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
GroupRich CountyUtahUnited States
English39.8%28.2%9.5%
German10.9%10.0%12.5%
Danish6.7%3.9%—
Irish5.4%6.1%9.4%
Italian5.1%2.5%4.8%
Scottish4.3%3.9%1.3%
Swedish3.6%2.6%—
American3.5%3.9%5.3%
Mexican3.6%10.7%11.3%
Spaniard0.9%0.2%—
Puerto Rican0.4%0.4%1.8%
Peruvian0.4%0.5%—
Navajo0.5%0.4%—
Marshallese0.2%——
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
Rich County
Utah
United States
Median age
38.1
32.2
39.1
Age 18–24
5.6%
11.6%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.0%
11.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rich County
Utah
United States
Median household income
$79,009
$95,166
$84,427
Poverty rate
3.8%
8.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
24.4%
37.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rich County
Utah
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.6%
15.9%
22.3%
Spanish
1.4%
10.9%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rich County
Utah
United States
Catholic
—
6.5%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
2.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
0.0%
26.8%
51.5%
Latter-day Saints
100.0%
62.2%
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.
Rich County, Utah
Precinct data
Results by precinct
10 precincts · 1,447 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Rich County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -2:AA
28
247
4
279
10.0%
88.5%
R+78.5
Precinct -5:AA
53
163
7
223
23.8%
73.1%
R+49.3
Precinct -11
7
182
0
189
3.7%
96.3%
R+92.6
Precinct -3:AA
28
149
3
180
15.6%
82.8%
R+67.2
Precinct -44
50
122
3
175
28.6%
69.7%
R+41.1
Precinct -4:AA
15
97
3
115
13.0%
84.3%
R+71.3
Precinct -1:BB
10
96
2
108
9.3%
88.9%
R+79.6
Precinct -33
5
80
0
85
5.9%
94.1%
R+88.2
Precinct -55
15
39
0
54
27.8%
72.2%
R+44.4
Precinct -22
3
36
0
39
7.7%
92.3%
R+84.6
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1896–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1896
+43.2%
1900
−15.7%
1904
−29.3%
1908
−19.6%
1912
−13.5%
1916
+16.6%
1920
−33.8%
1924
−29.8%
1928
−35.4%
1932
+8.2%
1936
+11.4%
1940
+3.0%
1944
+0.1%
1948
−4.3%
1952
−38.8%
1956
−37.8%
1960
−27.4%
1964
−14.3%
1968
−45.8%
1972
−63.8%
1976
−36.4%
1980
−65.9%
1984
−71.5%
1988
−45.0%
1992
−42.4%
1996
−43.2%
2000
−64.7%
2004
−78.4%
2008
−67.3%
2012
−82.0%
2016
−62.0%
2020
−71.4%
2024
−68.9%
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
14.8%Harris214
83.7%Trump1,211
0.9%Oliver13 +3
R+68.9
D+2.5
R+67.4
1,447
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican83.7%1,211
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.8%214
Chase OliverLibertarian0.9%13
Lucifer "justin Case" EveryloveNonpartisan0.3%4
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%3
Joel SkousenIndependent0.1%2
R
13.1%Biden180
84.5%Trump1,157
1.0%Jorgensen14
R+71.4
R+9.4
R+75.8
1,369
R
9.3%Clinton104
71.3%Trump797
15.6%McMullin174
R+62.0
D+20.0
R+64.1
1,118
R
8.2%Obama83
90.1%Romney915
1.7%
R+82.0
R+14.7
R+85.8
1,015
R
15.3%Obama154
82.6%McCain831
2.1%
R+67.3
D+11.1
R+74.6
1,006
R
10.5%Kerry109
88.9%Bush922
0.6%
R+78.4
R+13.7
R+75.9
1,037
R
16.8%Gore152
81.5%Bush736
1.1%Nader10
R+64.7
R+21.5
R+65.2
903
R
22.5%Clinton179
65.7%Dole523
11.1%Perot88
R+43.2
R+0.9
R+51.7
796
R
17.6%Clinton154
59.9%Bush525
21.3%Perot187
R+42.4
D+2.6
R+47.9
876
R
27.2%Dukakis234
72.2%Bush621
0.6%
R+45.0
D+26.5
R+37.3
860
R
14.1%Mondale131
85.6%Reagan797
0.3%
R+71.5
R+5.6
R+53.3
931
R
15.2%Carter143
81.2%Reagan762
3.6%
R+65.9
R+29.6
R+56.2
939
R
30.8%Carter248
67.1%Ford541
2.1%
R+36.4
D+27.4
R+38.4
806
R
15.8%McGovern120
