Crawford County, Arkansas

2024 results by precinct

13 precincts · 23,834 votes cast

Trump · R+58

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−58.2%	4,753	18,615	23,834
2020	R	−56.7%	4,959	18,607	24,091
2016	R	−56.1%	4,488	16,686	21,755
2012	R	−49.8%	4,881	15,145	20,591
2008	R	−46.0%	5,238	14,688	20,532
2004	R	−32.5%	6,764	13,391	20,401
2000	R	−25.6%	6,288	10,804	17,625
1996	R	−2.7%	6,749	7,182	15,814
1992	R	−1.4%	6,656	6,882	16,165
1988	R	−42.9%	3,582	9,092	12,832
1984	R	−51.0%	3,071	9,551	12,701
1980	R	−35.6%	3,948	8,542	12,899
1976	D	+11.0%	5,946	4,764	10,710
1972	R	−63.7%	1,520	6,974	8,566
1968	R	−15.9%	1,578	2,723	7,218
1964	D	+3.5%	3,537	3,294	6,852
1960	R	−16.0%	2,430	3,373	5,907
1956	R	−6.3%	2,723	3,090	5,843
1952	R	−5.8%	2,477	2,782	5,269
1948	D	+24.7%	1,730	1,002	2,952
1944	D	+19.6%	1,702	1,141	2,862
1940	D	+38.4%	1,581	691	2,318
1936	D	+47.4%	1,963	697	2,672
1932	D	+56.3%	2,962	809	3,824
1928	D	+5.6%	1,743	1,559	3,302
1924	D	+15.4%	1,445	996	2,910
1920	D	+10.7%	1,861	1,497	3,398
1916	D	+15.2%	1,622	1,195	2,817
1912	D	+29.9%	969	407	1,880
1908	D	+10.5%	1,661	1,339	3,079
1904	R	−3.5%	875	941	1,883
1900	D	+15.3%	1,449	1,060	2,537
1896	D	+17.5%	1,870	1,311	3,199
1892	D	+14.9%	1,545	1,099	2,992
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

1.0%

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: 39.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

0.9%

2.5%

75–84

3.3%

5.0%

65–74

5.5%

6.7%

55–64

6.6%

6.0%

45–54

5.8%

6.1%

35–44

6.7%

6.5%

25–34

6.0%

4.0%

18–24

3.9%

9.0%

5–17

9.0%

2.9%

3.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$64,132

Crawford County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Crawford County$64,132

Arkansas$60,773

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.7%

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

25.4%

Other Christian

14.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

5.5%

Methodist

4.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

3.5%

Mainline Protestant

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Crawford County, anchored by Van Buren along the Oklahoma border, recorded an R+58.2 presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deeply conservative realignment that has reshaped rural, working-class corners of the Arkansas River Valley over the past two decades.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Crawford County, by a thirty-six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-four points in 1972. The 2024 margin was fifty-eight points.

The political shift has tracked, in Crawford County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 81% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $64,132, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pope County and Taylor County.

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