Appling County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 8,334 votes cast

Trump · R+62

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−62.4%	1,560	6,761	8,334
2020	R	−56.9%	1,779	6,526	8,341
2016	R	−57.9%	1,434	5,494	7,012
2012	R	−49.0%	1,758	5,233	7,093
2008	R	−46.3%	1,846	5,085	6,996
2004	R	−41.5%	1,848	4,494	6,373
2000	R	−30.3%	2,093	3,940	6,099
1996	R	−9.8%	2,070	2,572	5,099
1992	R	−1.0%	2,455	2,514	6,027
1988	R	−23.9%	1,837	3,000	4,859
1984	R	−19.9%	1,958	2,929	4,887
1980	D	+20.5%	2,985	1,961	5,007
1976	D	+57.7%	3,585	961	4,546
1972	R	−68.7%	512	2,755	3,267
1968	R	−0.8%	760	795	4,233
1964	R	−24.9%	1,562	2,597	4,159
1960	D	+46.7%	1,973	717	2,690
1956	D	+54.5%	1,719	506	2,225
1952	D	+50.7%	2,179	713	2,892
1948	D	+61.7%	2,268	289	3,207
1944	D	+54.6%	1,318	387	1,705
1940	D	+65.3%	1,514	312	1,842
1936	D	+80.2%	1,309	140	1,457
1932	D	+80.8%	601	64	665
1928	R	−16.5%	415	579	994
1924	D	+65.4%	212	44	257
1920	D	+23.0%	313	196	509
1916	D	+64.3%	413	44	574
1912	D	+45.0%	381	94	638
1908	R	−0.1%	249	250	743
1904	D	+35.5%	554	237	893
1900	D	+3.3%	477	446	947
1896	D	+34.1%	996	488	1,489
1892	D	+28.8%	554	219	1,164
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

14.5%

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: 39.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

1.2%

2.7%

75–84

3.0%

5.5%

65–74

5.7%

6.2%

55–64

6.3%

5.3%

45–54

6.7%

7.1%

35–44

5.6%

6.5%

25–34

5.8%

4.2%

18–24

3.3%

10.1%

5–17

8.2%

2.7%

3.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$46,651

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

Appling County$46,651

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

22.5%

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

51.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

8.0%

Methodist

5.7%

Other Christian

4.9%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.9%

Mainline Protestant

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 29.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Appling County, anchored by the small city of Baxley in southeastern Georgia, has delivered lopsided Republican presidential margins for decades, reflecting the deep-red lean typical of the state's timber-belt counties with aging, majority-white rural populations.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Appling County peaked at eighty-one points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Appling County's median household income of $46,651 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jeff Davis County and West Carroll Parish.

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