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
GroupHitchcock CountyNebraskaUnited States
German29.4%31.0%12.5%
Irish10.4%11.7%9.4%
English9.5%9.4%9.5%
American6.9%3.5%5.3%
Scottish3.2%—1.3%
Italian2.4%2.1%4.8%
Czech2.3%3.4%—
Swedish2.2%3.1%—
Mexican2.4%8.7%11.3%
Cuban1.2%0.4%0.7%
Spaniard0.6%——
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
Hitchcock County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
45.5
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.4%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
26.5%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Hitchcock County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$51,567
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
12.8%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
20.9%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Hitchcock County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.5%
12.8%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Hitchcock County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
8.8%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
22.1%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
47.4%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
16.0%
12.1%
5.2%
Black Protestant
5.7%
0.8%
2.2%
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.
Hitchcock County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 1,433 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Hitchcock County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -CULBERTSONCULBERTSON
48
487
3
538
8.9%
90.5%
R+81.6
Precinct -TRENTONTRENTON
44
350
4
398
11.1%
87.9%
R+76.9
Precinct -STRATTONSTRATTON
40
270
2
312
12.8%
86.5%
R+73.7
Precinct -PALISADEPALISADE
20
162
3
185
10.8%
87.6%
R+76.8
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−33.8%
1896
+7.2%
1900
+7.9%
1904
−44.1%
1908
−0.1%
1912
+32.5%
1916
+24.8%
1920
−28.0%
1924
−16.4%
1928
−48.3%
1932
+20.2%
1936
+14.9%
1940
−16.7%
1944
−27.9%
1948
−13.4%
1952
−50.0%
1956
−35.9%
1960
−41.3%
1964
−9.7%
1968
−44.8%
1972
−57.3%
1976
−6.5%
1980
−58.3%
1984
−60.4%
1988
−40.0%
1992
−26.9%
1996
−36.2%
2000
−55.0%
2004
−58.9%
2008
−47.5%
2012
−60.5%
2016
−73.0%
2020
−74.1%
2024
−77.6%
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
10.6%Harris152
88.2%Trump1,269
0.4%West6 +3
R+77.6
R+3.5
R+76.2
1,439
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican88.2%1,269
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic10.6%152
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.4%6
OtherAll other candidates0.4%6
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.3%5
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.1%1
R
11.9%Biden175
86.0%Trump1,264
2.0%Jorgensen30
R+74.1
R+1.1
R+78.5
1,470
R
11.0%Clinton161
83.9%Trump1,232
4.2%Johnson61
R+73.0
R+12.5
R+75.0
1,468
R
18.3%Obama274
78.8%Romney1,178
1.8%Gray27
R+60.5
R+13.0
R+64.3
1,495
R
25.1%Obama346
72.6%McCain1,001
2.3%
R+47.5
D+11.4
R+54.8
1,379
R
19.9%Kerry296
78.8%Bush1,171
1.3%
R+58.9
R+3.9
R+56.4
1,486
R
21.1%Gore312
76.1%Bush1,126
1.4%Nader21
R+55.0
R+18.8
R+55.5
1,480
R
26.1%Clinton409
62.3%Dole977
11.0%Perot173
R+36.2
R+9.3
R+44.7
1,569
R
20.7%Clinton359
47.6%Bush824
31.2%Perot540
R+26.9
D+13.1
R+32.4
1,731
R
29.4%Dukakis480
69.4%Bush1,132
1.1%
R+40.0
D+20.4
R+32.3
1,630
R
19.6%Mondale341
80.0%Reagan1,391
0.4%
R+60.4
R+2.1
R+42.2
1,739
R
16.8%Carter329
75.1%Reagan1,474
8.2%
R+58.3
R+51.9
R+48.6
1,963
R
45.4%Carter786
51.8%Ford898
2.8%
R+6.5
D+50.8
R+8.5
1,732
R
21.4%McGovern364
78.6%Nixon1,339
0.0%
R+57.3
R+12.4
R+34.1
1,703
R
22.1%Humphrey387
66.9%Nixon1,173
11.0%
R+44.8
R+35.1
R+44.1
1,753
R
45.2%Johnson946
