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
GroupWilbarger CountyTexasUnited States
German12.9%8.3%12.5%
English10.2%7.9%9.5%
Irish6.7%6.0%9.4%
American6.4%4.6%5.3%
Scottish1.7%1.3%1.3%
Italian0.8%1.9%4.8%
French0.6%1.5%1.6%
Swedish0.6%——
Mexican25.0%32.1%11.3%
Spaniard2.7%0.3%—
Puerto Rican0.5%0.8%1.8%
Spanish0.2%——
African American†4.6%10.3%9.9%
African1.2%0.6%0.5%
Burmese2.6%——
Filipino0.3%0.5%0.9%
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
Wilbarger County
Texas
United States
Median age
40.5
35.7
39.1
Age 18–24
9.1%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
19.8%
13.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wilbarger County
Texas
United States
Median household income
$54,102
$78,476
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.5%
13.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
17.2%
33.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wilbarger County
Texas
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
18.0%
35.2%
22.3%
Spanish
15.2%
28.2%
13.6%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
2.3%
1.1%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wilbarger County
Texas
United States
Catholic
5.5%
20.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
68.1%
23.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
13.6%
45.2%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.0%
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.
Wilbarger County, Texas
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 4,467 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Wilbarger County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -Precinct 21Precinct 21
188
1,257
13
1,458
12.9%
86.2%
R+73.3
Precinct -Precinct 1APrecinct 1A
237
1,053
9
1,299
18.2%
81.1%
R+62.8
Precinct -Precinct 19Precinct 19
265
696
14
975
27.2%
71.4%
R+44.2
Precinct -Precinct 20Precinct 20
159
502
5
666
23.9%
75.4%
R+51.5
Precinct -Precinct 1BPrecinct 1B
11
58
0
69
15.9%
84.1%
R+68.1
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1904–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1904
+63.3%
1908
+71.2%
1912
+72.9%
1916
+78.3%
1920
+50.8%
1924
+60.4%
1928
−4.7%
1932
+88.6%
1936
+82.0%
1940
+64.6%
1944
+64.8%
1948
+64.1%
1952
−6.6%
1956
+2.6%
1960
−9.3%
1964
+35.0%
1968
+1.7%
1972
−45.2%
1976
+20.7%
1980
−12.5%
1984
−28.8%
1988
−8.5%
1992
−0.7%
1996
−7.2%
2000
−38.9%
2004
−48.1%
2008
−46.3%
2012
−49.9%
2016
−57.4%
2020
−56.8%
2024
−60.6%
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
19.3%Harris860
79.8%Trump3,566
0.6%Oliver28 +2
R+60.6
R+3.8
R+59.1
4,467
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican79.8%3,566
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic19.3%860
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%28
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%9
OtherAll other candidates0.1%4
R
21.1%Biden956
77.9%Trump3,524
0.7%Jorgensen33
R+56.8
D+0.7
R+61.2
4,524
R
19.7%Clinton809
77.1%Trump3,166
2.8%Johnson115
R+57.4
R+7.5
R+59.5
4,105
R
24.4%Obama971
74.3%Romney2,956
1.1%Gray42
R+49.9
R+3.6
R+53.7
3,980
R
26.5%Obama1,196
72.8%McCain3,283
0.7%
R+46.3
D+1.8
R+53.6
4,509
R
25.7%Kerry1,284
73.8%Bush3,685
0.4%
R+48.1
R+9.2
R+45.7
4,990
R
29.6%Gore1,356
68.6%Bush3,138
0.9%Nader43
R+38.9
R+31.7
R+39.5
4,577
R
40.5%Clinton1,730
47.7%Dole2,037
10.9%Perot465
R+7.2
R+6.5
R+15.7
4,268
R
36.0%Clinton1,924
36.7%Bush1,959
27.2%Perot1,453
R+0.7
D+7.9
R+6.2
5,340
R
45.6%Dukakis2,248
54.1%Bush2,669
0.2%
R+8.5
D+20.2
R+0.8
4,929
R
35.4%Mondale2,011
64.2%Reagan3,644
0.3%
R+28.8
R+16.3
R+10.6
5,673
R
43.0%Carter2,347
55.5%Reagan3,031
1.6%
R+12.5
R+33.2
R+2.8
5,463
D
59.9%Carter3,280
39.2%Ford2,145
0.9%
D+20.7
