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
GroupColfax CountyNebraskaUnited States
Mexican32.2%8.7%11.3%
Guatemalan10.8%1.0%0.5%
Salvadoran1.1%0.6%0.7%
Cuban0.7%0.4%0.7%
Dominican0.2%—0.7%
Spaniard0.2%——
German17.8%31.0%12.5%
Czech9.9%3.4%—
Irish6.8%11.7%9.4%
English3.9%9.4%9.5%
Swedish1.8%3.1%—
Polish1.6%2.7%2.2%
American1.1%3.5%5.3%
Dutch0.9%——
Sudanese1.7%0.2%—
African1.0%0.3%0.5%
African American†0.6%3.7%9.9%
Somali0.2%——
Maya1.8%——
Rosebud Sioux0.5%——
White Mountain Apache0.2%——
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
Colfax County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
35.5
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
8.0%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
13.8%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Colfax County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$82,530
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
6.9%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
14.8%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Colfax County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
44.6%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
40.4%
8.5%
13.6%
Arabic
2.7%
0.4%
0.4%
Religious landscape
Measure
Colfax County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
51.6%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
4.7%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
35.9%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.8%
12.1%
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.
Colfax County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 3,516 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Colfax County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -CLARKSON 4CLARKSON 4
131
711
7
849
15.4%
83.7%
R+68.3
Precinct -SCHUYLER 2SCHUYLER 2
253
573
6
832
30.4%
68.9%
R+38.5
Precinct -SCHUYLER 3SCHUYLER 3
222
526
10
758
29.3%
69.4%
R+40.1
Precinct -SCHUYLER 1SCHUYLER 1
169
372
8
549
30.8%
67.8%
R+37.0
Precinct -HOWELLS 5HOWELLS 5
70
454
4
528
13.3%
86.0%
R+72.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−1.2%
1896
+21.6%
1900
+13.4%
1904
−18.5%
1908
+4.3%
1912
+18.0%
1916
+28.3%
1920
−34.4%
1924
−4.2%
1928
+31.3%
1932
+71.7%
1936
+30.9%
1940
−4.6%
1944
−3.0%
1948
−0.8%
1952
−39.1%
1956
−30.1%
1960
−11.8%
1964
+5.6%
1968
−37.9%
1972
−43.3%
1976
−16.9%
1980
−53.1%
1984
−50.2%
1988
−20.2%
1992
−21.8%
1996
−25.1%
2000
−44.5%
2004
−44.0%
2008
−27.9%
2012
−35.3%
2016
−40.8%
2020
−43.2%
2024
−50.9%
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
24.0%Harris845
74.9%Trump2,636
0.6%Oliver20 +3
R+50.9
R+7.7
R+49.4
3,519
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican74.9%2,636
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic24.0%845
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.6%20
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.2%8
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.2%7
OtherAll other candidates0.1%3
R
27.5%Biden1,025
70.7%Trump2,636
1.5%Jorgensen56
R+43.2
R+2.4
R+47.7
3,726
R
26.7%Clinton859
67.5%Trump2,171
3.7%Johnson118
R+40.8
R+5.6
R+42.9
3,214
R
31.6%Obama969
66.8%Romney2,051
1.0%Gray31
R+35.3
R+7.4
R+39.1
3,069
R
35.1%Obama1,125
63.0%McCain2,018
1.9%
R+27.9
D+16.1
R+35.2
3,203
R
27.3%Kerry990
71.3%Bush2,589
1.5%
R+44.0
D+0.5
R+41.6
3,633
R
26.0%Gore863
70.5%Bush2,338
2.2%Nader72
R+44.5
R+19.4
R+45.0
3,315
R
30.1%Clinton1,065
55.2%Dole1,954
13.9%Perot492
R+25.1
R+3.3
R+33.6
3,538
R
24.4%Clinton1,011
46.2%Bush1,915
28.9%Perot1,197
R+21.8
R+1.6
R+27.4
4,144
R
39.6%Dukakis1,542
59.7%Bush2,329
0.7%
R+20.2
D+30.1
R+12.5
3,898
R
24.4%Mondale981
74.7%Reagan2,999
0.9%
R+50.2
D+2.9
R+32.0
4,016
R
20.0%Carter893
73.2%Reagan3,259
6.8%
R+53.1
R+36.2
R+43.4
4,454
R
40.4%Carter1,666
57.3%Ford2,364
2.3%
R+16.9
D+26.4
R+19.0
4,123
R
28.3%McGovern1,107
71.7%Nixon2,799
0.0%
R+43.3
R+5.4
R+20.2
3,906
R
26.5%Humphrey932
64.5%Nixon2,264
