Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupAlpine CountyCaliforniaUnited States
Irish11.3%5.9%9.4%
German11.1%6.8%12.5%
English7.4%6.3%9.5%
American6.1%2.8%5.3%
Dutch4.0%——
Italian2.6%3.4%4.8%
Swedish1.4%——
Norwegian1.3%——
Mexican9.2%32.3%11.3%
Colombian1.8%0.3%0.4%
Salvadoran0.7%2.0%0.7%
Spanish0.7%0.3%—
Argentinean0.6%——
Spaniard0.2%0.3%—
Vietnamese1.9%1.7%0.6%
Korean0.2%1.2%0.4%
Japanese0.2%0.6%0.2%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Alpine County
California
United States
Median age
39.8
37.9
39.1
Age 18–24
11.4%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.0%
15.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Alpine County
California
United States
Median household income
$105,521
$99,122
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.0%
12.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
41.1%
36.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Alpine County
California
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
15.9%
44.4%
22.3%
Spanish
9.9%
28.4%
13.6%
Vietnamese
1.9%
1.5%
0.5%
Other languages
3.3%
0.6%
0.8%
Religious landscape
County context
Measure
Alpine County
California
United States
Catholic
19.9%
26.2%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
7.6%
9.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
64.7%
55.2%
51.5%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Alpine County, California
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 738 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Alpine County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -44
149
51
4
204
73.0%
25.0%
D+48.0
Precinct -55
91
89
4
184
49.5%
48.4%
D+1.1
Precinct -11
106
61
5
172
61.6%
35.5%
D+26.2
Precinct -22
81
28
2
111
73.0%
25.2%
D+47.7
Precinct -33
52
14
1
67
77.6%
20.9%
D+56.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1876
−25.7%
1880
−23.4%
1884
−21.7%
1888
−32.5%
1892
−55.8%
1896
−1.2%
1900
−64.3%
1904
−78.3%
1908
−74.4%
1912
+42.5%
1916
−44.6%
1920
−82.9%
1924
−79.7%
1928
−88.5%
1932
+2.7%
1936
+6.9%
1940
−33.5%
1944
−37.1%
1948
−58.7%
1952
−74.3%
1956
−59.4%
1960
−53.5%
1964
−15.3%
1968
−26.5%
1972
−29.7%
1976
−8.1%
1980
−26.2%
1984
−15.0%
1988
−13.8%
1992
−1.1%
1996
−1.0%
2000
−2.7%
2004
+8.8%
2008
+24.5%
2012
+23.4%
2016
+19.4%
2020
+31.1%
2024
+32.0%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
64.9%Harris479
32.9%Trump243
0.9%Kennedy7 +3
D+32.0
D+0.9
D+33.4
738
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic64.9%479
Donald J TrumpRepublican32.9%243
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent0.9%7
Jill SteinIndependent0.7%5
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%2
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.3%2
D
63.8%Biden476
32.7%Trump244
2.0%Jorgensen15
D+31.1
D+11.7
D+26.6
746
D
55.5%Clinton334
36.0%Trump217
4.2%Johnson25
D+19.4
R+4.0
D+17.3
602
D
59.5%Obama389
36.1%Romney236
1.2%Johnson8
D+23.4
R+1.1
D+19.5
654
D
60.8%Obama422
36.3%McCain252
2.9%
D+24.5
D+15.7
D+17.2
694
D
53.2%Kerry373
44.4%Bush311
2.4%
D+8.8
D+11.6
D+11.3
701
R
45.2%Gore265
48.0%Bush281
4.3%Nader25
R+2.7
R+1.8
R+3.2
586
R
42.0%Clinton258
43.0%Dole264
10.3%Perot63
R+1.0
D+0.1
R+9.5
614
R
34.1%Clinton215
35.2%Bush222
29.5%Perot186
R+1.1
D+12.7
R+6.7
631
R
41.7%Dukakis230
55.4%Bush306
2.9%
R+13.8
D+1.3
R+6.0
552
R
41.6%Mondale194
56.7%Reagan264
1.7%
R+15.0
D+11.2
D+3.2
466
R
28.9%Carter133
55.1%Reagan254
16.1%
R+26.2
R+18.2
R+16.5
461
R
42.3%Carter189
50.3%Ford225
7.4%
R+8.1
D+21.6
R+10.1
447
R
33.9%McGovern195
63.5%Nixon366
2.6%
R+29.7
R+3.2
R+6.5
576
R
32.8%Humphrey83
59.3%Nixon150
7.9%
R+26.5
R+11.1
R+25.8
253
R
42.3%Johnson91
57.7%Goldwater124
0.0%
