Hyde County, North Carolina

2024 results by precinct

7 precincts · 2,421 votes cast

Trump · R+22

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−22.1%	931	1,465	2,421
2020	R	−14.9%	1,046	1,418	2,492
2016	R	−14.0%	965	1,288	2,304
2012	R	−1.3%	1,163	1,193	2,383
2008	D	+1.2%	1,241	1,212	2,469
2004	R	−8.2%	1,048	1,235	2,293
2000	D	+2.0%	1,132	1,088	2,237
1996	D	+16.0%	1,109	782	2,042
1992	D	+20.4%	1,206	740	2,288
1988	D	+16.6%	1,316	940	2,264
1984	R	−8.7%	1,004	1,195	2,202
1980	D	+20.0%	1,221	807	2,072
1976	D	+26.8%	1,084	623	1,717
1972	R	−45.9%	403	1,112	1,545
1968	D	+18.4%	769	401	2,003
1964	D	+37.4%	1,127	514	1,641
1960	D	+40.9%	1,147	481	1,628
1956	D	+35.4%	1,028	491	1,519
1952	D	+38.7%	919	406	1,325
1948	D	+55.7%	800	214	1,052
1944	D	+48.2%	924	323	1,247
1940	D	+59.1%	1,202	309	1,511
1936	D	+58.6%	1,157	302	1,459
1932	D	+75.2%	1,050	147	1,201
1928	R	−7.2%	590	682	1,272
1924	D	+35.7%	653	305	974
1920	D	+36.3%	1,134	530	1,664
1916	D	+50.1%	840	277	1,124
1912	D	+55.3%	636	76	1,012
1908	D	+49.6%	662	223	885
1904	D	+31.8%	614	318	932
1900	D	+4.1%	867	798	1,667
1896	D	+9.2%	1,019	847	1,868
1892	D	+26.1%	858	430	1,637
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

19.7%

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: 47.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

0.0%

2.4%

75–84

2.7%

6.6%

65–74

7.7%

8.4%

55–64

8.6%

12.2%

45–54

6.5%

10.1%

35–44

4.3%

5.2%

25–34

4.2%

1.4%

18–24

1.6%

6.8%

5–17

7.5%

3.1%

0.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,713

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

Hyde County$53,713

North Carolina$72,388

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

22.2%

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

Methodist

11.4%

Other Christian

7.1%

Mainline Protestant

5.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 73.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Hyde is one of North Carolina's least populous counties, with much of its land sitting below sea level in the Pamlico and Pungo river lowlands. It has shifted toward Republican margins over the past two decades as its small, rural electorate consolidated.

The shift began with civil rights. 2012 marked the realignment in Hyde County, by a one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-six points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Hyde County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $53,713, and a 22% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Caswell County and Moody County.

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