Taylor County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

3 precincts · 3,982 votes cast

Trump · R+31

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−31.0%	1,366	2,600	3,982
2020	R	−26.9%	1,387	2,418	3,839
2016	R	−22.5%	1,296	2,064	3,408
2012	R	−10.6%	1,572	1,948	3,540
2008	R	−13.5%	1,536	2,021	3,583
2004	R	−13.4%	1,458	1,912	3,383
2000	R	−2.6%	1,340	1,412	2,780
1996	D	+16.9%	1,450	1,002	2,653
1992	D	+15.0%	1,508	1,078	2,872
1988	R	−0.5%	1,134	1,145	2,284
1984	D	+1.8%	1,340	1,292	2,632
1980	D	+38.2%	1,845	815	2,698
1976	D	+59.1%	1,962	504	2,466
1972	R	−50.9%	514	1,580	2,094
1968	D	+11.0%	691	393	2,710
1964	R	−11.1%	1,097	1,372	2,470
1960	D	+53.4%	1,201	365	1,566
1956	D	+66.2%	1,359	276	1,635
1952	D	+71.7%	1,679	277	1,956
1948	D	+49.0%	638	99	1,101
1944	D	+48.4%	773	269	1,042
1940	D	+57.7%	796	213	1,011
1936	D	+67.8%	771	147	921
1932	D	+87.6%	685	44	732
1928	D	+25.1%	590	353	943
1924	D	+56.4%	370	96	486
1920	D	+39.9%	491	211	702
1916	D	+60.5%	405	57	575
1912	D	+71.1%	342	17	457
1908	D	+16.3%	253	159	575
1904	D	+45.2%	309	63	544
1900	D	+56.3%	298	79	389
1896	R	−12.5%	237	309	578
1892	D	+2.5%	471	439	1,302
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

30.2%

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: 44.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.4%

85+

1.2%

2.1%

75–84

4.5%

6.0%

65–74

6.8%

7.2%

55–64

7.9%

6.3%

45–54

6.6%

6.5%

35–44

5.4%

5.3%

25–34

6.4%

2.9%

18–24

3.9%

8.3%

5–17

6.5%

2.9%

2.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$41,788

Taylor County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Taylor County$41,788

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

32.1%

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

31.9%

Methodist

7.1%

Other Christian

3.8%

Non-Christian

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Taylor County's small, agriculture-rooted population has shifted toward lopsided Republican margins over the past two decades, with the 2024 presidential result landing at R+31 — typical of Georgia's rural Black Belt periphery.

The Democratic margin in Taylor County peaked at eighty-eight points in 1932. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-one points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Taylor County's median household income of $41,788 sits well below state and national norms, and 32% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Telfair County and Ben Hill County.

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Taylor County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.