Jackson County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

30 precincts · 23,556 votes cast

Trump · R+71

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−71.3%	3,276	20,073	23,556
2020	R	−67.5%	3,717	19,670	23,636
2016	R	−62.7%	3,673	16,672	20,738
2012	R	−41.9%	5,822	14,439	20,577
2008	R	−36.9%	6,374	14,083	20,874
2004	R	−14.3%	8,635	11,534	20,321
2000	D	+3.3%	9,066	8,475	17,906
1996	D	+16.4%	8,204	5,650	15,558
1992	D	+26.0%	10,628	5,711	18,916
1988	D	+9.7%	7,418	6,090	13,669
1984	D	+6.2%	7,635	6,730	14,582
1980	D	+27.3%	8,776	4,897	14,203
1976	D	+46.2%	10,989	3,913	15,325
1972	R	−34.2%	2,985	6,202	9,410
1968	R	−1.5%	1,022	1,191	10,908
1964	R	−46.5%	0	2,730	5,875
1960	D	+40.2%	4,789	2,036	6,848
1956	D	+43.5%	4,758	1,868	6,647
1952	D	+48.5%	3,677	1,272	4,959
1948	R	−25.7%	0	603	2,347
1944	D	+48.5%	2,967	1,026	4,000
1940	D	+60.2%	3,818	945	4,772
1936	D	+57.6%	3,450	926	4,383
1932	D	+53.6%	3,112	938	4,058
1928	R	−17.7%	2,153	3,081	5,247
1924	D	+35.7%	1,923	885	2,909
1920	D	+25.7%	2,513	1,483	4,013
1916	D	+53.1%	1,907	567	2,522
1912	D	+60.7%	1,597	229	2,255
1908	D	+47.6%	1,404	469	1,963
1904	D	+41.4%	1,641	666	2,357
1900	D	+6.5%	1,933	1,694	3,691
1896	D	+65.8%	3,556	675	4,379
1892	D	+65.0%	3,044	0	4,682
1888	D	+38.1%	2,304	1,022	3,366
1884	D	+32.3%	2,217	1,052	3,611
1880	D	+40.4%	2,059	599	3,614
1876	D	+59.0%	2,689	694	3,383

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

2.6%

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: 43.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.1%

3.0%

75–84

3.8%

6.0%

65–74

6.5%

7.1%

55–64

7.2%

6.7%

45–54

6.3%

5.8%

35–44

6.3%

5.7%

25–34

5.6%

3.9%

18–24

3.8%

8.0%

5–17

7.4%

2.6%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$51,908

Jackson County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Jackson County$51,908

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.3%

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

31.5%

Other Christian

8.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.5%

Methodist

3.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.6%

Mainline Protestant

2.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Jackson County, anchored by the Tennessee River valley in Alabama's northeastern corner, recorded an R+71.3 presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest gaps in a state already defined by deep rural Republican dominance.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Jackson County peaked at sixty-six points in 1896; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of fourteen points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Jackson County's median household income of $51,908 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Latimer County and Lawrence County.

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For twenty-four years, Jackson County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.