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
GroupWheeler CountyOregonUnited States
English28.1%14.1%9.5%
Irish15.9%11.1%9.4%
German13.1%16.3%12.5%
American7.4%4.3%5.3%
Scottish5.3%3.0%1.3%
French2.7%2.1%1.6%
Italian1.7%3.5%4.8%
Swedish1.6%——
Mexican3.0%11.5%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
Wheeler County
Oregon
United States
Median age
59.3
40.6
39.1
Age 18–24
4.8%
8.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
38.9%
18.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wheeler County
Oregon
United States
Median household income
$55,284
$83,011
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.8%
12.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.8%
36.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wheeler County
Oregon
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.5%
15.3%
22.3%
Spanish
3.3%
9.0%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wheeler County
Oregon
United States
Catholic
6.9%
11.3%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
8.8%
12.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
64.1%
66.9%
51.5%
Latter-day Saints
14.7%
3.5%
2.0%
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.
Wheeler County, Oregon
Precinct data
Results by precinct
3 precincts · 868 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Wheeler County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
103
256
21
380
27.1%
67.4%
R+40.3
Precinct -44
55
212
14
281
19.6%
75.4%
R+55.9
Precinct -33
52
150
5
207
25.1%
72.5%
R+47.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1900–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1900
−26.6%
1904
−45.3%
1908
−26.8%
1912
−12.4%
1916
−4.9%
1920
−56.2%
1924
−47.2%
1928
−50.2%
1932
+9.7%
1936
+13.5%
1940
−3.9%
1944
−13.5%
1948
−0.4%
1952
−21.1%
1956
−3.1%
1960
−9.7%
1964
+14.8%
1968
−19.8%
1972
−26.3%
1976
+6.0%
1980
−19.8%
1984
−33.2%
1988
−13.8%
1992
−10.5%
1996
−13.6%
2000
−45.4%
2004
−41.7%
2008
−26.7%
2012
−32.5%
2016
−53.3%
2020
−51.2%
2024
−47.0%
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
24.2%Harris210
71.2%Trump618
2.9%Kennedy25
R+47.0
D+4.2
R+45.5
868
R
22.5%Biden217
73.7%Trump711
2.6%Jorgensen25
R+51.2
D+2.1
R+55.6
965
R
18.9%Clinton155
72.2%Trump591
5.6%Johnson46
R+53.3
R+20.8
R+55.4
818
R
31.0%Obama266
63.5%Romney545
2.6%Johnson22
R+32.5
R+5.8
R+36.4
858
R
34.6%Obama281
61.3%McCain498
4.1%
R+26.7
D+15.0
R+34.0
812
R
27.8%Kerry245
69.5%Bush612
2.6%
R+41.7
D+3.7
R+39.2
880
R
24.0%Gore202
69.4%Bush584
3.2%Nader27
R+45.4
R+31.8
R+45.9
841
R
34.2%Clinton299
47.8%Dole418
13.8%Perot121
R+13.6
R+3.2
R+22.1
874
R
31.0%Clinton267
41.5%Bush357
26.4%Perot227
R+10.5
D+3.4
R+16.0
860
R
40.7%Dukakis274
54.5%Bush367
4.8%
R+13.8
D+19.3
R+6.1
673
R
33.4%Mondale253
66.6%Reagan504
0.0%
R+33.2
R+13.4
R+14.9
757
R
34.9%Carter282
54.7%Reagan442
10.4%
R+19.8
R+25.8
R+10.1
808
D
51.6%Carter402
45.6%Ford355
2.8%
D+6.0
D+32.4
D+4.0
779
R
34.0%McGovern267
60.3%Nixon474
5.7%
R+26.3
R+6.5
R+3.2
786
R
38.3%Humphrey292
58.1%Nixon443
3.5%
R+19.8
R+34.6
R+19.1
762
D
57.4%Johnson458
42.6%Goldwater340
0.0%
D+14.8
D+24.5
R+7.8
798
R
45.2%Kennedy466
54.8%Nixon566
0.0%
R+9.7
R+6.6
R+9.9
1,032
R
48.5%Stevenson569
51.5%Eisenhower605
0.0%
R+3.1
D+18.1
D+12.3
1,174
R
39.4%Stevenson468
60.5%Eisenhower719
0.1%
R+21.1
R+20.8
R+10.4
1,188
R
48.9%Truman411
49.2%Dewey414
1.9%
R+0.4
D+13.2
R+4.8
841
R
43.0%Roosevelt414
56.5%Dewey544
0.4%
R+13.5
R+9.6
R+21.0
962
R
47.9%Roosevelt652
51.8%Willkie705
0.2%
R+3.9
R+17.4
R+13.8
1,360
D
55.7%Roosevelt663
42.2%Landon502
2.1%
D+13.5
D+3.8
R+10.7
1,190
D
54.2%Roosevelt632
44.5%Hoover519
1.2%
D+9.7
D+59.9
R+8.1
1,165
R
24.8%Smith224
75.1%Hoover677
0.1%
R+50.2
R+3.1
R+32.8
902
R
21.3%Davis213
68.4%Coolidge685
10.3%La Follette103
R+47.2
D+9.0
R+22.0
1,001
R
20.4%Cox212
76.6%Harding797
3.1%
R+56.2
R+51.3
R+30.0
1,041
R
46.9%Wilson570
51.7%Hughes629
1.4%
R+4.9
D+7.5
R+8.0
1,216
R
32.4%Wilson222
44.8%Taft307
22.9%
R+12.4
D+14.5
R+31.9
686
R
34.8%Bryan236
61.7%Taft418
3.5%
R+26.8
D+18.5
R+17.3
678
R
24.2%Parker161
69.6%Roosevelt462
6.2%
R+45.3
R+18.7
R+25.7
664
R
35.4%Bryan243
62.0%McKinley426
2.6%
R+26.6
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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
29.4%237
67.7%546
807
2020
R
28.1%262
69.3%646
932
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+32.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+47.0
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 14 points more Democratic.
1,034 registered voters · 2024 · down from 1,080 in 2022
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+29 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +47 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $69,457 in average income, against $48,298 for residents who stayed — 44% higher. (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 Wheeler County, OR in Wheeler County, OR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−19
2012
+12
2013
−26
2014
−25
2015
−6
2016
−4
2017
+36
2018
+12
2019
−11
2021
+5
2022
+3
2023
+14
2024
+27
2025
+29
Wheeler County's roughly 1,500 residents make it one of the smallest electorates in Oregon, yet it consistently produces some of the state's widest presidential margins, reflecting the deep conservative lean of Oregon's high-desert ranching interior.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 56.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.0 points.
A population of 1,485, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,284 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Adams County and Boise 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, Wheeler County, Oregon voted Republican by 47.0 points (R+47.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 868 votes cast, 210 went Democratic and 618 went Republican.
When did Wheeler County, Oregon last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wheeler County, Oregon voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Wheeler County, Oregon?
Wheeler County, Oregon has a population of 1,485 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wheeler County, Oregon?
Median household income in Wheeler County, Oregon is $55,284 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Wheeler County, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Wheeler County, Oregon from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
