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
GroupMineral CountyColoradoUnited States
German22.1%17.9%12.5%
Irish18.2%11.2%9.4%
English10.7%12.6%9.5%
Italian7.8%4.9%4.8%
Polish4.8%2.1%2.2%
Welsh4.4%——
Scottish4.3%2.5%1.3%
Dutch4.3%——
Mexican4.5%15.8%11.3%
Spaniard0.8%1.0%—
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
Mineral County
Colorado
United States
Median age
56.4
37.9
39.1
Age 18–24
2.4%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
32.6%
15.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Mineral County
Colorado
United States
Median household income
$56,250
$95,470
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.0%
9.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
51.7%
45.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Mineral County
Colorado
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.1%
16.2%
22.3%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
1.0%
0.4%
0.7%
Religious landscape
Measure
Mineral County
Colorado
United States
Catholic
10.9%
15.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
12.6%
11.7%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
58.0%
64.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
18.5%
3.0%
5.2%
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.
Mineral County, Colorado
Precinct data
Results by precinct
2 precincts · 753 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Mineral County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -30662400013066240001
317
417
19
753
42.1%
55.4%
R+13.3
Mineral 108_0807940001
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presidential history
Presidential margin, 1896–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1896
+97.0%
1900
+53.8%
1904
+29.5%
1908
+37.1%
1912
+15.6%
1916
+30.9%
1920
−10.0%
1924
−15.0%
1928
+12.3%
1932
+25.9%
1936
+38.1%
1940
+8.7%
1944
−6.2%
1948
+13.7%
1952
−36.0%
1956
−25.7%
1960
+3.9%
1964
+39.0%
1968
+3.8%
1972
−43.4%
1976
−16.1%
1980
−32.4%
1984
−47.1%
1988
−10.9%
1992
+2.7%
1996
+2.9%
2000
−25.9%
2004
−25.2%
2008
−10.3%
2012
−8.2%
2016
−16.4%
2020
−14.6%
2024
−13.3%
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
R
42.1%Harris317
55.4%Trump417
1.6%Kennedy12
R+13.3
D+1.3
R+11.8
753
R
41.9%Biden317
56.5%Trump427
0.7%BLA5
R+14.6
D+1.9
R+19.0
756
R
36.3%Clinton237
52.8%Trump344
6.4%Johnson42
R+16.4
R+8.3
R+18.5
652
R
44.8%Obama291
52.9%Romney344
2.3%
R+8.2
D+2.1
R+12.0
650
R
43.3%Obama270
53.6%McCain334
3.0%
R+10.3
D+14.9
R+17.5
623
R
36.7%Kerry227
61.9%Bush383
1.5%
R+25.2
D+0.7
R+22.7
619
R
34.6%Gore168
60.5%Bush294
3.9%Nader19
R+25.9
R+28.8
R+26.4
486
D
43.0%Clinton192
40.0%Dole179
15.4%Perot69
D+2.9
D+0.2
R+5.6
447
D
38.1%Clinton171
35.4%Bush159
26.1%Perot117
D+2.7
D+13.6
R+2.9
449
R
44.2%Dukakis174
55.1%Bush217
0.8%
R+10.9
D+36.1
R+3.2
394
R
25.5%Mondale117
72.5%Reagan333
2.0%
R+47.1
R+14.6
R+28.8
459
R
27.8%Carter125
60.2%Reagan271
12.0%
R+32.4
R+16.4
R+22.7
450
R
39.5%Carter167
55.6%Ford235
5.0%
R+16.1
D+27.3
R+18.1
423
R
27.6%McGovern96
71.0%Nixon247
1.4%
R+43.4
R+47.2
R+20.2
348
D
47.5%Humphrey126
43.8%Nixon116
8.7%
D+3.8
R+35.2
D+4.5
265
D
69.2%Johnson204
30.2%Goldwater89
0.7%
D+39.0
D+35.0
D+16.4
295
D
51.8%Kennedy158
47.9%Nixon146
0.3%
D+3.9
D+29.7
D+3.8
305
R
36.9%Stevenson99
62.7%Eisenhower168
0.4%
R+25.7
D+10.3
R+10.3
268
R
31.8%Stevenson98
67.9%Eisenhower209
0.3%
R+36.0
R+49.8
R+25.3
308
D
56.7%Truman190
43.0%Dewey144
0.3%
D+13.7
D+19.9
D+9.2
335
R
46.6%Roosevelt150
52.8%Dewey170
0.6%
R+6.2
R+14.9
R+13.7
322
D
53.7%Roosevelt273
45.1%Willkie229
1.2%
D+8.7
R+29.5
R+1.3
508
D
68.3%Roosevelt285
30.2%Landon126
1.4%
D+38.1
D+12.3
D+13.9
417
D
55.4%Roosevelt210
29.6%Hoover112
15.0%
D+25.9
D+13.6
D+8.1
379
D
53.4%Smith187
41.1%Hoover144
5.4%
D+12.3
D+27.3
D+29.8
350
R
31.0%Davis101
46.0%Coolidge150
22.4%La Follette73
R+15.0
R+5.1
D+10.1
326
R
39.4%Cox146
49.3%Harding183
11.3%
R+10.0
R+40.9
D+16.2
371
D
60.0%Wilson278
29.2%Hughes135
10.8%
D+30.9
D+15.3
D+27.7
463
D
44.5%Wilson286
28.9%Taft186
26.6%
D+15.6
R+21.6
R+4.0
643
D
67.1%Bryan488
30.0%Taft218
2.9%
D+37.1
D+7.6
D+46.7
727
D
63.1%Parker575
33.6%Roosevelt306
3.3%
D+29.5
R+24.2
D+49.2
911
D
76.5%Bryan700
22.7%McKinley208
0.8%
D+53.8
R+43.2
D+61.3
915
D
98.3%Bryan808
1.3%McKinley11
0.4%
D+97.0
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Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
43.7%310
52.0%369
709
2020
R
39.9%302
57.7%437
757
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+11.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+13.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.9 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Mineral County, CO
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2016
838
298
360
177
3
2018
854
287
330
233
4
2020
938
262
358
314
4
2022
1,008
232
362
405
9
2024
1,008
215
330
453
10
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−8 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +133 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $89,593 in average income, against $80,158 for residents who stayed — 12% higher. (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 Mineral County, CO in Mineral County, CO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5
2012
+7
2013
+12
2014
−31
2015
+41
2016
+10
2017
+6
2018
+18
2019
−6
2021
+59
2022
+3
2023
+12
2024
+5
2025
−8
With fewer than 850 residents spread across the San Juan Mountains, Mineral County's small electorate makes each individual voter's choice unusually visible in the final margin—R+13.3 in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 47.1 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.3 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.3 points.
A population of 729, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,250 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Rappahannock County and Custer 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, Mineral County, Colorado voted Republican by 13.3 points (R+13.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 753 votes cast, 317 went Democratic and 417 went Republican.
When did Mineral County, Colorado last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mineral County, Colorado voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Mineral County, Colorado?
Mineral County, Colorado has a population of 729 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mineral County, Colorado?
Median household income in Mineral County, Colorado is $56,250 — below the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Mineral County, Colorado?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mineral County, Colorado from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