79.6%Nixon604
4.6%
R+63.8
R+18.0
R+40.6
759
R
24.5%Humphrey183
70.3%Nixon525
5.2%
R+45.8
R+31.5
R+45.1
747
R
42.8%Johnson326
57.2%Goldwater435
0.0%
R+14.3
D+13.1
R+36.9
761
R
36.3%Kennedy291
63.7%Nixon511
0.0%
R+27.4
D+10.4
R+27.6
802
R
31.1%Stevenson253
68.9%Eisenhower561
0.0%
R+37.8
D+0.9
R+22.4
814
R
30.6%Stevenson251
69.4%Eisenhower569
0.0%
R+38.8
R+34.5
R+28.0
820
R
47.8%Truman366
52.1%Dewey399
0.1%
R+4.3
R+4.4
R+8.8
766
D
50.1%Roosevelt395
49.9%Dewey394
0.0%
D+0.1
R+2.9
R+7.4
789
D
51.5%Roosevelt475
48.5%Willkie447
0.0%
D+3.0
R+8.3
R+6.9
922
D
55.5%Roosevelt488
44.1%Landon388
0.5%
D+11.4
D+3.2
R+12.9
880
D
54.1%Roosevelt469
45.9%Hoover398
0.0%
D+8.2
D+43.6
R+9.6
867
R
32.3%Smith224
67.7%Hoover470
0.0%
R+35.4
R+5.7
R+18.0
694
R
32.7%Davis211
62.5%Coolidge403
4.8%La Follette31
R+29.8
D+4.1
R+4.6
645
R
33.1%Cox222
66.9%Harding449
0.0%
R+33.8
R+50.4
R+7.6
671
D
58.3%Wilson454
41.7%Hughes325
0.0%
D+16.6
D+30.1
D+13.4
779
R
35.4%Wilson238
48.9%Taft329
15.8%
R+13.5
D+6.1
R+33.1
673
R
39.9%Bryan285
59.4%Taft425
0.7%
R+19.6
D+9.7
R+10.0
715
R
35.3%Parker240
64.7%Roosevelt439
0.0%
R+29.3
R+13.6
R+9.6
679
R
42.1%Bryan282
57.8%McKinley387
0.1%
R+15.7
R+58.8
R+8.1
670
D
71.6%Bryan408
28.4%McKinley162
0.0%
D+43.2
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D+49.2
570
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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
11.2%160
84.7%1,214
1,433
2022
R
0.0%0
78.7%844
1,073
2018
R
11.3%124
83.0%911
1,097
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+75.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+68.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.1 points more Republican.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−64 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +145 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $85,104 in average income, against $102,266 for residents who stayed — 17% 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 Rich County, UT in Rich County, UT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+22
2012
−76
2013
−14
2014
−7
2015
+9
2016
−13
2017
+65
2018
+34
2019
+4
2021
+80
2022
+33
2023
+8
2024
+64
2025
−64
Rich County, anchored by the small ranching and resort community of Randolph, recorded an R+68.6 margin in 2024 despite a population under 2,000, reflecting the deep Republican lean common to rural intermountain cattle country.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.2 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 82.0 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 68.9 points.
A population of 2,631, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,009 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Franklin County and Garfield 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, Rich County, Utah voted Republican by 68.9 points (R+68.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,447 votes cast, 214 went Democratic and 1,211 went Republican.
When did Rich County, Utah last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Rich County, Utah voted Democratic was 1944.
How many people live in Rich County, Utah?
Rich County, Utah has a population of 2,631 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rich County, Utah?
Median household income in Rich County, Utah is $79,009 — below the national median of $80,734. The Utah state median is $95,166.
What is the political history of Rich County, Utah?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Rich County, Utah from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
