Grundy County, Tennessee

2024 results by precinct

10 precincts · 6,328 votes cast

Trump · R+69

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−69.3%	948	5,334	6,328
2020	R	−65.1%	988	4,802	5,855
2016	R	−55.4%	999	3,636	4,763
2012	R	−20.6%	1,643	2,516	4,237
2008	R	−12.8%	1,971	2,563	4,632
2004	D	+13.8%	2,789	2,107	4,929
2000	D	+30.8%	2,970	1,553	4,596
1996	D	+37.1%	2,596	1,094	4,047
1992	D	+45.4%	2,997	1,004	4,386
1988	D	+25.6%	2,415	1,429	3,857
1984	D	+29.9%	2,596	1,396	4,015
1980	D	+42.2%	2,837	1,139	4,019
1976	D	+53.7%	2,850	850	3,721
1972	R	−14.3%	1,005	1,364	2,503
1968	D	+19.3%	1,307	618	3,567
1964	D	+60.4%	2,775	686	3,461
1960	D	+45.8%	2,143	786	2,960
1956	D	+38.3%	2,076	918	3,024
1952	D	+56.8%	2,583	709	3,302
1948	D	+61.3%	2,009	431	2,575
1944	D	+56.0%	1,462	406	1,887
1940	D	+70.6%	1,749	298	2,056
1936	D	+72.3%	1,488	238	1,730
1932	D	+65.5%	978	198	1,191
1928	D	+23.0%	608	380	992
1924	D	+28.9%	394	173	764
1920	D	+22.0%	745	447	1,355
1916	D	+36.0%	736	319	1,158
1912	D	+47.4%	529	122	859
1908	D	+32.1%	576	261	981
1904	D	+30.3%	554	264	957
1900	D	+40.5%	852	357	1,222
1896	D	+54.2%	997	286	1,312
1892	D	+51.3%	779	236	1,059
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%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

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: 42.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.5%

2.7%

75–84

3.4%

5.5%

65–74

6.6%

6.9%

55–64

6.8%

6.9%

45–54

6.3%

5.7%

35–44

5.8%

6.0%

25–34

6.0%

3.8%

18–24

3.4%

8.3%

5–17

7.3%

3.3%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$47,593

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

Grundy County$47,593

Tennessee$69,595

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

18.9%

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

15.7%

Baptist

5.6%

Methodist

4.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.8%

Mainline Protestant

1.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 70.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Grundy County, perched atop the Cumberland Plateau, delivered a 69-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest in the state — reflecting a rural, working-class electorate that has shifted decisively over the past two decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Grundy County peaked at seventy-two points in 1936; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2008 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of thirteen points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Grundy County's median household income of $47,593 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Stewart County and Humphreys County.

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For one hundred twelve years, Grundy County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.