Jones County, Mississippi

2024 results by precinct

38 precincts · 27,755 votes cast

Trump · R+47

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−46.8%	7,272	20,265	27,755
2020	R	−42.2%	8,517	21,226	30,091
2016	R	−43.5%	7,791	20,133	28,352
2012	R	−38.1%	9,211	20,687	30,159
2008	R	−38.6%	8,846	20,157	29,273
2004	R	−44.0%	7,398	19,125	26,666
2000	R	−35.4%	7,713	16,341	24,340
1996	R	−25.9%	7,360	13,020	21,837
1992	R	−23.7%	8,035	13,824	24,430
1988	R	−38.6%	7,383	16,764	24,272
1984	R	−41.2%	7,298	17,586	24,954
1980	R	−7.3%	11,117	12,900	24,289
1976	R	−4.4%	10,139	11,098	21,552
1972	R	−69.6%	2,790	16,489	19,679
1968	R	−4.3%	2,476	3,242	17,994
1964	R	−71.9%	1,981	12,123	14,104
1960	D	+20.3%	4,871	2,729	10,528
1956	D	+32.4%	5,137	2,463	8,263
1952	D	+18.6%	5,884	4,039	9,923
1948	D	+6.2%	599	193	6,528
1944	D	+86.8%	4,782	337	5,119
1940	D	+89.8%	4,517	242	4,759
1936	D	+91.1%	4,461	185	4,695
1932	D	+87.3%	3,816	173	4,172
1928	D	+11.7%	2,284	1,804	4,088
1924	D	+65.1%	2,373	318	3,155
1920	D	+22.6%	734	419	1,393
1916	D	+70.6%	1,664	196	2,080
1912	D	+71.5%	1,058	34	1,432
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	D	+50.1%	637	194	885
1896	D	+91.0%	934	35	988
1892	D	+76.6%	390	8	499
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

1.0%

African American

22.8%

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: 37.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.6%

2.1%

75–84

2.6%

4.9%

65–74

5.8%

6.0%

55–64

6.5%

5.5%

45–54

5.6%

6.1%

35–44

6.6%

5.6%

25–34

5.9%

4.9%

18–24

4.4%

10.0%

5–17

8.6%

3.2%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$52,216

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

Jones County$52,216

Mississippi$56,447

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

18.7%

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

49.6%

Other Christian

15.1%

Methodist

3.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

3.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.6%

Mainline Protestant

0.9%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 24.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Jones County, in the Piney Woods region of southeast Mississippi, has recorded double-digit Republican presidential margins for decades, with 2024's R+46.8 reflecting a rural, majority-white electorate that has shifted steadily rightward since the 1990s.

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

The political shift has tracked, in Jones County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 64% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $52,216, and a 19% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pickens County and Baldwin County.

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