Wayne County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 13,561 votes cast

Trump · R+60

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−59.8%	2,708	10,811	13,561
2020	R	−57.1%	2,687	9,987	12,778
2016	R	−58.5%	2,041	8,153	10,440
2012	R	−48.2%	2,596	7,557	10,288
2008	R	−44.9%	2,858	7,601	10,560
2004	R	−43.3%	2,683	6,819	9,562
2000	R	−31.0%	2,736	5,219	8,004
1996	R	−13.7%	2,734	3,709	7,126
1992	R	−4.4%	3,052	3,381	7,552
1988	R	−16.0%	2,417	3,340	5,766
1984	R	−20.6%	2,434	3,698	6,132
1980	D	+26.5%	3,843	2,213	6,157
1976	D	+49.9%	4,489	1,499	5,988
1972	R	−66.8%	733	3,677	4,410
1968	R	−5.8%	980	1,313	5,715
1964	R	−24.8%	2,182	3,619	5,801
1960	D	+34.8%	2,862	1,384	4,246
1956	D	+37.4%	2,084	950	3,034
1952	D	+39.7%	1,929	832	2,761
1948	D	+62.0%	1,277	190	1,752
1944	D	+59.0%	978	252	1,230
1940	D	+79.0%	1,542	179	1,725
1936	D	+76.0%	788	105	899
1932	D	+88.6%	1,044	60	1,111
1928	D	+8.3%	488	413	901
1924	D	+74.8%	409	33	503
1920	D	+88.4%	407	25	432
1916	D	+83.9%	460	29	514
1912	D	+86.5%	380	14	423
1908	D	+41.5%	394	144	603
1904	D	+58.1%	417	89	565
1900	D	+24.8%	363	213	605
1896	D	+27.3%	477	266	772
1892	D	+54.6%	488	58	787
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

15.8%

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: 38.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

0.7%

1.9%

75–84

2.9%

4.7%

65–74

5.2%

6.0%

55–64

6.5%

6.7%

45–54

5.9%

7.3%

35–44

6.5%

7.2%

25–34

5.2%

4.1%

18–24

4.4%

8.6%

5–17

9.4%

2.5%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,427

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

Wayne County$53,427

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

21.3%

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

33.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

14.0%

Other Christian

11.8%

Methodist

3.6%

Non-Christian

1.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.0%

Mainline Protestant

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Wayne County, anchored by the small city of Jesup, sits in the coastal plain of southeast Georgia and has shifted steadily toward supermajority Republican margins over the past two decades, reflecting broader rural realignment across the state's non-metro counties.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Wayne County peaked at eighty-nine points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty-one points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Wayne County's median household income of $53,427 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cherokee County and Stephens County.

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