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
GroupGraham CountyNorth CarolinaUnited States
American36.2%8.3%5.3%
Irish9.3%8.4%9.4%
English9.0%12.7%9.5%
German5.9%9.4%12.5%
Scotch-Irish2.1%1.4%—
Scottish1.4%2.3%1.3%
Italian1.3%3.3%4.8%
Welsh0.5%——
Navajo0.2%——
Mexican2.9%5.6%11.3%
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
Graham County
North Carolina
United States
Median age
45.6
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
6.4%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
25.5%
17.2%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Graham County
North Carolina
United States
Median household income
$49,684
$72,388
$84,427
Poverty rate
6.7%
13.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
17.6%
35.8%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Graham County
North Carolina
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
6.0%
13.5%
22.3%
Spanish
2.4%
8.7%
13.6%
Other languages
3.0%
0.5%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Graham County
North Carolina
United States
Catholic
3.6%
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
29.4%
26.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
62.2%
48.0%
51.5%
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.
Graham County, North Carolina
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 4,779 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Graham County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -EASTEAST
321
1,587
23
1,931
16.6%
82.2%
R+65.6
Precinct -WESTWEST
263
1,241
17
1,521
17.3%
81.6%
R+64.3
Precinct -STECSTEC
212
758
15
985
21.5%
77.0%
R+55.4
Precinct -TAPOTAPO
43
297
2
342
12.6%
86.8%
R+74.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+12.8%
1896
+2.3%
1900
−3.9%
1904
−5.1%
1908
−5.3%
1912
+17.2%
1916
+1.7%
1920
−17.4%
1924
−3.8%
1928
−13.4%
1932
+7.1%
1936
+5.3%
1940
+12.6%
1944
+16.4%
1948
+15.2%
1952
+7.1%
1956
−8.5%
1960
−12.6%
1964
+10.8%
1968
−17.0%
1972
−23.1%
1976
+5.0%
1980
−9.8%
1984
−25.4%
1988
−22.8%
1992
−9.5%
1996
−18.0%
2000
−38.6%
2004
−35.6%
2008
−37.4%
2012
−41.3%
2016
−60.3%
2020
−60.1%
2024
−63.7%
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
17.6%Harris839
81.3%Trump3,883
0.4%Oliver20
R+63.7
R+3.6
R+62.2
4,779
R
19.4%Biden905
79.5%Trump3,710
0.6%Jorgensen26
R+60.1
D+0.2
R+64.6
4,665
R
18.4%Clinton768
78.8%Trump3,283
1.8%Johnson74
R+60.3
R+19.0
R+62.4
4,168
R
28.4%Obama1,119
69.7%Romney2,750
2.0%
R+41.3
R+3.9
R+45.2
3,947
R
30.3%Obama1,265
67.7%McCain2,824
2.0%
R+37.4
R+1.7
R+44.6
4,171
R
31.9%Kerry1,272
67.5%Bush2,693
0.6%
R+35.6
D+3.0
R+33.2
3,987
R
29.9%Gore1,006
68.6%Bush2,304
1.5%
R+38.6
R+20.7
R+39.1
3,361
R
36.8%Clinton1,210
54.8%Dole1,801
8.2%Perot270
R+18.0
R+8.5
R+26.5
3,289
R
40.0%Clinton1,551
49.5%Bush1,919
10.4%Perot403
R+9.5
D+13.3
R+15.1
3,876
R
38.4%Dukakis1,313
61.2%Bush2,091
0.4%
R+22.8
D+2.7
R+15.0
3,419
R
37.2%Mondale1,494
62.6%Reagan2,514
0.1%
R+25.4
R+15.6
R+7.2
4,014
R
44.5%Carter1,608
54.2%Reagan1,961
1.3%
R+9.8
R+14.7
±0.0
3,615
D
52.3%Carter1,791
47.3%Ford1,621
0.4%
D+5.0
D+28.0
D+2.9
3,424
R
38.0%McGovern1,057
61.0%Nixon1,699
1.0%
R+23.1
R+6.1
D+0.1
2,783
R
35.4%Humphrey1,061
52.4%Nixon1,570
12.1%
R+17.0
R+27.8
R+16.3
2,994
D
55.4%Johnson1,737
44.6%Goldwater1,398
0.0%
D+10.8
D+23.4
R+11.8
3,135
R
43.7%Kennedy1,335
56.3%Nixon1,721
0.0%
R+12.6
R+4.1
R+12.8
3,056
R
45.8%Stevenson1,486
54.2%Eisenhower1,762
0.0%
R+8.5
R+15.6
D+6.9
3,248
D
53.5%Stevenson1,590
46.5%Eisenhower1,380
0.0%
D+7.1
R+8.1
D+17.8
2,970
D
56.2%Truman1,527
41.1%Dewey1,115
2.7%
D+15.2
R+1.3
D+10.7
2,715
D
58.2%Roosevelt1,889