D+66.0
D+18.7
5,476
R
25.2%McGovern1,139
70.4%Nixon3,183
4.4%
R+45.2
R+46.9
R+22.1
4,519
D
38.4%Humphrey1,996
36.7%Nixon1,909
24.9%
D+1.7
R+33.4
D+2.4
5,198
D
67.5%Johnson3,200
32.5%Goldwater1,539
0.1%
D+35.0
D+44.3
D+12.4
4,742
R
45.2%Kennedy2,319
54.5%Nixon2,796
0.3%
R+9.3
R+11.9
R+9.5
5,129
D
51.2%Stevenson2,347
48.6%Eisenhower2,230
0.2%
D+2.6
D+9.1
D+18.0
4,587
R
46.7%Stevenson2,646
53.3%Eisenhower3,019
0.0%
R+6.6
R+70.6
D+4.2
5,666
D
78.0%Truman2,963
13.9%Dewey529
8.1%
D+64.1
R+0.8
D+59.6
3,800
D
76.5%Roosevelt3,382
11.7%Dewey517
11.8%
D+64.8
D+0.3
D+57.3
4,419
D
82.2%Roosevelt3,249
17.6%Willkie697
0.2%
D+64.6
R+17.4
D+54.6
3,952
D
90.8%Roosevelt3,279
8.7%Landon316
0.5%
D+82.0
R+6.6
D+57.7
3,613
D
94.1%Roosevelt3,397
5.5%Hoover199
0.4%
D+88.6
D+93.3
D+70.8
3,609
R
47.6%Smith1,447
52.3%Hoover1,590
0.1%
R+4.7
R+65.1
D+12.8
3,040
D
77.4%Davis1,222
17.0%Coolidge269
5.5%La Follette87
D+60.4
D+9.6
D+85.6
1,578
D
72.5%Cox1,118
21.7%Harding335
5.8%
D+50.8
R+27.6
D+77.0
1,542
D
85.1%Wilson1,242
6.8%Hughes99
8.1%
D+78.3
D+5.4
D+75.2
1,459
D
76.3%Wilson993
3.4%Taft44
20.3%
D+72.9
D+1.7
D+53.4
1,301
D
82.9%Bryan780
11.7%Taft110
5.4%
D+71.2
D+7.9
D+80.8
941
D
74.3%Parker391
11.0%Roosevelt58
14.6%
D+63.3
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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
20.9%926
77.1%3,419
4,433
2020
R
19.8%874
78.6%3,473
4,419
2018
R
22.6%776
76.7%2,639
3,439
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Wilbarger County, TX
Year
Total registered
2018
8,137
2020
8,196
2022
8,360
2024
8,126
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+6 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,208 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $40,467 in average income, against $85,770 for residents who stayed — 53% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+53.6 on average — 7.0 points more Democratic-leaning than Wilbarger County, TX itself (R+60.6).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Wichita County, TX54R+44.0
Hardeman County, TX27R+72.7
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Wichita County, TX73
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 Wilbarger County, TX in Wilbarger County, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−93
2012
−225
2013
−84
2014
−221
2015
+48
2016
−202
2017
−173
2018
+72
2019
−20
2021
−92
2022
−158
2023
−15
2024
−51
2025
+6
Wilbarger County anchors the far north Texas plains around Vernon, where an agriculture-driven economy and sparse population have produced some of the state's most lopsided presidential margins over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 60.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.6 points.
A population of 12,616, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,102 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Collingsworth County and Eastland 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, Wilbarger County, Texas voted Republican by 60.6 points (R+60.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 4,467 votes cast, 860 went Democratic and 3,566 went Republican.
When did Wilbarger County, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wilbarger County, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Wilbarger County, Texas?
Wilbarger County, Texas has a population of 12,616 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wilbarger County, Texas?
Median household income in Wilbarger County, Texas is $54,102 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Wilbarger County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Wilbarger County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
