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
GroupMathews CountyVirginiaUnited States
American38.7%8.4%5.3%
English14.6%12.0%9.5%
Irish7.5%9.1%9.4%
German7.3%10.1%12.5%
Scotch-Irish4.3%——
Italian3.5%3.9%4.8%
Polish1.7%1.6%2.2%
Scottish1.5%1.9%1.3%
African American†8.6%15.6%9.9%
African0.7%0.9%0.5%
Jamaican0.4%0.3%0.4%
Bolivian0.9%0.4%—
Mexican0.6%2.4%11.3%
Salvadoran0.5%2.1%0.7%
Spaniard0.5%——
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
Mathews County
Virginia
United States
Median age
55
39.3
39.1
Age 18–24
7.3%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
33.4%
16.7%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Mathews County
Virginia
United States
Median household income
$75,880
$93,170
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.8%
10.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
28.4%
42.3%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Mathews County
Virginia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.6%
17.5%
22.3%
Spanish
2.6%
7.9%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Mathews County
Virginia
United States
Catholic
4.1%
10.2%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
56.4%
19.9%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
19.1%
54.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
20.4%
8.4%
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.
Mathews County, Virginia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
6 precincts · 5,945 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Mathews County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -003 - PIANKATANK003 - PIANKATANK
728
1,768
34
2,530
28.8%
69.9%
R+41.1
Precinct -002 - WESTVILLE002 - WESTVILLE
663
1,408
20
2,091
31.7%
67.3%
R+35.6
Precinct -001 - CHESAPEAKE001 - CHESAPEAKE
383
930
11
1,324
28.9%
70.2%
R+41.3
Chesapeake51115000001
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Piankatank51115000003
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Westville51115000002
0
0
0
0
—
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Even
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+21.3%
1896
+27.6%
1900
+41.0%
1904
+57.3%
1908
+73.4%
1912
+79.4%
1916
+70.2%
1920
+47.7%
1924
+54.7%
1928
−33.0%
1932
+14.2%
1936
+15.8%
1940
+25.7%
1944
+11.2%
1948
−3.1%
1952
−28.1%
1956
−39.3%
1960
−22.1%
1964
−10.3%
1968
−22.3%
1972
−39.8%
1976
−18.1%
1980
−24.3%
1984
−44.0%
1988
−37.2%
1992
−17.2%
1996
−14.2%
2000
−31.5%
2004
−37.2%
2008
−28.0%
2012
−31.3%
2016
−36.8%
2020
−35.6%
2024
−39.2%
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
29.8%Harris1,774
69.1%Trump4,106
0.4%Oliver25 +4
R+39.2
R+3.6
R+37.8
5,945
All 7 candidates in 2024 · 5 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican69.1%4,106
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic29.8%1,774
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%25
OtherAll other candidates0.3%16
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%13
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.1%8
Cornel R WestIndependent0.1%3
R
31.3%Biden1,825
67.0%Trump3,901
1.5%Jorgensen87
R+35.6
D+1.2
R+40.1
5,826
R
29.4%Clinton1,563
66.2%Trump3,517
2.8%Johnson147
R+36.8
R+5.5
R+38.9
5,311
R
33.6%Obama1,807
64.9%Romney3,488
1.5%
R+31.3
R+3.3
R+35.1
5,374
R
35.6%Obama1,934
63.5%McCain3,456
0.9%
R+28.0
D+9.2
R+35.3
5,440
R
31.0%Kerry1,589
68.2%Bush3,497
0.8%
R+37.2
R+5.7
R+34.7
5,129
R
32.5%Gore1,499
64.0%Bush2,951
1.9%Nader88
R+31.5
R+17.3
R+32.0
4,609
R
37.6%Clinton1,602
51.8%Dole2,206
9.5%Perot403
R+14.2
D+3.0
R+22.7
4,260
R
31.0%Clinton1,402
48.2%Bush2,179
19.5%Perot884
R+17.2
D+20.0
R+22.7
4,525
R
30.3%Dukakis1,235
67.5%Bush2,752
2.2%
R+37.2
D+6.8
R+29.5
4,076
R
27.6%Mondale1,106
71.6%Reagan2,868
0.8%
R+44.0
R+19.7
R+25.8
4,005
R
35.0%Carter1,300
59.3%Reagan2,204
5.7%
R+24.3
R+6.2
R+14.6
3,716
R
39.6%Carter1,309
57.8%Ford1,908
2.6%
R+18.1
D+21.7
R+20.2
3,303
R
29.3%McGovern1,044
