Retiring Guy's Digest: Population loss in Texas: Coke County/Robert Lee

Friday, September 27, 2019

Population loss in Texas: Coke County/Robert Lee

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Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.

Source: Wikipedia (Coke County, Robert Lee)

Robert Lee is the county seat of Coke County.

Population loss by degrees: 80-90%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:

20.6% - Coke County
28.7% - Texas
30.9% - U.S.

Percentage of population 65 and older:

27.3% - Coke County
12.8% - Texas
15.6% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

13.3% - Coke County
14.7% - Texas
12.3% - U.S.

The last time Coke County voted for a Democratic candidate for president was 1980. Trump received 88.9% of the vote in 2016, the highest for any GOP presidential candidate.

Cook County Library, Robert Lee

Related reading:

Small Towns Wrestle With Lengths They’ll Go for Water. (The New York Times, 10/5/2014)

Mayor John Jacobs of Robert Lee, a city in Coke County, one of the 13 counties that would get water under the V. V. Water proposal, says the region needs the pipeline. He is uncertain just how long his city, which about 1,000 people call home, will have water.

For more than five years, the city has been under water restrictions. It pipes in water from a town 11 miles to the east, but officials know it is only a matter of time before that water runs out.