Pickens County, South Carolina

2024 results by precinct

61 precincts · 60,451 votes cast

Trump · R+53

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−52.7%	13,891	45,728	60,451
2020	R	−50.8%	13,645	42,907	57,546
2016	R	−52.8%	10,354	36,236	49,049
2012	R	−49.0%	11,156	33,474	45,549
2008	R	−46.2%	11,691	32,552	45,128
2004	R	−48.1%	10,287	29,759	40,510
2000	R	−45.6%	8,927	24,681	34,582
1996	R	−31.5%	8,369	17,151	27,900
1992	R	−29.6%	8,275	17,008	29,494
1988	R	−47.9%	6,103	17,448	23,696
1984	R	−54.0%	4,481	15,155	19,764
1980	R	−10.0%	7,789	9,575	17,923
1976	D	+2.9%	8,505	8,029	16,655
1972	R	−66.6%	2,255	11,776	14,296
1968	R	−36.5%	2,016	6,873	13,313
1964	R	−25.3%	3,506	5,882	9,391
1960	R	−24.5%	2,546	4,201	6,747
1956	D	+2.3%	1,847	1,747	4,278
1952	R	−3.9%	2,865	3,096	5,961
1948	D	+13.9%	435	165	1,944
1944	D	+58.8%	1,662	211	2,468
1940	D	+93.1%	2,122	76	2,198
1936	D	+98.2%	2,678	0	2,728
1932	D	+97.9%	2,685	0	2,742
1928	D	+70.5%	1,110	192	1,302
1924	D	+93.3%	1,044	35	1,082
1920	D	+87.6%	955	63	1,018
1916	D	+94.5%	1,139	7	1,198
1912	D	+96.1%	815	0	848
1908	D	+91.4%	1,241	56	1,297
1904	D	+98.7%	914	6	920
1900	D	+87.9%	933	60	993
1896	D	+76.2%	1,261	170	1,431
1892	D	+39.6%	603	129	1,196
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

4.6%

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: 36.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.3%

2.4%

75–84

3.0%

4.8%

65–74

5.2%

6.0%

55–64

6.3%

5.3%

45–54

5.6%

5.4%

35–44

5.4%

6.4%

25–34

5.9%

9.5%

18–24

8.3%

7.2%

5–17

6.8%

2.4%

2.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$61,064

Pickens County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Pickens County$61,064

South Carolina$69,324

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.2%

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

23.8%

Other Christian

9.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.9%

Methodist

3.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

3.5%

Mainline Protestant

3.0%

Non-Christian

0.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 52.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Pickens County sits in the Blue Ridge foothills and has delivered Republican presidential margins above 50 points in recent cycles, driven by a mix of rural townships and the college town of Clemson, whose university presence tempers but doesn't reverse the county's conservative lean.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Pickens County, by a ten points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-seven points in 1972. The 2024 margin was fifty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Pickens County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 84% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $61,064, and a 17% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baldwin County and Jones County.

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