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
GroupPendleton CountyWest VirginiaUnited States
German34.6%14.7%12.5%
English10.9%15.7%9.5%
American5.0%9.5%5.3%
Irish3.8%12.3%9.4%
Italian2.9%4.1%4.8%
Scottish1.5%2.1%1.3%
French0.6%—1.6%
Czech0.6%——
African American†1.4%2.6%9.9%
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
Pendleton County
West Virginia
United States
Median age
50.7
42.9
39.1
Age 18–24
7.4%
8.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
29.8%
21.1%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Pendleton County
West Virginia
United States
Median household income
$64,931
$59,608
$84,427
Poverty rate
16.6%
16.7%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.5%
24.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Pendleton County
West Virginia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.2%
2.5%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Pendleton County
West Virginia
United States
Catholic
1.9%
5.6%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
23.0%
16.4%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
36.6%
62.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
32.0%
12.5%
5.2%
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.
Pendleton County, West Virginia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
9 precincts · 3,425 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Pendleton County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -55
211
596
16
823
25.6%
72.4%
R+46.8
Precinct -77
99
360
7
466
21.2%
77.3%
R+56.0
Precinct -22
98
349
10
457
21.4%
76.4%
R+54.9
Precinct -1111
76
303
7
386
19.7%
78.5%
R+58.8
Precinct -33
42
271
7
320
13.1%
84.7%
R+71.6
Precinct -88
53
250
4
307
17.3%
81.4%
R+64.2
Precinct -1414
32
192
3
227
14.1%
84.6%
R+70.5
Precinct -99
50
169
2
221
22.6%
76.5%
R+53.8
Precinct -1313
19
197
2
218
8.7%
90.4%
R+81.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+19.8%
1896
+17.3%
1900
+10.8%
1904
+11.5%
1908
+14.1%
1912
+32.9%
1916
+17.9%
1920
+6.9%
1924
+16.4%
1928
+5.8%
1932
+25.4%
1936
+18.8%
1940
+15.6%
1944
+8.4%
1948
+9.9%
1952
+3.4%
1956
+1.0%
1960
+3.2%
1964
+31.7%
1968
−1.2%
1972
−27.8%
1976
+15.0%
1980
+1.3%
1984
−16.6%
1988
−8.7%
1992
+1.0%
1996
+4.8%
2000
−25.6%
2004
−21.6%
2008
−21.4%
2012
−31.4%
2016
−51.3%
2020
−53.6%
2024
−58.6%
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
19.9%Harris680
78.5%Trump2,687
1.1%Kennedy37 +2
R+58.6
R+5.0
R+57.1
3,425
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican78.5%2,687
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic19.9%680
Robert F KennedyIndependent1.1%37
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%13
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%8
R
22.4%Biden820
76.0%Trump2,782
1.4%Jorgensen51
R+53.6
R+2.3
R+58.1
3,659
R
22.4%Clinton729
73.7%Trump2,398
2.2%Johnson73
R+51.3
R+19.9
R+53.4
3,254
R
33.0%Obama1,074
64.3%Romney2,095
2.7%
R+31.4
R+10.0
R+35.2
3,256
R
38.6%Obama1,310
59.9%McCain2,035
1.5%
R+21.4
D+0.2
R+28.6
3,395
R
39.0%Kerry1,381
60.6%Bush2,146
0.5%
R+21.6
D+4.0
R+19.1
3,544
R
36.4%Gore1,172
62.0%Bush1,996
1.1%Nader37
R+25.6
R+30.4
R+26.1
3,221
D
48.1%Clinton1,591
43.3%Dole1,431
8.3%Perot276
D+4.8
D+3.8
R+3.7
3,308
D
45.4%Clinton1,626
44.3%Bush1,589
10.1%Perot362
D+1.0
D+9.8
R+4.5
3,583
R
45.5%Dukakis1,595
54.3%Bush1,901
0.2%
R+8.7
D+7.8
R+1.0
3,503
R
41.6%Mondale1,464
58.2%Reagan2,047
0.2%
R+16.6
R+17.9
D+1.6
3,518
D
49.2%Carter1,724
47.9%Reagan1,677
2.9%
D+1.3
R+13.7
D+11.1
3,504
D
57.5%Carter2,104
42.5%Ford1,554
0.0%
D+15.0
D+42.8
D+13.0
3,658
R
36.1%McGovern1,248
63.9%Nixon2,207
0.0%
R+27.8
R+26.5
R+4.6
3,455
R
45.3%Humphrey1,643
46.5%Nixon1,687