R+15.3
D+38.1
R+37.9
215
R
23.3%Kennedy40
76.7%Nixon132
0.0%
R+53.5
D+6.0
R+53.7
172
R
20.3%Stevenson29
79.7%Eisenhower114
0.0%
R+59.4
D+14.9
R+44.0
143
R
12.8%Stevenson19
87.2%Eisenhower129
0.0%
R+74.3
R+15.6
R+63.6
148
R
18.1%Truman25
76.8%Dewey106
5.1%
R+58.7
R+21.6
R+63.2
138
R
31.5%Roosevelt45
68.5%Dewey98
0.0%
R+37.1
R+3.6
R+44.6
143
R
33.0%Roosevelt62
66.5%Willkie125
0.5%
R+33.5
R+40.4
R+43.5
188
D
53.5%Roosevelt85
46.5%Landon74
0.0%
D+6.9
D+4.2
R+17.3
159
D
50.0%Roosevelt56
47.3%Hoover53
2.7%
D+2.7
D+91.1
R+15.1
112
R
5.8%Smith3
94.2%Hoover49
0.0%
R+88.5
R+8.8
R+71.0
52
R
8.5%Davis5
88.1%Coolidge52
3.4%
R+79.7
D+3.2
R+54.5
59
R
8.6%Cox6
91.4%Harding64
0.0%
R+82.9
R+38.3
R+56.7
70
R
27.7%Wilson23
72.3%Hughes60
0.0%
R+44.6
R+87.1
R+47.7
83
O
42.5%Wilson34
0.0%Taft0
57.5%
Roosevelt +15.0
D+116.9
D+23.0
80
R
12.8%Bryan11
87.2%Taft75
0.0%
R+74.4
D+3.9
R+64.9
86
R
10.8%Parker9
89.2%Roosevelt74
0.0%
R+78.3
R+14.0
R+58.6
83
R
17.9%Bryan15
82.1%McKinley69
0.0%
R+64.3
R+63.1
R+56.7
84
R
48.1%Bryan39
49.4%McKinley40
2.5%
R+1.2
D+54.6
D+4.8
81
R
19.8%Cleveland17
75.6%Harrison65
4.7%
R+55.8
R+23.3
R+57.5
86
R
33.8%Cleveland27
66.3%Harrison53
0.0%
R+32.5
R+10.8
—
80
R
39.1%Cleveland36
60.9%Blaine56
0.0%
R+21.7
D+1.6
—
92
R
38.3%Hancock41
61.7%Garfield66
0.0%
R+23.4
D+2.3
—
107
R
37.1%Tilden65
62.9%Hayes110
0.0%
R+25.7
—
—
175
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
63.1%915
36.9%534
1,449
2018
D
100.0%547
0.0%0
547
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+19.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+32.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 12 points more Republican.
948 registered voters · 2024 · up from 928 in 2022
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−33 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −95 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $96,591 in average income, against $99,789 for residents who stayed — 3% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Alpine County, CA in Alpine County, CA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−65
2012
+17
2013
+17
2014
−46
2015
+1
2016
−26
2017
+66
2018
−23
2019
+35
2021
+48
2022
−35
2023
−37
2024
−14
2025
−33
Alpine County sits in the Sierra Nevada with fewer than 1,500 residents, yet it has posted Democratic presidential margins exceeding 30 points — a lopsided result driven by a small, cohesive electorate in one of the most sparsely settled jurisdictions in the continental U.S.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 88.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 0.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.0 points.
A population of 1,616, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $105,521 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mono County and Summit County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Alpine County, California voted Democratic by 32.0 points (D+32.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 738 votes cast, 479 went Democratic and 243 went Republican.
When did Alpine County, California last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Alpine County, California voted Republican was 2000.
How many people live in Alpine County, California?
Alpine County, California has a population of 1,616 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Alpine County, California?
Median household income in Alpine County, California is $105,521 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Alpine County, California?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Alpine County, California from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
