Val Verde County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted R+27%. Democratic peak: D+54 in 1932.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 47,7412024 5-year
- Median household income
- $66,1002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 81.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Luna County, NM · similarity 0.89
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Val Verde CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Val Verde County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +15.6% |
| 1916 | +52.9% |
| 1920 | +17.0% |
| 1924 | −2.3% |
| 1928 | −15.9% |
| 1932 | +54.0% |
| 1936 | +42.8% |
| 1940 | +45.0% |
| 1944 | +26.9% |
| 1948 | +28.8% |
| 1952 | −2.3% |
| 1956 | −1.9% |
| 1960 | +13.8% |
| 1964 | +45.1% |
| 1968 | +22.7% |
| 1972 | −32.7% |
| 1976 | +13.8% |
| 1980 | −10.0% |
| 1984 | −21.0% |
| 1988 | −0.6% |
| 1992 | +5.9% |
| 1996 | +11.9% |
| 2000 | −10.2% |
| 2004 | −18.7% |
| 2008 | +9.6% |
| 2012 | +5.4% |
| 2016 | +7.9% |
| 2020 | −9.9% |
| 2024 | −26.6% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 5,282 | 9,162 | 14,612 | ||
| R | 6,771 | 8,284 | 15,280 | ||
| D | 6,964 | 5,890 | 13,617 | ||
| D | 6,285 | 5,635 | 12,081 | ||
| D | 6,982 | 5,752 | 12,820 | ||
| R | 4,757 | 6,968 | 11,795 | ||
| R | 5,056 | 6,223 | 11,474 | ||
| D | 5,623 | 4,357 | 10,600 | ||
| D | 4,748 | 4,102 | 10,996 | ||
| R | 5,044 | 5,109 | 10,211 | ||
| R | 3,857 | 5,909 | 9,787 | ||
| R | 4,116 | 5,055 | 9,353 | ||
| D | 4,603 | 3,476 | 8,152 | ||
| R | 2,049 | 4,052 | 6,124 | ||
| D | 3,205 | 1,914 | 5,698 | ||
| D | 3,555 | 1,346 | 4,902 | ||
| D | 2,049 | 1,551 | 3,603 | ||
| R | 1,598 | 1,660 | 3,267 | ||
| R | 1,647 | 1,725 | 3,373 | ||
| D | 1,242 | 672 | 1,978 | ||
| D | 1,210 | 676 | 1,985 | ||
| D | 1,628 | 616 | 2,247 | ||
| D | 1,262 | 504 | 1,771 | ||
| D | 1,412 | 421 | 1,835 | ||
| R | 620 | 854 | 1,474 | ||
| R | 434 | 457 | 998 | ||
| D | 418 | 296 | 718 | ||
| D | 446 | 135 | 588 | ||
| D | 298 | 196 | 652 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
4.6%
English
3.6%
Irish
3.3%
American
2.5%
Italian
0.9%
French
0.9%
Scottish
0.9%
African American
1.1%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 32.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$66,100
Val Verde County ranks near the middle of US counties.
Val Verde County$66,100
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
Val Verde County ranks near the middle of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
16.6%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1818.5%
Working age (18–64)14.6%
Seniors (65+)28.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
36.2%
speak English only
Spanish62.8%
Other Indo-European0.6%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.4%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 58.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Val Verde sits along 90 miles of the Rio Grande opposite Coahuila, Mexico, and its majority-Hispanic electorate has trended Republican over successive cycles, producing a 26-point margin in 2024 after delivering much narrower results a decade earlier.
Val Verde County has leaned Republican in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of fifty-four points in 1932. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved seventeen points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $66,100, and a population of 47,741. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Luna County and Valencia County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Val Verde County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Val Verde County, Texas voted Republican by 26.6 points (R+27), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 14,612 votes cast, 5,282 went Democratic and 9,162 went Republican.
What is Val Verde County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places Val Verde County, Texas in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 17 times, Republican 12 times, and other 0 times.
When did Val Verde County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Val Verde County, Texas voted Democratic was 2016.
How many people live in Val Verde County, Texas?
Val Verde County, Texas has a population of 47,741 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Val Verde County, Texas?
Median household income in Val Verde County, Texas is $66,100 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Val Verde County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Val Verde County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 12 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.