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
GroupWayne CountyUtahUnited States
English23.8%28.2%9.5%
Danish12.1%3.9%—
German11.9%10.0%12.5%
Welsh8.3%——
Irish4.6%6.1%9.4%
American4.6%3.9%5.3%
Scottish4.1%3.9%1.3%
Dutch1.5%——
Mexican1.4%10.7%11.3%
Spanish1.4%0.4%—
Puerto Rican0.2%0.4%1.8%
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
Wayne County
Utah
United States
Median age
46
32.2
39.1
Age 18–24
2.9%
11.6%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
25.5%
11.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wayne County
Utah
United States
Median household income
$76,607
$95,166
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.6%
8.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
27.7%
37.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wayne County
Utah
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.7%
15.9%
22.3%
Other Indo-European
2.9%
1.2%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wayne County
Utah
United States
Catholic
2.0%
6.5%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
2.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
23.9%
26.8%
51.5%
Latter-day Saints
74.1%
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.
Wayne County, Utah
Precinct data
Results by precinct
7 precincts · 1,649 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Wayne County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -LO02LO02
32
327
8
367
8.7%
89.1%
R+80.4
Precinct -TO06TO06
149
130
8
287
51.9%
45.3%
D+6.6
Precinct -BI04BI04
52
227
4
283
18.4%
80.2%
R+61.8
Precinct -TE05TE05
86
128
9
223
38.6%
57.4%
R+18.8
Precinct -LY03LY03
15
169
1
185
8.1%
91.4%
R+83.2
Precinct -FR01FR01
20
135
2
157
12.7%
86.0%
R+73.2
Precinct -HA07HA07
27
120
0
147
18.4%
81.6%
R+63.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1896–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1896
+67.7%
1900
−6.9%
1904
−10.1%
1908
−17.0%
1912
−18.3%
1916
+26.8%
1920
−26.9%
1924
−15.6%
1928
−36.7%
1932
+0.4%
1936
+22.6%
1940
+13.6%
1944
+13.9%
1948
+11.2%
1952
−32.2%
1956
−27.6%
1960
−7.7%
1964
+1.5%
1968
−32.3%
1972
−49.8%
1976
−23.5%
1980
−55.5%
1984
−60.9%
1988
−37.7%
1992
−38.4%
1996
−41.7%
2000
−61.3%
2004
−57.6%
2008
−46.0%
2012
−65.9%
2016
−48.7%
2020
−53.0%
2024
−51.9%
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
23.1%Harris381
75.0%Trump1,238
0.6%Skousen10 +5
R+51.9
D+1.1
R+50.4
1,651
All 8 candidates in 2024 · 6 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican75.0%1,238
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic23.1%381
Joel SkousenIndependent0.6%10
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%8
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.4%6
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%5
Claudia De La CruzNonpartisan0.1%2
Lucifer "justin Case" EveryloveNonpartisan0.1%1
R
22.4%Biden365
75.4%Trump1,229
0.6%Jorgensen9
R+53.0
R+4.3
R+57.5
1,630
R
19.0%Clinton271
67.7%Trump966
9.5%McMullin135
R+48.7
D+17.1
R+50.8
1,426
R
16.2%Obama215
82.1%Romney1,089
1.7%
R+65.9
R+19.8
R+69.7
1,327
R
25.5%Obama335
71.5%McCain940
3.0%
R+46.0
D+11.5
R+53.3
1,314
R
20.5%Kerry279
78.1%Bush1,062
1.4%
R+57.6
D+3.7
R+55.1
1,360
R
16.5%Gore202
77.8%Bush953
4.7%Nader58
R+61.3
R+19.6
R+61.8
1,225
R
23.2%Clinton265
64.9%Dole741
10.6%Perot121
R+41.7
R+3.3
R+50.2
1,142
R
19.3%Clinton236
57.6%Bush706
20.5%Perot251
R+38.4
R+0.7
R+43.9
1,225
R
30.9%Dukakis353
68.6%Bush784
0.5%
R+37.7
D+23.2
R+30.0
1,143
R
19.3%Mondale224
80.2%Reagan930
0.4%
R+60.9
R+5.5
R+42.7
1,159
R
20.6%Carter226
76.0%Reagan835
3.4%
R+55.5
R+31.9
R+45.7
1,098
R
35.6%Carter334
