Mason County, Texas

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 2,529 votes cast

Trump · R+65

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−64.9%	434	2,076	2,529
2020	R	−62.0%	457	1,991	2,474
2016	R	−63.3%	354	1,656	2,057
2012	R	−60.2%	380	1,565	1,968
2008	R	−47.1%	546	1,544	2,121
2004	R	−54.9%	459	1,600	2,077
2000	R	−51.9%	417	1,352	1,801
1996	R	−19.1%	618	949	1,735
1992	R	−12.0%	570	776	1,722
1988	R	−18.4%	671	975	1,655
1984	R	−34.3%	570	1,168	1,743
1980	R	−20.7%	630	966	1,621
1976	D	+0.5%	814	805	1,640
1972	R	−48.9%	369	1,096	1,487
1968	R	−15.1%	560	789	1,518
1964	D	+22.9%	941	590	1,535
1960	R	−18.2%	575	833	1,417
1956	R	−27.4%	504	885	1,390
1952	R	−27.6%	606	1,069	1,678
1948	D	+24.9%	836	498	1,356
1944	D	+26.9%	822	420	1,496
1940	D	+25.3%	1,065	634	1,702
1936	D	+37.3%	787	359	1,147
1932	D	+45.5%	828	309	1,141
1928	R	−53.5%	244	807	1,053
1924	D	+29.7%	384	171	718
1920	D	+5.2%	304	269	673
1916	D	+39.8%	386	157	575
1912	D	+36.2%	472	152	885
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
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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: 52.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

2.6%

85+

3.7%

5.9%

75–84

4.1%

7.2%

65–74

11.7%

7.1%

55–64

6.6%

3.8%

45–54

3.8%

5.7%

35–44

7.3%

3.7%

25–34

1.7%

3.9%

18–24

2.0%

8.0%

5–17

5.5%

3.3%

2.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$74,180

Mason County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Mason County$74,180

Texas$78,476

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

7.0%

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

22.0%

Methodist

19.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

17.5%

Mainline Protestant

11.4%

Baptist

7.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 21.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Mason County's sparse ranch land and aging rural population have produced Republican presidential margins exceeding 60 points in recent cycles, making it a textbook example of deep-red small-county consolidation in the Texas Hill Country.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Mason County, by a twenty-one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-five points in 2024. The 2024 margin was sixty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Mason County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 85% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $74,180, and a 7% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fayette County and Lampasas County.

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