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
GroupRock CountyNebraskaUnited States
German30.0%31.0%12.5%
Irish15.5%11.7%9.4%
English11.7%9.4%9.5%
American4.5%3.5%5.3%
Scottish3.7%—1.3%
Czech3.0%3.4%—
French2.3%—1.6%
Swedish1.3%3.1%—
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
Rock County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
49.4
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
8.4%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
29.0%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rock County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$58,125
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.8%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
27.1%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rock County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.1%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
1.7%
8.5%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rock County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
7.9%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.4%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.7%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
33.0%
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.
Rock County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
1 precincts · 834 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Rock County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -ROCKROCK
85
745
4
834
10.2%
89.3%
R+79.1
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−46.6%
1896
−20.7%
1900
−32.5%
1904
−51.1%
1908
−16.2%
1912
+5.6%
1916
+8.4%
1920
−43.2%
1924
−23.6%
1928
−54.4%
1932
+13.6%
1936
−14.0%
1940
−29.6%
1944
−32.1%
1948
−28.0%
1952
−64.2%
1956
−53.5%
1960
−62.2%
1964
−37.9%
1968
−62.6%
1972
−74.3%
1976
−47.3%
1980
−66.9%
1984
−71.0%
1988
−58.4%
1992
−43.2%
1996
−43.4%
2000
−65.3%
2004
−69.1%
2008
−62.5%
2012
−72.1%
2016
−77.3%
2020
−78.4%
2024
−79.0%
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
10.2%Harris85
89.2%Trump745
0.2%Oliver2 +3
R+79.0
R+0.7
R+77.6
835
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican89.2%745
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic10.2%85
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.2%2
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.1%1
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.1%1
OtherAll other candidates0.1%1
R
10.0%Biden84
88.4%Trump744
1.5%Jorgensen13
R+78.4
R+1.1
R+82.8
842
R
8.8%Clinton70
86.1%Trump687
4.1%Johnson33
R+77.3
R+5.2
R+79.4
798
R
13.1%Obama103
85.2%Romney672
1.0%Gray8
R+72.1
R+9.6
R+76.0
789
R
17.4%Obama139
79.9%McCain640
2.7%
R+62.5
D+6.5
R+69.8
801
R
14.7%Kerry130
83.8%Bush740
1.5%
R+69.1
R+3.8
R+66.6
883
R
15.8%Gore141
81.1%Bush725
1.9%Nader17
R+65.3
R+21.9
R+65.8
894
R
20.3%Clinton180
63.7%Dole564
15.3%Perot135
R+43.4
R+0.2
R+51.9
885
R
16.4%Clinton162
59.6%Bush588
23.6%Perot233
R+43.2
D+15.3
R+48.7
987
R
20.7%Dukakis198
79.1%Bush757
0.2%
R+58.4
D+12.6
R+50.7
957
R
14.4%Mondale147
85.3%Reagan873
0.3%
R+71.0
R+4.0
R+52.7
1,023
R
13.8%Carter146
80.7%Reagan855
5.5%
R+66.9
R+19.7
R+57.2
1,059
R
25.3%Carter255
72.5%Ford732
2.2%
R+47.3
D+27.1
R+49.3
1,009
R
12.8%McGovern138
87.2%Nixon937
0.0%
R+74.3
R+11.8
R+51.2
1,075
R
14.2%Humphrey146
76.7%Nixon791
9.1%
R+62.6
R+24.7
R+61.9
1,031
R
31.0%Johnson376
69.0%Goldwater835
0.0%
R+37.9
D+24.3
R+60.5
1,211
R
18.9%Kennedy253
81.1%Nixon1,084
0.0%
R+62.2
R+8.6
R+62.3
1,337
R
23.2%Stevenson281
76.8%Eisenhower928
0.0%
R+53.5
D+10.7
R+38.1
1,209
R
17.9%Stevenson267
82.1%Eisenhower1,226
0.0%
R+64.2
R+36.2
R+53.5
1,493
R
36.0%Truman455
64.0%Dewey809
0.0%
R+28.0
D+4.1
R+32.5
1,264
R
34.0%Roosevelt506
66.0%Dewey984
0.0%
R+32.1
R+2.5
R+39.6
1,490
R
35.2%Roosevelt600
64.8%Willkie1,104
0.0%
R+29.6
R+15.6
R+39.5
1,704
R
42.5%Roosevelt710
56.5%Landon944
1.1%
R+14.0
R+27.6
R+38.3
1,672
D
56.1%Roosevelt810
42.4%Hoover613
1.5%
D+13.6
D+68.0
R+4.2
1,445
R
22.7%Smith305
77.1%Hoover1,034
0.1%
R+54.4
R+30.7
R+36.9
1,341
R
23.7%Davis293
47.3%Coolidge585
28.6%La Follette353
R+23.6
D+19.5
D+1.6
1,236
R
27.0%Cox239
70.2%Harding621
2.8%
R+43.2
R+51.6
R+17.0
885
D
51.1%Wilson449
42.7%Hughes375
6.3%
D+8.4
D+2.8
D+5.3
879
O
32.1%Wilson279
26.5%Taft230
41.4%
Roosevelt +9.3
D+21.9
R+13.9
869
R
40.1%Bryan334
56.4%Taft469
3.5%
R+16.2
D+34.8
R+6.7
832
R
19.6%Parker138
70.6%Roosevelt498
9.8%
R+51.1
R+18.6
R+31.4
705
R
33.2%Bryan243
65.7%McKinley481
1.1%
R+32.5
R+11.8
R+25.0
732
R
37.7%Bryan224
58.4%McKinley347
3.9%
R+20.7
D+25.9
R+14.6
594
R
8.3%Cleveland52
54.9%Harrison343
36.8%
R+46.6
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R+48.2
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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
13.5%220
86.5%1,415
1,635
2020
R
5.4%43
88.5%699
790
2018
R
11.9%79
85.6%569
665
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+81.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+79.0
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.4 points.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−3 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −87 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $52,853 in average income, against $67,850 for residents who stayed — 22% 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 Rock County, NE in Rock County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−39
2012
−40
2013
+17
2014
+14
2015
−11
2016
−4
2017
+21
2018
−65
2019
+8
2021
+5
2022
−23
2023
+32
2024
+1
2025
−3
Rock County's 2024 presidential margin of R+79.1 reflects a pattern common to the Sandhills: sparse population, ranching-dominant economy, and some of the most lopsided partisan numbers in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 79.0 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 79.0 points.
A population of 1,319, a 99% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,125 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thomas County and Hodgeman 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, Rock County, Nebraska voted Republican by 79.0 points (R+79.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 835 votes cast, 85 went Democratic and 745 went Republican.
When did Rock County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Rock County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1932.
How many people live in Rock County, Nebraska?
Rock County, Nebraska has a population of 1,319 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rock County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Rock County, Nebraska is $58,125 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Rock County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Rock County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 31 went Republican.
