Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska: New American county. In 2024, voted D+19%. Democratic peak: D+40 in 1964.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 5272024 5-year
- Median household income
- $85,0002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 25.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+40 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31 in 1988MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Olmsted County, MN · similarity 0.95
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Yakutat City and BoroughPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Yakutat City and Borough, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | No data |
| 1916 | No data |
| 1920 | No data |
| 1924 | No data |
| 1928 | No data |
| 1932 | No data |
| 1936 | No data |
| 1940 | No data |
| 1944 | No data |
| 1948 | No data |
| 1952 | No data |
| 1956 | No data |
| 1960 | −11.6% |
| 1964 | +39.9% |
| 1968 | +12.1% |
| 1972 | −19.7% |
| 1976 | +5.7% |
| 1980 | −17.1% |
| 1984 | −23.7% |
| 1988 | −31.2% |
| 1992 | −6.8% |
| 1996 | +8.8% |
| 2000 | −16.7% |
| 2004 | −8.7% |
| 2008 | +4.6% |
| 2012 | +16.1% |
| 2016 | +0.5% |
| 2020 | +23.1% |
| 2024 | +18.8% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
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| D | 239 | 159 | 426 | ||
| D | 249 | 150 | 428 | ||
| D | 615 | 608 | 1,396 | ||
| D | 170 | 121 | 304 | ||
| D | 188 | 171 | 373 | ||
| R | 146 | 175 | 332 | ||
| R | 118 | 177 | 354 | ||
| D | 148 | 120 | 320 | ||
| R | 108 | 130 | 322 | ||
| R | 80 | 159 | 253 | ||
| R | 96 | 160 | 270 | ||
| R | 76 | 116 | 234 | ||
| D | 89 | 79 | 175 | ||
| R | 58 | 88 | 152 | ||
| D | 102 | 78 | 199 | ||
| D | 494 | 212 | 706 | ||
| R | 285 | 360 | 646 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
Irish
4.4%
German
3.6%
French
1.5%
Scottish
1.5%
English
0.8%
Polish
0.8%
African American
3.8%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 43.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$85,000
Yakutat City and Borough ranks in the top 25% of US counties.
Yakutat City and Borough$85,000
Alaska$92,788
United States$80,734
Yakutat City and Borough ranks in the top 25% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
11.9%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1820.3%
Working age (18–64)11.8%
Seniors (65+)0.0%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
73.0%
speak English only
Other Indo-European9.1%
Spanish8.1%
Asian & Pacific Islander6.5%
Other languages3.3%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Yakutat's 808 residents—many of them Tlingit Alaska Natives—make it one of the least populous jurisdictions in the country, yet its coastal subsistence economy and Indigenous majority consistently produce Democratic margins unusual for rural Alaska.
Yakutat City and Borough has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of forty points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved four points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 25% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $85,000, and a population of 527. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Olmsted County and East Baton Rouge Parish.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska vote in 2024?
In 2024, Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska voted Democratic by 18.8 points (D+19), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 426 votes cast, 239 went Democratic and 159 went Republican.
What is Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska's political typology?
Akashic places Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 9 times, Republican 8 times, and other 0 times.
When did Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska?
Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska has a population of 527 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska?
Median household income in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska is $85,000 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 8 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.