Deschutes County, Oregon: Realigning Affluent Suburb county. In 2024, voted D+10%. Democratic peak: D+51 in 1936.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- Realigning Affluent SuburbAkashic typology
- Population
- 206,3342024 5-year
- Median household income
- $92,7582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 87.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Chaffee County, CO · similarity 0.94
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Deschutes CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Deschutes County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | No data |
| 1916 | No data |
| 1920 | −19.0% |
| 1924 | −29.8% |
| 1928 | −24.0% |
| 1932 | +25.0% |
| 1936 | +50.6% |
| 1940 | +29.1% |
| 1944 | +19.6% |
| 1948 | +0.5% |
| 1952 | −29.0% |
| 1956 | −13.7% |
| 1960 | −3.7% |
| 1964 | +37.6% |
| 1968 | −6.6% |
| 1972 | −9.6% |
| 1976 | +2.2% |
| 1980 | −19.3% |
| 1984 | −24.6% |
| 1988 | −6.9% |
| 1992 | +0.1% |
| 1996 | −8.8% |
| 2000 | −17.4% |
| 2004 | −14.3% |
| 2008 | −0.3% |
| 2012 | −6.7% |
| 2016 | −3.3% |
| 2020 | +8.2% |
| 2024 | +10.4% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 68,108 | 54,850 | 127,375 | ||
| D | 65,962 | 55,646 | 125,234 | ||
| R | 42,444 | 45,692 | 98,557 | ||
| R | 36,961 | 42,463 | 81,900 | ||
| R | 38,819 | 39,064 | 79,782 | ||
| R | 31,179 | 41,757 | 74,048 | ||
| R | 22,061 | 32,132 | 57,885 | ||
| R | 17,151 | 21,135 | 45,282 | ||
| D | 15,693 | 15,655 | 43,918 | ||
| R | 14,264 | 16,425 | 31,366 | ||
| R | 11,671 | 19,323 | 31,066 | ||
| R | 9,641 | 15,186 | 28,715 | ||
| D | 9,480 | 9,054 | 19,382 | ||
| R | 6,319 | 7,747 | 14,819 | ||
| R | 4,859 | 5,599 | 11,230 | ||
| D | 6,947 | 3,148 | 10,095 | ||
| R | 4,776 | 5,145 | 9,944 | ||
| R | 4,102 | 5,399 | 9,501 | ||
| R | 3,174 | 5,776 | 8,986 | ||
| D | 3,499 | 3,463 | 7,163 | ||
| D | 3,807 | 2,547 | 6,426 | ||
| D | 4,775 | 2,603 | 7,453 | ||
| D | 4,278 | 1,299 | 5,884 | ||
| D | 2,962 | 1,697 | 5,055 | ||
| R | 1,702 | 2,815 | 4,628 | ||
| R | 1,015 | 2,321 | 4,378 | ||
| R | 1,072 | 1,649 | 3,040 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
19.1%
English
18.0%
Irish
14.2%
Italian
4.3%
American
3.6%
Scottish
3.3%
French
2.7%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 42.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$92,758
Deschutes County ranks in the top 10% of US counties.
Deschutes County$92,758
Oregon$83,011
United States$80,734
Deschutes County ranks in the top 10% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
8.8%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 1811.0%
Working age (18–64)8.5%
Seniors (65+)6.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
92.6%
speak English only
Spanish5.5%
Other Indo-European1.1%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.7%
Other languages0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 70.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Deschutes anchors Oregon's outdoor-recreation economy around Bend, and its rapid in-migration of remote workers and retirees has flipped a once reliably Republican county to a consistent Democratic lean by double digits.
Once reliably Republican — a margin of thirty points in 1924 at its widest — Deschutes County has trended Democratic. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved two points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was ten points.
A median household income of $92,758 — among the higher at this geographic scale — and a population of 206,334 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chaffee County and Hays County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Deschutes County, Oregon vote in 2024?
In 2024, Deschutes County, Oregon voted Democratic by 10.4 points (D+10), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 127,375 votes cast, 68,108 went Democratic and 54,850 went Republican.
What is Deschutes County, Oregon's political typology?
Akashic places Deschutes County, Oregon in the "Realigning Affluent Suburb" typology — College-educated, affluent suburbs — the one bloc moving toward the Democratic Party. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 10 times, Republican 17 times, and other 0 times.
When did Deschutes County, Oregon last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Deschutes County, Oregon voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Deschutes County, Oregon?
Deschutes County, Oregon has a population of 206,334 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Deschutes County, Oregon?
Median household income in Deschutes County, Oregon is $92,758 — above the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Deschutes County, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Deschutes County, Oregon from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 17 went Republican. The county's typology — "Realigning Affluent Suburb" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.