Jackson County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

31 precincts · 52,497 votes cast

Trump · R+40

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−39.8%	15,469	36,376	52,497
2020	R	−34.7%	17,375	36,295	54,543
2016	R	−38.3%	14,657	33,629	49,567
2012	R	−34.4%	17,299	35,747	53,655
2008	R	−33.5%	17,781	35,993	54,296
2004	R	−38.3%	15,572	35,134	51,075
2000	R	−35.2%	14,193	30,068	45,107
1996	R	−27.2%	13,598	24,918	41,625
1992	R	−27.4%	13,017	25,321	44,930
1988	R	−48.3%	10,328	29,830	40,364
1984	R	−53.9%	8,821	29,585	38,529
1980	R	−28.6%	12,226	22,498	35,958
1976	R	−14.9%	12,533	17,177	31,082
1972	R	−78.6%	2,534	22,204	25,038
1968	R	−3.5%	2,236	2,942	20,439
1964	R	−65.5%	2,371	11,357	13,728
1960	D	+29.8%	5,000	2,266	9,174
1956	D	+17.2%	3,882	2,692	6,906
1952	D	+31.3%	4,146	2,170	6,316
1948	D	+14.7%	783	238	3,713
1944	D	+85.0%	2,636	213	2,849
1940	D	+84.9%	2,124	171	2,300
1936	D	+86.5%	1,704	120	1,831
1932	D	+85.2%	1,634	126	1,770
1928	D	+38.0%	1,261	567	1,828
1924	D	+72.8%	1,010	158	1,170
1920	D	+65.0%	577	121	702
1916	D	+77.0%	743	87	852
1912	D	+81.6%	514	14	613
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+43.4%	425	166	597
1896	D	+54.7%	723	181	991
1892	D	+86.9%	453	16	503
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%

Polish

1.4%

African American

15.2%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

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: 40.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

0.9%

2.3%

75–84

2.8%

5.0%

65–74

5.6%

6.7%

55–64

6.8%

6.3%

45–54

6.4%

6.3%

35–44

6.8%

6.2%

25–34

6.6%

4.0%

18–24

3.8%

8.8%

5–17

8.4%

2.9%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$66,201

Jackson County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Jackson County$66,201

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.8%

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

19.3%

Other Christian

11.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

5.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

5.6%

Methodist

5.3%

Mainline Protestant

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Anchored by Pascagoula's shipbuilding economy and a largely white coastal population, Jackson County has shifted steadily rightward over two decades, landing at an R+39.9 margin in 2024 — one of the widest gaps on Mississippi's coast.

The shift began with civil rights. 1964 marked the realignment in Jackson County, by a sixty-five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-nine points in 1972. The 2024 margin was forty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Jackson County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 67% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $66,201, and a 14% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Augusta County and Houston County.

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