8.2%
R+1.2
R+32.9
R+0.5
3,628
D
65.8%Johnson2,498
34.2%Goldwater1,296
0.0%
D+31.7
D+28.5
D+9.1
3,794
D
51.6%Kennedy2,057
48.4%Nixon1,930
0.0%
D+3.2
D+2.2
D+3.0
3,987
D
50.5%Stevenson1,999
49.5%Eisenhower1,959
0.0%
D+1.0
R+2.4
D+16.4
3,958
D
51.7%Stevenson1,991
48.3%Eisenhower1,859
0.0%
D+3.4
R+6.5
D+14.2
3,850
D
54.9%Truman1,944
44.9%Dewey1,592
0.2%
D+9.9
D+1.5
D+5.5
3,543
D
54.2%Roosevelt2,177
45.8%Dewey1,838
0.0%
D+8.4
R+7.2
D+0.9
4,015
D
57.8%Roosevelt2,710
42.2%Willkie1,977
0.0%
D+15.6
R+3.2
D+5.7
4,687
D
59.3%Roosevelt2,637
40.4%Landon1,800
0.3%
D+18.8
R+6.6
R+5.5
4,450
D
62.5%Roosevelt2,530
37.1%Hoover1,502
0.4%
D+25.4
D+19.6
D+7.6
4,047
D
52.9%Smith1,921
47.1%Hoover1,710
0.0%
D+5.8
R+10.6
D+23.3
3,631
D
58.1%Davis2,037
41.7%Coolidge1,462
0.3%
D+16.4
D+9.5
D+41.6
3,508
D
53.4%Cox1,814
46.5%Harding1,581
0.1%
D+6.9
R+11.0
D+33.0
3,399
D
58.7%Wilson1,276
40.9%Hughes888
0.4%
D+17.9
R+15.0
D+14.7
2,173
D
55.7%Wilson1,162
22.7%Taft475
21.6%
D+32.9
D+18.8
D+13.4
2,088
D
57.0%Bryan1,193
42.9%Taft898
0.1%
D+14.1
D+2.6
D+23.6
2,094
D
55.4%Parker1,169
43.8%Roosevelt926
0.8%
D+11.5
D+0.8
D+31.2
2,112
D
55.2%Bryan1,154
44.4%McKinley929
0.4%
D+10.8
R+6.5
D+18.3
2,092
D
58.0%Bryan1,117
40.7%McKinley784
1.2%
D+17.3
R+2.5
D+23.4
1,925
D
59.6%Cleveland1,075
39.7%Harrison717
0.7%
D+19.8
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D+18.2
1,804
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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
18.3%614
79.3%2,658
3,353
2020
R
18.9%677
79.2%2,840
3,588
2018
R
37.6%948
58.7%1,478
2,518
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+16.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+58.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 42 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+1 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −489 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $56,833 in average income, against $54,708 for residents who stayed — 4% 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 Pendleton County, WV in Pendleton County, WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−88
2012
−74
2013
−70
2014
−141
2015
−96
2016
−108
2017
+18
2018
+40
2019
−13
2021
+27
2022
+26
2023
+2
2024
−13
2025
+1
With roughly 8,200 residents spread across the Allegheny Highlands, Pendleton County recorded an R+58.6 margin in 2024, placing it among the most heavily one-sided counties in a state that has shifted sharply over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 58.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.6 points.
A population of 6,043, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,931 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of St. Clair County and Holt 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 Pendleton County, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Pendleton County, West Virginia voted Republican by 58.6 points (R+58.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,425 votes cast, 680 went Democratic and 2,687 went Republican.
When did Pendleton County, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Pendleton County, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Pendleton County, West Virginia?
Pendleton County, West Virginia has a population of 6,043 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Pendleton County, West Virginia?
Median household income in Pendleton County, West Virginia is $64,931 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Pendleton County, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Pendleton County, West Virginia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
