† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
20042024
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
GroupCordeleGeorgiaUnited States
African American†66.8%27.4%9.9%
African1.2%0.8%0.5%
Ethiopian0.3%0.2%—
American5.6%7.6%5.3%
English4.1%10.3%9.5%
Irish1.7%6.9%9.4%
Scottish1.7%1.7%1.3%
German1.0%6.3%12.5%
Italian0.6%2.2%4.8%
French0.6%1.0%1.6%
Scotch-Irish0.4%——
Mexican4.4%5.5%11.3%
Honduran1.1%0.4%0.3%
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
Cordele
Georgia
United States
Median age
36.3
37.7
39.1
Age 18–24
9.6%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.0%
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Cordele
Georgia
United States
Median household income
$33,800
$77,353
$84,427
Poverty rate
29.0%
13.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
13.3%
34.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Cordele
Georgia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.6%
15.5%
22.3%
Spanish
3.6%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Cordele
Georgia
United States
Catholic
—
8.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
26.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
—
49.3%
51.5%
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.
Cordele, Georgia
presidential history
Presidential margin, 2004–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
2004
+16.5%
2008
+24.7%
2012
+13.6%
2016
+4.6%
2020
+2.9%
2024
+3.8%
DemocraticRepublican
6 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. Third-party votes in 2012 are allocated from certified county totals by this place's share of each county's two-party vote — that cycle's precinct source records two-party splits. † 2004 sub-county results are estimated: the source's block-level detail for this cycle was unreliable — either county/municipality-level consolidated reporting (COVID-era) or a precinct-to-block allocation that misplaced votes — so the figures are allocated from the constituent county totals in proportion to the place and scaled to certified totals.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
51.8%Harris1,805
47.9%Trump1,671
0.3%
D+3.8
D+0.9
D+5.3
3,487
D
51.0%Biden1,812
48.0%Trump1,708
1.0%
D+2.9
R+1.7
R+1.5
3,555
D
51.5%Clinton1,766
46.9%Trump1,609
1.6%
D+4.6
R+9.0
D+2.5
3,430
D
56.5%Obama1,953
42.8%Romney1,482
0.7%
D+13.6
R+11.1
D+9.8
3,459
D
61.5%Obama1,823
36.9%McCain1,092
1.6%
D+24.7
D+8.2
D+17.4
2,963
D
58.0%Kerry1,372
41.6%Bush983
0.4%
D+16.5
—
D+18.9
2,364
Cordele sits at the junction of I-75 and U.S. 280, giving it outsized commercial weight for a city under 10,000. Its electorate is majority Black and has returned Democratic margins in presidential races by roughly 2-to-1 in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.7 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.8 points.
A population of 9,994, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $33,800 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Brownsville and Sandersville.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities 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, Cordele, Georgia voted Democratic by 3.8 points (D+3.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,487 votes cast, 1,805 went Democratic and 1,671 went Republican.
How many people live in Cordele, Georgia?
Cordele, Georgia has a population of 9,994 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cordele, Georgia?
Median household income in Cordele, Georgia is $33,800 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Cordele, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Cordele, Georgia from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
