Brevard County, Florida

2024 results by precinct

150 precincts · 361,351 votes cast

Trump · R+21

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−20.8%	141,166	216,502	361,351
2020	R	−16.4%	148,549	207,883	360,764
2016	R	−19.8%	119,679	181,848	314,752
2012	R	−12.7%	122,993	159,300	285,559
2008	R	−10.4%	127,620	157,589	287,859
2004	R	−16.1%	110,309	153,068	265,462
2000	R	−8.2%	97,341	115,253	218,488
1996	R	−3.9%	80,445	88,022	195,133
1992	R	−12.0%	61,091	84,585	195,860
1988	R	−41.5%	43,004	104,854	149,159
1984	R	−46.9%	36,985	102,477	139,511
1980	R	−26.3%	39,007	69,460	115,636
1976	D	+2.1%	46,421	44,470	92,364
1972	R	−57.6%	16,854	62,773	79,733
1968	R	−24.4%	18,281	37,124	77,314
1964	D	+0.6%	24,833	24,551	49,384
1960	R	−22.7%	11,069	17,585	28,654
1956	R	−43.6%	3,928	10,004	13,932
1952	R	−23.8%	4,157	6,756	10,913
1948	D	+0.6%	2,348	2,315	5,564
1944	D	+20.0%	2,651	1,769	4,420
1940	D	+20.3%	2,995	1,984	4,979
1936	D	+33.4%	2,300	1,147	3,447
1932	D	+31.9%	1,852	956	2,808
1928	R	−26.0%	1,063	1,830	2,946
1924	D	+23.7%	872	515	1,505
1920	D	+14.0%	894	659	1,677
1916	D	+46.3%	599	174	918
1912	D	+50.2%	357	61	590
1908	D	+11.9%	294	225	579
1904	D	+60.2%	553	125	711
1900	D	+56.2%	513	121	698
1896	D	+18.6%	505	337	902
1892	D	+88.7%	449	0	506
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	D	+47.1%	306	110	416
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%

African American

8.0%

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

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: 46.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.8%

3.6%

75–84

4.1%

6.6%

65–74

7.2%

7.6%

55–64

8.2%

5.7%

45–54

6.0%

5.7%

35–44

5.8%

5.9%

25–34

5.6%

3.7%

18–24

3.3%

7.0%

5–17

6.7%

2.2%

2.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$78,476

Brevard County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Brevard County$78,476

Florida$74,568

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

10.2%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

18.2%

Other Christian

12.4%

Baptist

4.7%

Methodist

2.5%

Mainline Protestant

1.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.3%

Non-Christian

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 57.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Home to Kennedy Space Center and a dense concentration of defense contractors, Brevard's highly educated technical workforce coexists with a retiree population that has pushed its presidential margins consistently rightward over the past decade.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Brevard County, by a twenty-six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-eight points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-one points.

The political shift has tracked, in Brevard County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 73% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $78,476, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Putnam County and Manatee County.

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Brevard County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.