69.1%Nixon2,464
1.6%
R+39.8
R+17.6
R+16.7
3,564
R
24.9%Humphrey691
47.1%Nixon1,309
28.0%
R+22.3
R+12.0
R+21.6
2,777
R
44.8%Johnson862
55.1%Goldwater1,060
0.1%
R+10.3
D+11.8
R+32.9
1,923
R
38.9%Kennedy682
60.9%Nixon1,069
0.2%
R+22.1
D+17.3
R+22.2
1,754
R
26.1%Stevenson406
65.4%Eisenhower1,018
8.5%
R+39.3
R+11.3
R+23.9
1,556
R
35.8%Stevenson533
63.9%Eisenhower951
0.3%
R+28.1
R+25.0
R+17.3
1,489
R
44.4%Truman458
47.5%Dewey490
8.1%
R+3.1
R+14.3
R+7.6
1,031
D
55.6%Roosevelt615
44.4%Dewey491
0.1%
D+11.2
R+14.5
D+3.7
1,107
D
62.5%Roosevelt592
36.9%Willkie349
0.6%
D+25.7
D+9.9
D+15.7
947
D
57.6%Roosevelt622
41.9%Landon452
0.5%
D+15.8
D+1.5
R+8.5
1,079
D
56.5%Roosevelt652
42.3%Hoover488
1.2%
D+14.2
D+47.2
R+3.6
1,154
R
33.5%Smith431
66.5%Hoover855
0.0%
R+33.0
R+87.7
R+15.5
1,286
D
76.8%Davis678
22.1%Coolidge195
1.1%La Follette10
D+54.7
D+7.0
D+79.9
883
D
72.9%Cox624
25.2%Harding216
1.9%
D+47.7
R+22.5
D+73.9
856
D
83.9%Wilson549
13.8%Hughes90
2.3%
D+70.2
R+9.2
D+67.0
654
D
86.9%Wilson523
7.5%Taft45
5.6%
D+79.4
D+6.0
D+59.9
602
D
86.2%Bryan577
12.9%Taft86
0.9%
D+73.4
D+16.1
D+82.9
669
D
76.9%Parker467
19.6%Roosevelt119
3.5%
D+57.3
D+16.3
D+77.0
607
D
68.9%Bryan726
27.9%McKinley294
3.2%
D+41.0
D+13.4
D+48.5
1,054
D
62.4%Bryan797
34.7%McKinley444
2.9%
D+27.6
D+6.4
D+33.7
1,278
D
58.2%Cleveland931
36.9%Harrison591
4.9%
D+21.3
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D+19.6
1,600
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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
31.8%1,872
68.2%4,015
5,887
2020
R
33.5%1,943
66.5%3,856
5,799
2018
R
35.5%1,566
63.2%2,791
4,415
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Mathews County, VA
Year
Total registered
2016
7,105
2018
6,977
2020
7,191
2022
7,361
2024
7,566
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+16 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +790 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $67,075 in average income, against $88,838 for residents who stayed — 24% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+38.2 on average — about the same lean as Mathews County, VA (R+39.2).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Gloucester County, VA57R+38.2
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Gloucester County, VA45
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 Mathews County, VA in Mathews County, VA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+28
2012
+3
2013
+45
2014
−53
2015
+85
2016
+10
2017
+17
2018
+130
2019
+103
2021
+122
2022
+24
2023
+166
2024
+94
2025
+16
Mathews County, surrounded on three sides by tidal water, has voted Republican by double digits in every presidential race this century, and its 2024 margin of R+39.3 reflects a rural coastal electorate with little demographic counterweight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 44.0 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.2 points.
A population of 8,540, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,880 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mercer County and Bristol city.
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, Mathews County, Virginia voted Republican by 39.2 points (R+39.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 5,945 votes cast, 1,774 went Democratic and 4,106 went Republican.
When did Mathews County, Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mathews County, Virginia voted Democratic was 1944.
How many people live in Mathews County, Virginia?
Mathews County, Virginia has a population of 8,540 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mathews County, Virginia?
Median household income in Mathews County, Virginia is $75,880 — below the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Mathews County, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mathews County, Virginia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
