Coffee County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

27 precincts · 22,319 votes cast

Trump · R+58

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−57.8%	4,601	17,495	22,319
2020	R	−53.1%	5,076	16,899	22,275
2016	R	−56.9%	4,221	15,875	20,492
2012	R	−49.3%	4,925	14,666	19,770
2008	R	−48.9%	5,079	14,919	20,128
2004	R	−48.5%	4,480	13,019	17,616
2000	R	−30.6%	5,220	9,938	15,434
1996	R	−18.6%	5,168	7,805	14,159
1992	R	−11.7%	5,776	7,591	15,533
1988	R	−34.2%	4,319	8,890	13,355
1984	R	−40.9%	4,370	10,558	15,118
1980	R	−4.6%	6,140	6,760	13,399
1976	D	+25.0%	7,844	4,683	12,651
1972	R	−61.0%	2,160	9,076	11,336
1968	D	+3.6%	1,071	682	10,766
1964	R	−80.2%	0	4,910	6,123
1960	D	+52.7%	4,470	1,381	5,867
1956	D	+60.6%	4,163	973	5,268
1952	D	+69.7%	3,919	699	4,620
1948	R	−5.3%	0	113	2,152
1944	D	+92.1%	2,846	115	2,964
1940	D	+87.8%	2,226	145	2,371
1936	D	+92.8%	3,178	110	3,305
1932	D	+93.5%	2,868	95	2,965
1928	D	+21.7%	1,609	1,036	2,645
1924	D	+65.5%	1,597	323	1,945
1920	D	+43.5%	1,721	673	2,408
1916	D	+64.7%	2,029	426	2,476
1912	D	+66.9%	1,277	68	1,807
1908	D	+51.1%	1,305	341	1,886
1904	D	+51.2%	1,106	226	1,719
1900	D	+29.3%	998	535	1,582
1896	D	+81.9%	1,494	114	1,684
1892	D	+48.6%	992	47	1,943
1888	D	+98.8%	1,124	7	1,131
1884	D	+91.5%	875	39	914
1880	D	+84.8%	764	63	827
1876	D	+94.2%	835	25	860

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

13.0%

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: 39.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

0.9%

2.4%

75–84

3.2%

4.8%

65–74

5.5%

6.0%

55–64

6.1%

6.5%

45–54

6.3%

7.1%

35–44

6.6%

5.9%

25–34

6.2%

4.2%

18–24

3.7%

9.3%

5–17

8.8%

3.1%

3.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$68,353

Coffee County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Coffee County$68,353

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.7%

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

42.5%

Other Christian

11.4%

Methodist

6.4%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.8%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 30.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Coffee County, anchored by Enterprise and Elba in the wiregrass region, has delivered Republican presidential margins above 50 points in recent cycles, reflecting the deeply conservative voting patterns common across rural southeast Alabama.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Coffee County peaked at ninety-nine points in 1888; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1980 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of five points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Coffee County's median household income of $68,353 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of White County and Harris County.

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