 About 6.3% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.8% of those under age 18 and 12.5% of those age 65 or over.More recently in Beadle County's history, They have gradually became more Republican.In the 1990s, they had a streak of voting democratic, But this ended when George W. Bush won the county in the election of 2000.