9.0%
R+37.9
R+43.6
R+37.2
3,511
D
52.8%Johnson2,207
47.2%Goldwater1,972
0.0%
D+5.6
D+17.4
R+17.0
4,179
R
44.1%Kennedy1,975
55.9%Nixon2,504
0.0%
R+11.8
D+18.3
R+12.0
4,479
R
34.9%Stevenson1,526
65.1%Eisenhower2,843
0.0%
R+30.1
D+9.0
R+14.7
4,369
R
30.4%Stevenson1,458
69.6%Eisenhower3,332
0.0%
R+39.1
R+38.3
R+28.4
4,790
R
49.6%Truman1,897
50.4%Dewey1,928
0.0%
R+0.8
D+2.2
R+5.3
3,825
R
48.5%Roosevelt2,178
51.5%Dewey2,314
0.0%
R+3.0
D+1.5
R+10.5
4,492
R
47.7%Roosevelt2,361
52.3%Willkie2,587
0.0%
R+4.6
R+35.4
R+14.5
4,948
D
63.3%Roosevelt3,210
32.4%Landon1,644
4.4%
D+30.9
R+40.9
D+6.6
5,075
D
85.3%Roosevelt4,076
13.6%Hoover648
1.2%
D+71.7
D+40.4
D+53.9
4,779
D
65.5%Smith2,746
34.1%Hoover1,432
0.4%
D+31.3
D+35.6
D+48.8
4,194
R
34.8%Davis1,293
39.0%Coolidge1,450
26.0%La Follette965
R+4.2
D+30.2
D+21.0
3,716
R
31.8%Cox957
66.3%Harding1,992
1.9%
R+34.4
R+62.8
R+8.3
3,005
D
63.1%Wilson1,628
34.8%Hughes897
2.1%
D+28.3
D+10.3
D+25.2
2,579
D
47.5%Wilson998
29.5%Taft620
23.0%
D+18.0
D+13.7
R+1.5
2,100
D
51.0%Bryan1,267
46.7%Taft1,159
2.3%
D+4.3
D+22.9
D+13.9
2,483
R
34.5%Parker768
53.0%Roosevelt1,180
12.4%
R+18.5
R+31.9
D+1.2
2,225
D
56.0%Bryan1,357
42.6%McKinley1,033
1.4%
D+13.4
R+8.2
D+20.9
2,423
D
59.6%Bryan1,420
38.0%McKinley905
2.4%
D+21.6
D+22.8
D+27.7
2,383
O
31.1%Cleveland589
32.3%Harrison612
36.7%
Weaver +4.4
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R+2.9
1,896
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
27.8%1,933
72.2%5,009
6,942
2020
R
21.0%747
74.6%2,652
3,555
2018
R
27.7%693
69.3%1,731
2,499
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+28.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+50.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 23 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−210 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,792 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $49,486 in average income, against $68,663 for residents who stayed — 28% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+58.1 on average — 7.2 points more Republican-leaning than Colfax County, NE itself (R+50.9).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Platte County, NE62R+58.1
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Platte County, NE113
Douglas County, NE25
Dodge County, NE23
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 Colfax County, NE in Colfax County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−86
2012
−128
2013
−248
2014
+7
2015
−179
2016
−300
2017
−319
2018
−222
2019
−267
2021
−219
2022
−259
2023
−206
2024
−156
2025
−210
Colfax County's population is roughly 40% Hispanic, a demographic composition unusual for the Great Plains, yet presidential margins have run heavily Republican — a pattern that mirrors broader rural Latino rightward shifts seen nationally in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 53.1 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.9 points.
A population of 10,641, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,530 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Medina County and Ford 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, Colfax County, Nebraska voted Republican by 50.9 points (R+50.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,519 votes cast, 845 went Democratic and 2,636 went Republican.
When did Colfax County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Colfax County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Colfax County, Nebraska?
Colfax County, Nebraska has a population of 10,641 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Colfax County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Colfax County, Nebraska is $82,530 — above the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Colfax County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Colfax County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
