Chowan County, North Carolina

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 7,552 votes cast

Trump · R+22

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−22.4%	2,895	4,587	7,552
2020	R	−15.7%	3,247	4,471	7,784
2016	R	−14.1%	2,992	4,014	7,228
2012	R	−4.5%	3,556	3,891	7,505
2008	R	−1.1%	3,688	3,773	7,512
2004	R	−10.4%	2,406	2,967	5,386
2000	R	−0.3%	2,415	2,430	4,890
1996	D	+13.6%	2,239	1,659	4,276
1992	D	+10.5%	2,136	1,661	4,506
1988	R	−3.5%	1,756	1,884	3,654
1984	R	−11.1%	1,736	2,171	3,918
1980	D	+19.7%	2,146	1,424	3,660
1976	D	+29.2%	1,862	1,019	2,889
1972	R	−33.8%	936	1,906	2,871
1968	D	+10.9%	1,201	798	3,695
1964	D	+36.6%	1,696	787	2,483
1960	D	+56.5%	1,920	533	2,453
1956	D	+45.5%	1,485	556	2,041
1952	D	+45.9%	1,448	537	1,985
1948	D	+74.3%	1,070	124	1,274
1944	D	+77.6%	1,314	166	1,480
1940	D	+89.4%	1,547	87	1,634
1936	D	+88.3%	1,550	96	1,646
1932	D	+92.2%	1,639	64	1,708
1928	D	+45.3%	936	352	1,288
1924	D	+75.4%	714	98	817
1920	D	+67.8%	1,091	209	1,300
1916	D	+73.9%	610	91	702
1912	D	+75.4%	663	60	800
1908	D	+48.9%	621	213	834
1904	D	+58.9%	573	148	721
1900	R	−1.9%	898	932	1,830
1896	R	−18.3%	791	1,146	1,937
1892	R	−12.4%	679	882	1,641
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

3.1%

African American

26.2%

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: 48.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.1%

3.0%

75–84

3.9%

7.6%

65–74

9.4%

6.9%

55–64

8.3%

6.3%

45–54

6.0%

5.4%

35–44

5.5%

6.6%

25–34

4.4%

1.9%

18–24

3.5%

7.4%

5–17

6.8%

2.3%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,864

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

Chowan County$53,864

North Carolina$72,388

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.1%

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

Other Christian

58.5%

Baptist

23.3%

Catholic & Orthodox

9.6%

Methodist

8.7%

Mainline Protestant

3.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.6%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 0.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Chowan's roughly 14,500 residents sit along the Albemarle Sound in northeastern North Carolina, where a shrinking population and an economy tied to agriculture and timber have correlated with steadily shifting presidential preferences over the past decade.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Chowan County, by a zero points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at thirty-four points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Chowan County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 60% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $53,864, and a 19% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Southampton County and Chesterfield County.

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