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
GroupGreeley CountyNebraskaUnited States
German37.3%31.0%12.5%
Irish19.8%11.7%9.4%
English9.5%9.4%9.5%
Polish4.9%2.7%2.2%
Danish3.2%——
American2.5%3.5%5.3%
Czech2.5%3.4%—
Swedish1.9%3.1%—
Mexican1.8%8.7%11.3%
Spanish0.7%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
Greeley County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
44.1
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.9%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
25.9%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Greeley County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$63,929
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.1%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
21.3%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Greeley County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.0%
12.8%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Greeley County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
61.8%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
17.3%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
0.0%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
20.9%
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.
Greeley County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 1,235 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Greeley County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -SPALDINGSPALDING
52
364
2
418
12.4%
87.1%
R+74.6
Precinct -GREELEYGREELEY
72
272
6
350
20.6%
77.7%
R+57.1
Precinct -SCOTIASCOTIA
47
202
4
253
18.6%
79.8%
R+61.3
Precinct -WOLBACHWOLBACH
21
192
1
214
9.8%
89.7%
R+79.9
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−13.7%
1896
+32.4%
1900
+30.8%
1904
−25.2%
1908
+21.1%
1912
+31.0%
1916
+33.4%
1920
−6.3%
1924
+15.3%
1928
+18.0%
1932
+53.8%
1936
+25.0%
1940
−0.9%
1944
+0.9%
1948
+20.8%
1952
−25.1%
1956
−15.3%
1960
+13.6%
1964
+25.5%
1968
−8.1%
1972
−13.9%
1976
+5.3%
1980
−32.8%
1984
−32.1%
1988
−6.5%
1992
−10.8%
1996
−13.3%
2000
−32.3%
2004
−40.4%
2008
−21.4%
2012
−40.5%
2016
−59.7%
2020
−62.5%
2024
−67.9%
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
15.5%Harris192
83.4%Trump1,030
0.6%Stein7 +2
R+67.9
R+5.3
R+66.4
1,235
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican83.4%1,030
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic15.5%192
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.6%7
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.3%4
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.2%2
R
18.2%Biden229
80.7%Trump1,016
1.0%Jorgensen13
R+62.5
R+2.8
R+67.0
1,259
R
17.9%Clinton210
77.6%Trump912
3.2%Johnson38
R+59.7
R+19.2
R+61.8
1,175
R
28.7%Obama340
69.2%Romney820
1.0%Gray12
R+40.5
R+19.1
R+44.4
1,185
R
38.2%Obama458
59.6%McCain715
2.2%
R+21.4
D+19.0
R+28.7
1,199
R
28.9%Kerry361
69.3%Bush865
1.8%
R+40.4
R+8.1
R+37.9
1,248
R
31.8%Gore416
64.0%Bush839
2.8%Nader37
R+32.3
R+19.0
R+32.8
1,310
R
37.0%Clinton472
50.3%Dole642
12.1%Perot155
R+13.3
R+2.5
R+21.8
1,277
R
30.7%Clinton435
41.4%Bush588
27.8%Perot395
R+10.8
R+4.3
R+16.3
1,419
R
46.6%Dukakis670
53.1%Bush763
0.3%
R+6.5
D+25.6
D+1.3
1,438
R
33.6%Mondale485
65.7%Reagan948
0.6%
R+32.1
D+0.7
R+13.9
1,442
R
30.5%Carter495
63.3%Reagan1,028
6.3%
R+32.8
R+38.1
R+23.1
1,625
D
51.3%Carter877
46.1%Ford787
2.6%
D+5.3
D+19.1
D+3.2
1,709
R
43.1%McGovern760
56.9%Nixon1,005
0.0%
R+13.9
R+5.8
D+9.3
1,765
R
41.9%Humphrey739
50.0%Nixon882
8.1%
R+8.1
R+33.6
R+7.4
1,763
D
62.7%Johnson1,305
37.3%Goldwater775
0.0%
D+25.5
D+11.9
D+2.9
2,080
D
56.8%Kennedy1,263
43.2%Nixon960
0.0%
D+13.6
D+29.0
D+13.5
2,223
R
42.3%Stevenson910
57.7%Eisenhower1,240
0.0%
R+15.3
D+9.7
D+0.1
2,150
R
37.5%Stevenson924
62.5%Eisenhower1,543
0.0%
R+25.1
R+45.9
R+14.3
2,467
D
60.4%Truman1,265
39.6%Dewey829
0.0%
D+20.8
D+19.9
D+16.3
2,094
D
50.5%Roosevelt1,265
49.5%Dewey1,242
0.0%
D+0.9
D+1.8
R+6.6
2,507
R
49.5%Roosevelt1,502
50.5%Willkie1,530
0.0%
R+0.9
R+25.9
R+10.9
3,032
D
56.4%Roosevelt1,988
31.4%Landon1,107
12.2%
D+25.0
R+28.8
D+0.7
3,525
D
75.7%Roosevelt2,832
21.8%Hoover817
2.5%
D+53.8
D+35.8
D+36.0
3,743
D
58.9%Smith2,098
40.9%Hoover1,457
0.3%
D+18.0
D+2.7
D+35.5
3,564
D
41.8%Davis1,220
26.5%Coolidge773
31.1%La Follette908
D+15.3
D+21.6
D+40.5
2,919
R
45.1%Cox1,180
51.4%Harding1,345
3.6%
R+6.3
R+39.7
D+19.9
2,618
D
65.0%Wilson1,289
31.6%Hughes627
3.4%
D+33.4
D+2.3
D+30.2
1,984
D
52.3%Wilson913
21.2%Taft371
26.5%
D+31.0
D+9.9
D+11.5
1,746
D
59.4%Bryan1,072
38.3%Taft691
2.4%
D+21.1
D+46.3
D+30.7
1,806
R
29.0%Parker447
54.3%Roosevelt836
16.7%
R+25.2
R+56.0
R+5.6
1,541
D
64.9%Bryan880
34.2%McKinley463
0.9%
D+30.8
R+1.6
D+38.3
1,355
D
66.1%Bryan777
33.7%McKinley396
0.3%
D+32.4
D+46.1
D+38.5
1,176
O
15.6%Cleveland159
29.3%Harrison298
55.1%
Weaver +25.8
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R+15.3
1,017
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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
19.3%468
80.7%1,958
2,426
2020
R
14.3%166
80.9%938
1,160
2018
R
23.9%238
73.6%732
995
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+49.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+67.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−24 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −215 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $45,410 in average income, against $58,676 for residents who stayed — 23% 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 Greeley County, NE in Greeley County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−8
2012
−72
2013
+15
2014
−1
2015
−53
2016
−33
2017
−28
2018
−14
2019
−5
2021
+10
2022
+48
2023
−21
2024
−29
2025
−24
With fewer than 3,000 residents spread across the Loup River watershed, Greeley County delivers outsized Republican margins—67-plus points in 2024—typical of Nebraska's rural agricultural interior where population has declined steadily for decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 67.9 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 67.9 points.
A population of 2,202, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,929 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Howard County and Boone 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, Greeley County, Nebraska voted Republican by 67.9 points (R+67.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,235 votes cast, 192 went Democratic and 1,030 went Republican.
When did Greeley County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Greeley County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Greeley County, Nebraska?
Greeley County, Nebraska has a population of 2,202 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Greeley County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Greeley County, Nebraska is $63,929 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Greeley County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Greeley County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
