Demographics
Historical population| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 1880 | 104 | | — |
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| 1890 | 1,024 | | 884.6% |
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| 1900 | 2,183 | | 113.2% |
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| 1910 | 5,320 | | 143.7% |
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| 1920 | 4,086 | | −23.2% |
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| 1930 | 5,667 | | 38.7% |
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| 1940 | 5,589 | | −1.4% |
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| 1950 | 3,679 | | −34.2% |
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| 1960 | 3,017 | | −18.0% |
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| 1970 | 2,397 | | −20.6% |
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| 1980 | 2,406 | | 0.4% |
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| 1990 | 2,013 | | −16.3% |
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| 2000 | 1,693 | | −15.9% |
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| 2010 | 1,490 | | −12.0% |
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| 2020 | 1,245 | | −16.4% |
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Stonewall County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.| Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) | Pop 2010 [11] | Pop 2020 [12] | % 2010 | % 2020 |
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| White alone (NH) | 1,206 | 958 | 80.94% | 76.95% |
| Black or African American alone (NH) | 38 | 18 | 2.55% | 1.45% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) | 4 | 3 | 0.27% | 0.24% |
| Asian alone (NH) | 14 | 5 | 0.94% | 0.40% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Other race alone (NH) | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | 0.16% |
| Mixed or multiracial (NH) | 19 | 33 | 1.28% | 2.65% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 209 | 226 | 14.03% | 18.15% |
| Total | 1,490 | 1,245 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
As of the 2010 census, [13] 1,490 people, 642 households, and 426 families resided in the county. The population density was 2.0 people per square mile (0.77 people/km2). The 928 housing units averaged 1 unit per square mile (0.39 units/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 87.7% White, 2.6% Black or African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 6.3% from other races, and 1.9% from two or more races. About 14.0% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 642 households, 24% had children under 18 living with them, 53% were married couples living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were not families; 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.83.
In the county, the population was distributed as 22.8% under 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 24.0% who were 65 or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 91.1 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $27,935, and for a family was $35,571. Males had a median income of $27,083 versus $15,000 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,094. About 14.80% of families and 19.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.50% of those under 18 and 14.50% of those 65 or over.
Politics
Whereas the counties to its north in the Panhandle proper became overwhelmingly Republican at the presidential level with Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s, Stonewall County continued to favor the Democratic Party for another four decades, even being narrowly won by Walter Mondale in 1984 when he came within 3,819 votes of losing all fifty states. During the twentieth century the only Republican to carry Stonewall County was Richard Nixon in 1972 – it was one of the few Baptist Bible Belt counties that stayed loyal to the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith in 1928 when Texas voted Republican for the first time in its history.
Like the rest of the Bible Belt, due to opposition to the Democratic Party's liberal positions on social issues Stonewall County has trended powerfully Republican [15] and in the last five elections the Republican nominee has won more than 62 percent of the vote – more than Nixon won in his 3,000-plus-county landslide in 1972.
Republican Drew Springer, Jr., a businessman from Muenster in Cooke County, represented Stonewall County in the Texas House of Representatives from January 2013, and as of January 2021, represents District 30 in the Texas Senate. [16]
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