Rio Blanco County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 3,692 votes cast

Trump · R+64

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−63.7%	637	2,988	3,692
2020	R	−67.7%	561	3,061	3,691
2016	R	−68.3%	436	2,791	3,450
2012	R	−64.0%	568	2,724	3,369
2008	R	−56.6%	655	2,437	3,147
2004	R	−61.2%	566	2,403	3,003
2000	R	−57.5%	543	2,185	2,855
1996	R	−35.6%	731	1,697	2,715
1992	R	−15.9%	778	1,231	2,850
1988	R	−38.2%	803	1,821	2,662
1984	R	−62.5%	484	2,131	2,637
1980	R	−57.0%	462	1,971	2,647
1976	R	−37.9%	627	1,439	2,140
1972	R	−57.1%	414	1,586	2,053
1968	R	−39.5%	502	1,294	2,003
1964	D	+5.5%	1,134	1,015	2,152
1960	R	−27.3%	794	1,391	2,188
1956	R	−43.0%	635	1,593	2,229
1952	R	−43.4%	633	1,612	2,257
1948	R	−13.1%	752	981	1,751
1944	R	−32.2%	451	881	1,337
1940	R	−31.5%	530	1,021	1,559
1936	R	−16.3%	587	830	1,488
1932	D	+9.0%	826	687	1,545
1928	R	−32.8%	429	860	1,313
1924	R	−28.5%	407	766	1,259
1920	R	−26.5%	455	793	1,274
1916	D	+19.7%	702	468	1,186
1912	D	+14.8%	538	372	1,119
1908	D	+9.4%	466	384	873
1904	R	−16.9%	391	552	950
1900	D	+17.0%	391	276	675
1896	D	+79.3%	454	52	507
1892	R	−36.3%	0	127	350
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

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: 37.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

0.7%

2.6%

75–84

2.4%

5.9%

65–74

5.5%

6.9%

55–64

6.5%

4.7%

45–54

4.8%

7.2%

35–44

7.2%

7.3%

25–34

5.8%

3.7%

18–24

4.1%

9.0%

5–17

8.5%

3.5%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$65,473

Rio Blanco County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Rio Blanco County$65,473

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

8.5%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

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

20.3%

Methodist

4.9%

Baptist

2.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.9%

Mainline Protestant

1.6%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 68.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Rio Blanco's economy is anchored by oil and gas extraction in the Piceance Basin, and its sparse, rural population has delivered Republican presidential margins above 60 points in recent cycles — among the widest in the state.

The Democratic margin in Rio Blanco County peaked at seventy-nine points in 1896. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Rio Blanco County's median household income of $65,473 sits well below state and national norms, and 9% 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 Duchesne County and Lincoln County.

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