Lee County, Texas
Lee County | |
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Congressional district | 10th |
Website | www |
Lee County is a
Geography
According to the
Major highways
- U.S. Highway 77
- U.S. Highway 290
- State Highway 21
Adjacent counties
- Milam County (north)
- Burleson County (northeast)
- Washington County (east)
- Fayette County (southeast)
- Bastrop County (southwest)
- Williamson County (northwest)
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
---|---|---|---|
1880 | 8,937 | — | |
1890 | 11,952 | 33.7% | |
1900 | 14,595 | 22.1% | |
1910 | 13,132 | −10.0% | |
1920 | 14,014 | 6.7% | |
1930 | 13,390 | −4.5% | |
1940 | 12,751 | −4.8% | |
1950 | 10,144 | −20.4% | |
1960 | 8,949 | −11.8% | |
1970 | 8,048 | −10.1% | |
1980 | 10,952 | 36.1% | |
1990 | 12,854 | 17.4% | |
2000 | 15,657 | 21.8% | |
2010 | 16,612 | 6.1% | |
2020 | 17,478 | 5.2% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[4] 1850–2010[5] 2010[6] 2020[7] |
Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2010[6] | Pop 2020[7] | % 2010 | % 2020 |
---|---|---|---|---|
White alone (NH)
|
10,798 | 10,612 | 65.00% | 60.72% |
Black or African American alone (NH)
|
1,772 | 1,631 | 10.67% | 9.33% |
Alaska Native alone (NH)
|
44 | 47 | 0.26% | 0.27% |
Asian alone (NH) | 52 | 57 | 0.31% | 0.33% |
Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 17 | 1 | 0.10% | 0.01% |
Some other race alone (NH) | 7 | 37 | 0.04% | 0.21% |
Mixed/multiracial (NH) | 198 | 614 | 1.19% | 3.51% |
Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3,724 | 4,479 | 22.42% | 25.63% |
Total | 16,612 | 17,478 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
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 can be of any race.
As of the
Politics
Lee County was historically Democratic, although less so than the majority of Texas, as it was somewhat allied with the isolated Republican German-American Unionist stronghold centered in Gillespie and Kendall Counties. It nonetheless voted Democratic in every election up to 1976 except the landslide Republican triumphs of 1956 and 1972, plus the heavily war-influenced elections of 1916 and 1940, when its German-American population was suspicious of the Democratic Party's position towards Germany. Since 1980, like all of the rural white South, Lee County has become powerfully Republican. No Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority in the county since Jimmy Carter in 1976, although during the drought- and farm crisis-dominated 1988 election Michael Dukakis won a 14-vote plurality. In the past five elections, the GOP candidate has always passed two-thirds of the county's vote and Donald Trump exceeded three-quarters in 2016 & 2020.
Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party | |||
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
2020 | 6,255 | 77.22% | 1,750 | 21.60% | 95 | 1.17% |
2016 | 4,997 | 76.20% | 1,372 | 20.92% | 189 | 2.88% |
2012 | 4,507 | 72.27% | 1,632 | 26.17% | 97 | 1.56% |
2008 | 4,312 | 67.62% | 2,000 | 31.36% | 65 | 1.02% |
2004 | 4,160 | 68.33% | 1,899 | 31.19% | 29 | 0.48% |
2000 | 3,699 | 66.82% | 1,733 | 31.30% | 104 | 1.88% |
1996 | 2,354 | 49.00% | 2,008 | 41.80% | 442 | 9.20% |
1992 | 2,108 | 41.68% | 1,847 | 36.52% | 1,103 | 21.81% |
1988 | 2,513 | 49.60% | 2,527 | 49.87% | 27 | 0.53% |
1984 | 2,967 | 64.05% | 1,659 | 35.82% | 6 | 0.13% |
1980 | 1,803 | 52.08% | 1,581 | 45.67% | 78 | 2.25% |
1976 | 1,348 | 40.81% | 1,937 | 58.64% | 18 | 0.54% |
1972 | 1,877 | 66.70% | 920 | 32.69% | 17 | 0.60% |
1968 | 1,075 | 35.97% | 1,283 | 42.92% | 631 | 21.11% |
1964 | 923 | 32.86% | 1,884 | 67.07% | 2 | 0.07% |
1960 | 1,048 | 42.76% | 1,369 | 55.85% | 34 | 1.39% |
1956 | 1,200 | 52.77% | 1,061 | 46.66% | 13 | 0.57% |
1952 | 1,316 | 48.61% | 1,389 | 51.31% | 2 | 0.07% |
1948 | 465 | 21.91% | 1,540 | 72.57% | 117 | 5.51% |
1944 | 771 | 35.11% | 953 | 43.40% | 472 | 21.49% |
1940 | 1,150 | 54.61% | 954 | 45.30% | 2 | 0.09% |
1936 | 271 | 18.99% | 1,155 | 80.94% | 1 | 0.07% |
1932 | 110 | 5.67% | 1,831 | 94.33% | 0 | 0.00% |
1928 | 449 | 27.63% | 1,176 | 72.37% | 0 | 0.00% |
1924 | 271 | 11.87% | 1,561 | 68.35% | 452 | 19.79% |
1920 | 325 | 14.65% | 712 | 32.09% | 1,182 | 53.27% |
1916 | 836 | 56.11% | 571 | 38.32% | 83 | 5.57% |
1912 | 134 | 13.58% | 687 | 69.60% | 166 | 16.82% |
Government and infrastructure
The Texas Youth Commission operates the Giddings State School in unincorporated Lee County, near Giddings.[11] As of 2004[update], the Giddings State School was Lee County's largest employer.[12]
Communities
City
- Giddings (county seat)
Town
Unincorporated communities
Education
School districts:[13]
- Dime Box Independent School District
- Elgin Independent School District
- Giddings Independent School District
- Lexington Independent School District
Most of Lee County is assigned to
See also
- List of memorials to Robert E. Lee
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County, Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Lee County
References
- ^ "Lee County, Texas". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
- US Census Bureau.
- ^ "Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010" (PDF). Texas Almanac. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
- ^ a b "P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race - 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Lee County, Texas". United States Census Bureau.
- ^ a b "P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Lee County, Texas". United States Census Bureau.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ^ Patterson, Thom (July 15, 2011). "Welcome to Little America: Lee County, Texas". CNN. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
- ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- ^ "Giddings State School". Texas Youth Commission. Archived from the original on February 20, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
- ^ "Disruption at the Giddings State School". Texas Youth Commission. October 5, 2004. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
- ^ Texas Education Code, Sec. 130.166. Austin Community College District Service Area. Sec. 130.168. Blinn Junior College District Service Area.
External links
- Lee County
- Lee County from the Handbook of Texas Online