $64,954 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Sterling County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Sterling County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
