Sierra County, California

2024 results by precinct

19 precincts · 1,755 votes cast

Trump · R+24

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−24.2%	641	1,066	1,755
2020	R	−21.2%	730	1,142	1,947
2016	R	−24.1%	601	1,048	1,858
2012	R	−22.4%	653	1,056	1,799
2008	R	−20.8%	743	1,158	1,991
2004	R	−31.0%	646	1,249	1,948
2000	R	−34.2%	540	1,172	1,847
1996	R	−17.8%	573	877	1,707
1992	R	−2.0%	653	691	1,875
1988	R	−4.1%	791	860	1,696
1984	R	−15.7%	781	1,078	1,896
1980	R	−11.9%	651	855	1,718
1976	D	+10.2%	841	680	1,576
1972	D	+2.2%	658	629	1,324
1968	D	+0.9%	559	548	1,193
1964	D	+33.4%	828	413	1,241
1960	D	+5.8%	647	576	1,231
1956	R	−1.4%	620	638	1,262
1952	R	−6.7%	632	723	1,363
1948	D	+9.1%	660	546	1,258
1944	D	+19.7%	662	443	1,110
1940	D	+34.6%	1,057	511	1,578
1936	D	+53.9%	1,152	340	1,507
1932	D	+43.9%	796	292	1,147
1928	R	−4.2%	420	457	887
1924	R	−28.6%	73	276	709
1920	R	−49.6%	158	506	701
1916	D	+23.0%	594	360	1,018
1912	D	+44.5%	515	0	1,158
1908	R	−17.5%	410	600	1,083
1904	R	−34.1%	376	791	1,216
1900	R	−23.1%	436	702	1,151
1896	R	−14.4%	527	707	1,249
1892	R	−18.8%	529	787	1,370
1888	R	−18.6%	689	1,004	1,695
1884	R	−31.2%	554	1,064	1,634
1880	R	−27.9%	559	997	1,568
1876	R	−28.6%	509	917	1,426

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 54.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

1.4%

6.7%

75–84

6.8%

9.5%

65–74

10.3%

8.4%

55–64

6.1%

8.2%

45–54

6.2%

4.3%

35–44

7.1%

0.7%

25–34

0.3%

4.4%

18–24

4.8%

3.9%

5–17

10.6%

0.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$63,355

Sierra County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Sierra County$63,355

California$99,122

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

4.4%

Child poverty is below the national average.

Children under 180.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Other Christian

9.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

5.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.6%

Baptist

1.5%

Methodist

1.3%

Non-Christian

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 80.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Sierra County's roughly 3,500 residents — many tied to ranching, timber, and recreation in the northern Sierra Nevada — have backed Republican presidential candidates by double-digit margins for decades, making it a consistent outlier within a heavily Democratic state.

The Democratic margin in Sierra County peaked at fifty-four points in 1936. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was twenty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Sierra County's median household income of $63,355 sits well below state and national norms, and 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Plumas County and Wallowa County.

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Sierra County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.