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
GroupJohnson CountyNebraskaUnited States
German35.0%31.0%12.5%
English8.2%9.4%9.5%
Irish6.7%11.7%9.4%
Czech2.3%3.4%—
American2.1%3.5%5.3%
Scottish2.0%—1.3%
Italian1.7%2.1%4.8%
Swedish1.4%3.1%—
Mexican7.4%8.7%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.1%0.3%1.8%
Guatemalan0.5%1.0%0.5%
Spaniard0.3%——
Salvadoran0.2%0.6%0.7%
African American†4.3%3.7%9.9%
Sudanese0.3%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
Johnson County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
41.1
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
8.3%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.7%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Johnson County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$57,632
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
9.7%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
17.7%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Johnson County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
9.5%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
8.1%
8.5%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Johnson County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
11.8%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
16.5%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
60.3%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
10.9%
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.
Johnson County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
6 precincts · 2,152 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Johnson County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -NEMAHA 2NEMAHA 2
207
432
10
649
31.9%
66.6%
R+34.7
Precinct -STERLINGSTERLING
167
438
9
614
27.2%
71.3%
R+44.1
Precinct -NEMAHA 1NEMAHA 1
106
200
5
311
34.1%
64.3%
R+30.2
Precinct -SPRING CREEKSPRING CREEK
72
227
1
300
24.0%
75.7%
R+51.7
Precinct -TODD CREEKTODD CREEK
40
128
5
173
23.1%
74.0%
R+50.9
Precinct -WESTERNWESTERN
33
71
1
105
31.4%
67.6%
R+36.2
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−38.8%
1896
−5.9%
1900
−12.6%
1904
−38.2%
1908
−8.1%
1912
+9.7%
1916
−10.1%
1920
−44.5%
1924
−20.6%
1928
−27.7%
1932
+20.6%
1936
+5.1%
1940
−36.5%
1944
−44.4%
1948
−16.9%
1952
−48.0%
1956
−30.9%
1960
−29.1%
1964
+8.4%
1968
−30.2%
1972
−28.2%
1976
−7.5%
1980
−42.6%
1984
−30.1%
1988
−0.8%
1992
−2.7%
1996
−11.4%
2000
−19.7%
2004
−24.4%
2008
−10.8%
2012
−21.1%
2016
−37.9%
2020
−39.0%
2024
−40.3%
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
28.9%Harris625
69.2%Trump1,496
0.6%Oliver13 +3
R+40.3
R+1.3
R+38.8
2,163
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican69.2%1,496
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic28.9%625
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.6%13
OtherAll other candidates0.5%11
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.4%9
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.4%9
R
29.0%Biden647
68.0%Trump1,518
2.9%Jorgensen64
R+39.0
R+1.1
R+43.5
2,233
R
27.0%Clinton563
64.9%Trump1,355
5.8%Johnson122
R+37.9
R+16.8
R+40.0
2,089
R
38.3%Obama790
59.4%Romney1,225
1.7%Gray36
R+21.1
R+10.3
R+24.9
2,063
R
43.3%Obama914
54.1%McCain1,142
2.6%
R+10.8
D+13.6
R+18.1
2,110
R
37.0%Kerry885
61.4%Bush1,470
1.6%
R+24.4
R+4.7
R+22.0
2,394
R
37.6%Gore794
57.3%Bush1,210
3.5%Nader74
R+19.7
R+8.3
R+20.2
2,112
R
36.6%Clinton770
48.0%Dole1,009
14.7%Perot309
R+11.4
R+8.7
R+19.9
2,103
R
34.8%Clinton822
37.5%Bush885
27.2%Perot642
R+2.7
R+1.9
R+8.2
2,360
R
49.4%Dukakis1,164
50.2%Bush1,182
0.4%
R+0.8
D+29.3
D+7.0
2,356
R
34.3%Mondale821
64.4%Reagan1,542
1.4%
R+30.1
D+12.5
R+11.9
2,396
R
24.4%Carter626
67.0%Reagan1,719
8.6%
R+42.6
R+35.2
R+32.9
2,565
R
45.4%Carter1,115
52.9%Ford1,298
1.7%
R+7.5
D+20.7
R+9.5
2,455
R
35.9%McGovern917
64.1%Nixon1,637
0.0%
R+28.2
D+2.0
R+5.0
2,554
R
30.6%Humphrey759
60.8%Nixon1,508
8.7%
R+30.2
R+38.6
R+29.5
