Coosa County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 5,268 votes cast

Trump · R+43

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−43.3%	1,478	3,758	5,268
2020	R	−33.5%	1,796	3,631	5,479
2016	R	−30.7%	1,782	3,381	5,216
2012	R	−16.3%	2,191	3,049	5,269
2008	R	−17.5%	2,273	3,248	5,563
2004	R	−17.0%	2,055	2,905	5,001
2000	R	−6.1%	2,104	2,382	4,567
1996	D	+9.7%	2,121	1,721	4,131
1992	D	+7.4%	2,330	1,973	4,798
1988	R	−12.7%	1,860	2,405	4,283
1984	R	−18.3%	1,781	2,585	4,385
1980	D	+15.9%	2,383	1,714	4,209
1976	D	+35.5%	2,533	1,196	3,766
1972	R	−54.9%	773	2,672	3,461
1968	D	+7.7%	623	330	3,811
1964	R	−72.8%	0	1,978	2,718
1960	D	+16.3%	1,493	1,073	2,575
1956	D	+13.5%	1,411	1,070	2,519
1952	D	+31.1%	1,501	788	2,291
1948	R	−24.5%	0	275	1,124
1944	D	+46.3%	1,079	394	1,481
1940	D	+61.4%	1,347	317	1,677
1936	D	+68.5%	1,346	239	1,617
1932	D	+66.3%	1,265	250	1,531
1928	R	−21.3%	699	1,078	1,778
1924	D	+21.5%	790	508	1,314
1920	D	+15.1%	1,007	741	1,764
1916	D	+27.5%	867	485	1,389
1912	D	+54.2%	763	109	1,206
1908	D	+21.7%	717	447	1,244
1904	D	+30.3%	933	472	1,523
1900	D	+0.4%	959	951	1,981
1896	D	+42.2%	1,293	499	1,880
1892	D	+36.0%	954	107	2,356
1888	D	+28.5%	1,329	739	2,068
1884	D	+24.9%	1,361	817	2,184
1880	D	+22.8%	1,296	812	2,122
1876	D	+29.5%	1,347	733	2,080

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

23.4%

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. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 50.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.2%

3.6%

75–84

4.2%

8.4%

65–74

7.4%

8.7%

55–64

8.5%

6.5%

45–54

7.2%

5.1%

35–44

5.5%

4.6%

25–34

4.4%

4.2%

18–24

2.5%

6.5%

5–17

6.2%

2.5%

2.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$57,355

Coosa County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Coosa County$57,355

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.1%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

30.6%

Other Christian

13.1%

Methodist

2.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.7%

Mainline Protestant

0.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 52.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Coosa County's population has dwindled for decades alongside its timber and agricultural economy, and its electorate now delivers some of the widest presidential margins in a state already dominated by lopsided rural patterns.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Coosa County, by a six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-three points in 1964. The 2024 margin was forty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Coosa County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 66% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $57,355, and a 13% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Putnam County and Treutlen County.

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Coosa County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.