41.8%Dewey1,356
0.0%
D+16.4
D+3.8
D+8.9
3,245
D
56.3%Roosevelt1,404
43.7%Willkie1,089
0.0%
D+12.6
D+7.3
D+2.7
2,493
D
52.6%Roosevelt1,473
47.4%Landon1,325
0.0%
D+5.3
R+1.8
R+19.0
2,798
D
53.3%Roosevelt1,364
46.2%Hoover1,183
0.4%
D+7.1
D+20.4
R+10.7
2,558
R
43.3%Smith963
56.7%Hoover1,260
0.0%
R+13.4
R+9.6
D+4.1
2,223
R
47.8%Davis841
51.6%Coolidge907
0.6%La Follette11
R+3.8
D+13.6
D+21.4
1,759
R
41.3%Cox644
58.7%Harding915
0.0%
R+17.4
R+19.1
D+8.8
1,559
D
50.9%Wilson476
49.1%Hughes460
0.0%
D+1.7
R+15.5
R+1.4
936
D
46.2%Wilson416
29.0%Taft261
24.8%
D+17.2
D+22.5
R+2.3
900
R
47.3%Bryan418
52.7%Taft465
0.0%
R+5.3
R+0.2
D+4.2
883
R
47.4%Parker362
52.6%Roosevelt401
0.0%
R+5.1
R+1.2
D+14.6
763
R
48.1%Bryan358
51.9%McKinley387
0.0%
R+3.9
R+6.1
D+3.7
745
D
51.1%Bryan363
48.9%McKinley347
0.0%
D+2.3
R+10.6
D+8.3
710
D
56.4%Cleveland339
43.6%Harrison262
0.0%
D+12.8
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D+11.2
601
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Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
18.1%639
78.8%2,791
3,540
2020
R
22.3%1,013
73.8%3,355
4,549
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+35.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+63.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 29 points more Democratic.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Graham County, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
6,561
2,562
2,840
1,156
3
2012
6,647
2,393
2,823
1,420
11
2016
6,436
2,015
2,808
1,596
17
2020
6,139
1,416
2,952
1,741
30
2022
6,104
1,209
3,022
1,843
30
2024
6,315
1,037
3,248
1,990
40
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+80 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +67 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $52,985 in average income, against $56,356 for residents who stayed — 6% 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 Graham County, NC in Graham County, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−52
2012
−87
2013
+37
2014
−71
2015
−14
2016
−34
2017
+9
2018
−26
2019
+7
2021
+37
2022
+38
2023
+28
2024
+115
2025
+80
Graham County sits in the rugged southwestern corner of North Carolina, where a small, rural population has delivered some of the state's widest presidential margins — R+63.7 in 2024 — driven by a predominantly white, working-class electorate with deep Appalachian roots.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 63.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 63.7 points.
A population of 8,072, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,684 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Scott County and Unicoi 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.
How did Graham County, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Graham County, North Carolina voted Republican by 63.7 points (R+63.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 4,779 votes cast, 839 went Democratic and 3,883 went Republican.
When did Graham County, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Graham County, North Carolina voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Graham County, North Carolina?
Graham County, North Carolina has a population of 8,072 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Graham County, North Carolina?
Median household income in Graham County, North Carolina is $49,684 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Graham County, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Graham County, North Carolina from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