2,482
D
54.2%Johnson1,554
45.8%Goldwater1,312
0.0%
D+8.4
D+37.6
R+14.1
2,866
R
35.4%Kennedy1,151
64.6%Nixon2,098
0.0%
R+29.1
D+1.8
R+29.3
3,249
R
34.5%Stevenson1,140
65.5%Eisenhower2,160
0.0%
R+30.9
D+17.1
R+15.5
3,300
R
26.0%Stevenson978
74.0%Eisenhower2,787
0.0%
R+48.0
R+31.1
R+37.3
3,765
R
41.5%Truman1,291
58.5%Dewey1,817
0.0%
R+16.9
D+27.5
R+21.4
3,108
R
27.8%Roosevelt1,019
72.2%Dewey2,649
0.0%
R+44.4
R+7.9
R+51.9
3,668
R
31.7%Roosevelt1,357
68.3%Willkie2,919
0.0%
R+36.5
R+41.7
R+46.5
4,276
D
52.1%Roosevelt2,359
47.0%Landon2,126
0.9%
D+5.1
R+15.4
R+19.1
4,525
D
59.9%Roosevelt2,505
39.3%Hoover1,644
0.8%
D+20.6
D+48.3
D+2.8
4,181
R
35.9%Smith1,485
63.7%Hoover2,632
0.4%
R+27.7
R+7.1
R+10.3
4,134
R
33.5%Davis1,285
54.1%Coolidge2,075
12.1%La Follette465
R+20.6
D+23.9
D+4.6
3,834
R
26.8%Cox909
71.3%Harding2,416
1.9%
R+44.5
R+34.3
R+18.3
3,389
R
44.3%Wilson1,117
54.4%Hughes1,373
1.3%
R+10.1
R+19.8
R+13.3
2,524
D
39.4%Wilson890
29.8%Taft672
30.8%
D+9.7
D+17.7
R+9.9
2,257
R
44.9%Bryan1,150
53.0%Taft1,357
2.1%
R+8.1
D+30.1
D+1.5
2,560
R
25.3%Parker642
63.5%Roosevelt1,611
11.3%
R+38.2
R+25.5
R+18.5
2,539
R
42.2%Bryan1,179
54.9%McKinley1,532
2.9%
R+12.6
R+6.7
R+5.1
2,793
R
45.7%Bryan1,246
51.6%McKinley1,408
2.7%
R+5.9
D+32.9
D+0.1
2,728
R
9.9%Cleveland234
48.7%Harrison1,150
41.4%
R+38.8
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R+40.5
2,360
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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
34.7%1,475
65.3%2,775
4,250
2020
R
19.7%417
74.4%1,576
2,118
2018
R
32.8%581
62.1%1,101
1,772
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+41.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+40.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.1 points.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+50 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +34 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $63,596 in average income, against $67,194 for residents who stayed — 5% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean D+4.3 on average — 45 points more Democratic-leaning than Johnson County, NE itself (R+40.3).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Lancaster County, NE25D+4.3
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Lancaster County, NE36
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 Johnson County, NE in Johnson County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4
2012
−37
2013
+13
2014
+73
2015
+28
2016
−7
2017
−19
2018
−32
2019
−30
2021
+54
2022
−40
2023
−33
2024
+18
2025
+50
Johnson County's roughly 4,500 residents are spread across southeastern Nebraska farmland, and its presidential results have consistently ranked among the state's most lopsided, with Republican candidates routinely clearing 65% of the vote.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 48.0 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.3 points.
A population of 5,261, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,632 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Franklin County and Jay 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, Johnson County, Nebraska voted Republican by 40.3 points (R+40.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,163 votes cast, 625 went Democratic and 1,496 went Republican.
When did Johnson County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Johnson County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Johnson County, Nebraska?
Johnson County, Nebraska has a population of 5,261 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Johnson County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Johnson County, Nebraska is $57,632 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Johnson County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Johnson County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 30 went Republican.
