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
GroupPerkins CountyNebraskaUnited States
German36.7%31.0%12.5%
English11.9%9.4%9.5%
Irish8.6%11.7%9.4%
American5.6%3.5%5.3%
Swedish4.7%3.1%—
Polish3.2%2.7%2.2%
Dutch1.7%——
Norwegian1.6%——
Mexican4.1%8.7%11.3%
Spaniard1.3%——
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
Perkins County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
41.2
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.0%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
23.8%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Perkins County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$72,778
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.2%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
25.8%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Perkins County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.5%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
3.2%
8.5%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Perkins County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
7.1%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
22.2%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.2%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
17.5%
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.
Perkins County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
2 precincts · 1,426 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Perkins County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -22
127
717
10
854
14.9%
84.0%
R+69.1
Precinct -11
60
507
5
572
10.5%
88.6%
R+78.1
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−25.9%
1896
+16.4%
1900
+11.1%
1904
−37.3%
1908
+2.1%
1912
+26.3%
1916
+28.5%
1920
−28.4%
1924
−20.8%
1928
−39.4%
1932
+41.5%
1936
+29.4%
1940
−14.6%
1944
−23.5%
1948
−2.3%
1952
−56.8%
1956
−32.1%
1960
−30.2%
1964
−2.0%
1968
−48.7%
1972
−53.4%
1976
−21.8%
1980
−58.4%
1984
−64.1%
1988
−40.5%
1992
−32.5%
1996
−43.2%
2000
−63.8%
2004
−65.7%
2008
−55.1%
2012
−64.3%
2016
−72.6%
2020
−72.6%
2024
−72.4%
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
13.1%Harris187
85.5%Trump1,224
0.6%Oliver9 +3
R+72.4
D+0.2
R+70.9
1,432
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican85.5%1,224
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic13.1%187
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.6%9
OtherAll other candidates0.4%6
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.3%4
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.1%2
R
12.9%Biden199
85.5%Trump1,321
1.6%Jorgensen24
R+72.6
±0.0
R+77.1
1,545
R
11.1%Clinton161
83.6%Trump1,217
3.7%Johnson54
R+72.6
R+8.2
R+74.7
1,455
R
17.1%Obama238
81.4%Romney1,135
1.1%Gray15
R+64.3
R+9.3
R+68.2
1,394
R
21.8%Obama310
76.9%McCain1,092
1.3%
R+55.1
D+10.6
R+62.3
1,420
R
16.8%Kerry262
82.5%Bush1,285
0.7%
R+65.7
R+1.8
R+63.2
1,558
R
16.7%Gore243
80.6%Bush1,170
2.1%Nader31
R+63.8
R+20.6
R+64.4
1,452
R
22.8%Clinton352
66.1%Dole1,018
10.6%Perot163
R+43.2
R+10.7
R+51.7
1,541
R
18.0%Clinton300
50.5%Bush842
31.3%Perot522
R+32.5
D+8.0
R+38.1
1,666
R
29.2%Dukakis468
69.7%Bush1,118
1.1%
R+40.5
D+23.6
R+32.8
1,604
R
17.7%Mondale307
81.8%Reagan1,420
0.5%
R+64.1
R+5.7
R+45.9
1,736
R
17.8%Carter313
76.2%Reagan1,342
6.1%
R+58.4
R+36.6
R+48.7
1,762
R
37.7%Carter622
59.5%Ford981
2.8%
R+21.8
D+31.6
R+23.8
1,649
R
23.3%McGovern354
76.7%Nixon1,165
0.0%
R+53.4
R+4.7
R+30.2
1,519
R
21.8%Humphrey360
70.5%Nixon1,165
7.7%
R+48.7
R+46.8
R+48.0
1,652
R
49.0%Johnson877
51.0%Goldwater912
0.0%
R+2.0
D+28.3
R+24.5
1,789
R
34.9%Kennedy697
65.1%Nixon1,301
0.0%
R+30.2
D+1.9
R+30.4
1,998
R
33.9%Stevenson666
66.1%Eisenhower1,296
0.0%
R+32.1
D+24.7
R+16.7
1,962
R
21.6%Stevenson451
78.4%Eisenhower1,637
0.0%
R+56.8
R+54.5
R+46.0
2,088
R
48.8%Truman863
51.2%Dewey904
0.0%
R+2.3
D+21.2
R+6.8
1,767
R
38.3%Roosevelt806
61.7%Dewey1,301
0.0%
R+23.5
R+8.9
R+31.0
2,107
R
42.7%Roosevelt1,054
57.3%Willkie1,413
0.0%
R+14.6
R+43.9
R+24.5
2,467
D
64.4%Roosevelt1,584
35.0%Landon861
0.6%
D+29.4
R+12.1
D+5.1
2,460
D
69.6%Roosevelt1,669
28.1%Hoover674
2.3%
D+41.5
D+80.9
D+23.7
2,398
R
30.0%Smith631
69.4%Hoover1,461
0.7%
R+39.4
R+18.6
R+21.9
2,106
R
29.8%Davis493
50.6%Coolidge836
19.2%La Follette318
R+20.8
D+7.6
D+4.4
1,652
R
32.8%Cox387
61.2%Harding722
6.0%
R+28.4
R+56.9
R+2.2
1,180
D
60.6%Wilson397
32.1%Hughes210
7.3%
D+28.5
D+2.3
D+25.4
655
D
43.7%Wilson253
17.4%Taft101
38.9%
D+26.3
D+24.1
D+6.7
579
D
50.7%Bryan265
48.6%Taft254
0.8%
D+2.1
D+39.4
D+11.7
523
R
17.4%Parker57
54.7%Roosevelt179
27.8%
R+37.3
R+48.4
R+17.6
327
D
54.6%Bryan231
43.5%McKinley184
1.9%
D+11.1
R+5.3
D+18.7
423
D
57.1%Bryan233
40.7%McKinley166
2.2%
D+16.4
D+42.3
D+22.5
408
O
9.6%Cleveland89
35.5%Harrison328
54.9%
Weaver +19.4
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R+27.5
924
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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
17.5%496
82.5%2,335
2,831
2020
R
9.3%138
86.0%1,270
1,477
2018
R
14.7%180
82.6%1,011
1,224
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+66.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+72.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.0 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+23 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −187 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $61,455 in average income, against $84,856 for residents who stayed — 28% 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 Perkins County, NE in Perkins County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−35
2012
−16
2013
−42
2014
−27
2015
+57
2016
−53
2017
−19
2018
+15
2019
−20
2021
−34
2022
+13
2023
−33
2024
−16
2025
+23
Perkins County recorded an R+72.7 margin in the 2024 presidential race, placing it among the most one-sided rural counties on the High Plains. Its sparse population of roughly 3,200 is spread across an agricultural landscape with few urban counterweights.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 72.6 points in 2020. The 2024 margin was 72.4 points.
A population of 2,821, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,778 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Clay County and Cherry 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, Perkins County, Nebraska voted Republican by 72.4 points (R+72.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,432 votes cast, 187 went Democratic and 1,224 went Republican.
When did Perkins County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Perkins County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Perkins County, Nebraska?
Perkins County, Nebraska has a population of 2,821 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Perkins County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Perkins County, Nebraska is $72,778 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Perkins County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Perkins County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
