Clear Creek County, Colorado: Realigning Affluent Suburb county. In 2024, voted D+17%. Democratic peak: D+94 in 1896.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- Realigning Affluent SuburbAkashic typology
- Population
- 9,2622024 5-year
- Median household income
- $94,5772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Routt County, CO · similarity 0.96
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Clear Creek CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Clear Creek County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Margin—
Turnout—
Harris +50Trump +50
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 | −23.2% |
| 1884 | −20.5% |
| 1888 | −26.7% |
| 1892 | −22.1% |
| 1896 | +93.9% |
| 1900 | +49.6% |
| 1904 | −14.6% |
| 1908 | +31.8% |
| 1912 | +35.4% |
| 1916 | +45.3% |
| 1920 | −18.8% |
| 1924 | −37.5% |
| 1928 | −23.9% |
| 1932 | +21.9% |
| 1936 | +29.9% |
| 1940 | +11.4% |
| 1944 | −11.1% |
| 1948 | −1.6% |
| 1952 | −35.8% |
| 1956 | −30.2% |
| 1960 | −16.7% |
| 1964 | +23.2% |
| 1968 | −15.2% |
| 1972 | −29.7% |
| 1976 | −15.3% |
| 1980 | −29.8% |
| 1984 | −32.3% |
| 1988 | −3.4% |
| 1992 | +8.7% |
| 1996 | +2.8% |
| 2000 | −1.2% |
| 2004 | +8.3% |
| 2008 | +17.9% |
| 2012 | +12.0% |
| 2016 | +2.6% |
| 2020 | +13.0% |
| 2024 | +16.6% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 3,464 | 2,452 | 6,102 | ||
| D | 3,603 | 2,753 | 6,545 | ||
| D | 2,729 | 2,575 | 5,866 | ||
| D | 3,119 | 2,430 | 5,743 | ||
| D | 3,332 | 2,300 | 5,767 | ||
| D | 2,989 | 2,522 | 5,613 | ||
| R | 2,188 | 2,247 | 4,924 | ||
| D | 1,863 | 1,746 | 4,160 | ||
| D | 1,744 | 1,356 | 4,460 | ||
| R | 1,698 | 1,820 | 3,632 | ||
| R | 1,089 | 2,151 | 3,292 | ||
| R | 837 | 1,784 | 3,173 | ||
| R | 1,069 | 1,477 | 2,668 | ||
| R | 815 | 1,557 | 2,502 | ||
| R | 719 | 1,011 | 1,918 | ||
| D | 1,086 | 676 | 1,767 | ||
| R | 688 | 964 | 1,652 | ||
| R | 520 | 973 | 1,500 | ||
| R | 540 | 1,145 | 1,691 | ||
| R | 810 | 836 | 1,664 | ||
| R | 636 | 795 | 1,438 | ||
| D | 1,281 | 1,018 | 2,306 | ||
| D | 1,340 | 720 | 2,076 | ||
| D | 939 | 597 | 1,564 | ||
| R | 481 | 790 | 1,294 | ||
| R | 284 | 722 | 1,167 | ||
| R | 518 | 765 | 1,312 | ||
| D | 1,289 | 474 | 1,799 | ||
| D | 1,166 | 469 | 1,968 | ||
| D | 1,702 | 872 | 2,608 | ||
| R | 1,252 | 1,691 | 3,008 | ||
| D | 2,309 | 761 | 3,122 | ||
| D | 3,345 | 101 | 3,454 | ||
| O | 0 | 494 | 2,235 | ||
| R | 696 | 1,244 | 2,052 | ||
| R | 915 | 1,399 | 2,357 | ||
| R | 961 | 1,567 | 2,611 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
22.4%
English
18.3%
Irish
17.7%
Italian
4.9%
American
4.3%
Scottish
3.3%
Polish
2.8%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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: 49.1 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
$94,577
Clear Creek County ranks in the top 5% of US counties.
Clear Creek County$94,577
Colorado$95,470
United States$80,734
Clear Creek County ranks in the top 5% 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
6.4%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 186.0%
Working age (18–64)6.7%
Seniors (65+)3.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
93.9%
speak English only
Spanish4.7%
Other Indo-European0.7%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.5%
Other languages0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 93.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Despite its small size and rugged Front Range terrain, Clear Creek has voted Democratic by double digits in recent cycles, a pattern more common to college towns than to rural mining-heritage counties of its type.
Once reliably Republican — a margin of thirty-eight points in 1924 at its widest — Clear Creek County has trended Democratic. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved four points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was seventeen points.
A median household income of $94,577 — among the higher at this geographic scale — and a population of 9,262 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Routt County and Gunnison County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Clear Creek County, Colorado vote in 2024?
In 2024, Clear Creek County, Colorado voted Democratic by 16.6 points (D+17), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 6,102 votes cast, 3,464 went Democratic and 2,452 went Republican.
What is Clear Creek County, Colorado's political typology?
Akashic places Clear Creek County, Colorado in the "Realigning Affluent Suburb" typology — College-educated, affluent suburbs — the one bloc moving toward the Democratic Party. 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 17 times, Republican 19 times, and other 1 times.
When did Clear Creek County, Colorado last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Clear Creek County, Colorado voted Republican was 2000.
How many people live in Clear Creek County, Colorado?
Clear Creek County, Colorado has a population of 9,262 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Clear Creek County, Colorado?
Median household income in Clear Creek County, Colorado is $94,577 — above the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Clear Creek County, Colorado?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Clear Creek County, Colorado from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 19 went Republican. The county's typology — "Realigning Affluent Suburb" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.