Pickens County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

19 precincts · 8,912 votes cast

Trump · R+23

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−23.3%	3,388	5,465	8,912
2020	R	−16.3%	4,022	5,594	9,668
2016	R	−15.7%	3,972	5,456	9,477
2012	R	−7.0%	4,455	5,124	9,611
2008	R	−8.3%	4,594	5,434	10,067
2004	R	−13.7%	3,915	5,170	9,132
2000	R	−1.9%	4,143	4,306	8,540
1996	D	+9.0%	4,018	3,322	7,773
1992	D	+1.8%	3,783	3,634	8,142
1988	R	−10.7%	3,107	3,851	6,982
1984	R	−13.2%	3,586	4,685	8,296
1980	D	+11.3%	4,504	3,582	8,182
1976	D	+11.9%	3,776	2,969	6,786
1972	R	−35.4%	1,933	4,071	6,046
1968	D	+17.6%	1,434	321	6,328
1964	R	−82.1%	0	3,416	4,162
1960	D	+17.7%	1,836	1,277	3,156
1956	D	+23.6%	1,660	993	2,824
1952	D	+25.1%	1,519	905	2,442
1948	R	−6.0%	0	91	1,524
1944	D	+74.9%	1,482	209	1,699
1940	D	+84.5%	1,714	140	1,863
1936	D	+87.6%	1,665	107	1,779
1932	D	+79.6%	1,479	128	1,698
1928	D	+23.7%	1,028	634	1,662
1924	D	+76.4%	1,045	132	1,195
1920	D	+67.9%	1,419	263	1,702
1916	D	+67.7%	1,179	218	1,419
1912	D	+85.6%	815	22	926
1908	D	+78.1%	816	69	956
1904	D	+71.7%	866	105	1,062
1900	D	+52.7%	797	203	1,127
1896	D	+79.8%	2,210	211	2,504
1892	D	+60.8%	1,919	83	3,018
1888	D	+97.4%	1,326	17	1,344
1884	D	+93.9%	1,085	31	1,123
1880	D	+75.9%	1,562	214	1,776
1876	D	+95.6%	2,158	48	2,206

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

32.7%

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: 42.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.5%

2.6%

75–84

3.3%

5.5%

65–74

6.1%

7.1%

55–64

7.2%

5.0%

45–54

6.5%

7.5%

35–44

6.2%

6.7%

25–34

6.2%

5.3%

18–24

3.4%

7.3%

5–17

6.8%

2.6%

2.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$46,274

Pickens County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Pickens County$46,274

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.0%

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

42.2%

Methodist

15.6%

Other Christian

5.4%

Mainline Protestant

3.0%

Non-Christian

2.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.9%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 30.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Pickens sits on Alabama's Black Belt fringe, where a majority-Black population and declining rural economy have produced shifting but persistently lopsided presidential results — the 2024 margin of R+23.3 continues a decade-long trend away from its historic Democratic lean.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Pickens County, by a two points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-two points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Pickens County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $46,274, and a 20% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Brooks County and Coosa County.

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