59.1%Ford555
5.3%
R+23.5
D+26.2
R+25.6
939
R
22.0%McGovern183
71.8%Nixon597
6.3%
R+49.8
R+17.4
R+26.6
832
R
30.5%Humphrey248
62.9%Nixon511
6.6%
R+32.3
R+33.8
R+31.7
813
D
50.7%Johnson412
49.3%Goldwater400
0.0%
D+1.5
D+9.2
R+21.1
812
R
46.1%Kennedy382
53.9%Nixon446
0.0%
R+7.7
D+19.9
R+7.9
828
R
36.2%Stevenson283
63.8%Eisenhower499
0.0%
R+27.6
D+4.6
R+12.2
782
R
33.9%Stevenson275
66.1%Eisenhower536
0.0%
R+32.2
R+43.4
R+21.4
811
D
55.4%Truman460
44.2%Dewey367
0.5%
D+11.2
R+2.7
D+6.7
831
D
57.0%Roosevelt430
43.0%Dewey325
0.0%
D+13.9
D+0.3
D+6.4
755
D
56.8%Roosevelt500
43.1%Willkie380
0.1%
D+13.6
R+9.0
D+3.7
881
D
61.1%Roosevelt522
38.5%Landon329
0.4%
D+22.6
D+22.2
R+1.7
854
D
49.6%Roosevelt401
49.3%Hoover398
1.1%
D+0.4
D+37.0
R+17.4
808
R
31.5%Smith195
68.2%Hoover422
0.3%
R+36.7
R+21.1
R+19.2
619
R
41.7%Davis241
57.3%Coolidge331
1.0%La Follette6
R+15.6
D+11.3
D+9.6
578
R
35.1%Cox224
62.0%Harding396
3.0%
R+26.9
R+53.7
R+0.7
639
D
62.7%Wilson393
35.9%Hughes225
1.4%
D+26.8
D+45.1
D+23.7
627
R
33.8%Wilson183
52.0%Taft282
14.2%
R+18.3
R+1.3
R+37.8
542
R
32.9%Bryan184
49.9%Taft279
17.2%
R+17.0
R+6.9
R+7.4
559
R
43.1%Parker251
53.3%Roosevelt310
3.6%
R+10.1
R+3.3
D+9.5
582
R
46.1%Bryan282
52.9%McKinley324
1.0%
R+6.9
R+74.6
D+0.7
612
D
83.9%Bryan405
16.1%McKinley78
0.0%
D+67.7
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D+73.8
483
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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
20.2%326
73.8%1,194
1,617
2022
O
0.0%0
34.6%1,056
3,055
2018
R
19.7%267
73.7%998
1,355
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+64.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+51.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 12 points more Republican.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−24 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −86 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $55,381 in average income, against $71,166 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 Wayne County, UT in Wayne County, UT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−47
2012
−48
2013
−1
2014
−23
2015
−15
2016
−24
2017
+17
2018
−49
2019
+28
2021
+60
2022
+71
2023
−17
2024
−14
2025
−24
Wayne County's roughly 2,500 residents are spread across a vast plateau-and-canyon landscape that includes Capitol Reef National Park. It has voted Republican by lopsided margins for decades, with 2024's R+51.6 result typical of its modern pattern.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 65.9 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.9 points.
A population of 2,584, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,607 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Garfield County and Kane 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, Wayne County, Utah voted Republican by 51.9 points (R+51.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,651 votes cast, 381 went Democratic and 1,238 went Republican.
When did Wayne County, Utah last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wayne County, Utah voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Wayne County, Utah?
Wayne County, Utah has a population of 2,584 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wayne County, Utah?
Median household income in Wayne County, Utah is $76,607 — below the national median of $80,734. The Utah state median is $95,166.
What is the political history of Wayne County, Utah?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Wayne County, Utah from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