54.8%Goldwater1,149
0.0%
R+9.7
D+31.7
R+32.3
2,095
R
29.3%Kennedy678
70.7%Nixon1,634
0.0%
R+41.3
R+5.5
R+41.5
2,312
R
32.1%Stevenson741
67.9%Eisenhower1,570
0.0%
R+35.9
D+14.1
R+20.5
2,311
R
25.0%Stevenson669
75.0%Eisenhower2,008
0.0%
R+50.0
R+36.6
R+39.3
2,677
R
43.3%Truman923
56.7%Dewey1,208
0.0%
R+13.4
D+14.5
R+17.9
2,131
R
36.0%Roosevelt877
64.0%Dewey1,556
0.0%
R+27.9
R+11.2
R+35.4
2,433
R
41.7%Roosevelt1,188
58.3%Willkie1,663
0.0%
R+16.7
R+31.5
R+26.6
2,851
D
57.1%Roosevelt1,738
42.2%Landon1,285
0.7%
D+14.9
R+5.4
R+9.4
3,045
D
59.4%Roosevelt1,772
39.2%Hoover1,168
1.4%
D+20.2
D+68.5
D+2.5
2,983
R
25.4%Smith698
73.7%Hoover2,022
0.8%
R+48.3
R+31.8
R+30.8
2,743
R
29.4%Davis633
45.8%Coolidge987
24.5%La Follette528
R+16.4
D+11.6
D+8.8
2,155
R
33.6%Cox615
61.6%Harding1,127
4.8%
R+28.0
R+52.7
R+1.8
1,830
D
60.9%Wilson733
36.2%Hughes435
2.9%
D+24.8
R+7.7
D+21.6
1,203
D
44.6%Wilson471
12.1%Taft128
43.3%
D+32.5
D+32.5
D+12.9
1,057
R
48.8%Bryan632
48.8%Taft633
2.4%
R+0.1
D+44.0
D+9.5
1,296
R
17.0%Parker166
61.1%Roosevelt598
22.0%
R+44.1
R+52.0
R+24.5
979
D
53.2%Bryan528
45.4%McKinley450
1.4%
D+7.9
D+0.7
D+15.4
992
D
53.1%Bryan487
45.9%McKinley421
1.1%
D+7.2
D+41.0
D+13.3
918
O
6.1%Cleveland76
40.0%Harrison495
53.9%
Weaver +13.9
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R+35.5
1,238
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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
17.6%501
82.4%2,340
2,841
2020
R
10.1%144
82.3%1,179
1,432
2018
R
14.3%154
82.5%890
1,079
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+66.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+77.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 11 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−10 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −183 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $53,326 in average income, against $59,796 for residents who stayed — 11% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Red Willow County, NE20
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 Hitchcock County, NE in Hitchcock County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−43
2012
+19
2013
−17
2014
+40
2015
−9
2016
−44
2017
−7
2018
+3
2019
−22
2021
−1
2022
+31
2023
−50
2024
−73
2025
−10
With roughly 3,100 residents spread across the Republican Platte River shortgrass plains, Hitchcock County recorded a 78-point presidential margin in 2024—among the widest in the state and a signal of how consolidation in rural agricultural counties has accelerated over recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 77.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 77.6 points.
A population of 2,569, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,567 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Frontier County and Hayes 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, Hitchcock County, Nebraska voted Republican by 77.6 points (R+77.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,439 votes cast, 152 went Democratic and 1,269 went Republican.
When did Hitchcock County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hitchcock County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Hitchcock County, Nebraska?
Hitchcock County, Nebraska has a population of 2,569 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hitchcock County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Hitchcock County, Nebraska is $51,567 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Hitchcock County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Hitchcock County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
