Trimble County, Kentucky

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 4,249 votes cast

Trump · R+56

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−55.5%	923	3,283	4,249
2020	R	−51.3%	1,012	3,227	4,320
2016	R	−49.8%	879	2,771	3,798
2012	R	−22.0%	1,355	2,133	3,543
2008	R	−19.8%	1,484	2,239	3,812
2004	R	−23.9%	1,428	2,332	3,790
2000	R	−21.3%	1,181	1,837	3,081
1996	D	+9.6%	1,245	999	2,568
1992	D	+23.7%	1,413	789	2,631
1988	D	+10.6%	1,342	1,083	2,440
1984	R	−12.1%	1,088	1,389	2,490
1980	D	+27.3%	1,478	824	2,392
1976	D	+49.7%	1,568	517	2,113
1972	R	−10.4%	757	935	1,712
1968	D	+27.1%	1,045	511	1,967
1964	D	+73.0%	1,881	292	2,178
1960	D	+36.2%	1,587	743	2,330
1956	D	+55.7%	1,792	506	2,310
1952	D	+66.3%	1,855	370	2,240
1948	D	+78.9%	1,746	194	1,968
1944	D	+74.8%	1,916	264	2,210
1940	D	+77.4%	1,909	242	2,155
1936	D	+71.3%	1,659	271	1,948
1932	D	+77.6%	2,083	257	2,354
1928	D	+39.3%	1,317	573	1,895
1924	D	+66.5%	1,676	335	2,017
1920	D	+69.7%	2,057	361	2,434
1916	D	+66.1%	1,319	259	1,604
1912	D	+68.6%	1,183	163	1,487
1908	D	+57.5%	1,322	344	1,700
1904	D	+54.7%	1,275	360	1,673
1900	D	+52.9%	1,437	437	1,890
1896	D	+48.6%	1,267	418	1,747
1892	D	+60.1%	1,149	264	1,473
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%

African American

0.9%

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: 43.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.1%

85+

0.5%

3.2%

75–84

3.5%

5.2%

65–74

6.0%

8.6%

55–64

7.5%

6.6%

45–54

6.7%

5.1%

35–44

6.1%

6.6%

25–34

6.2%

3.8%

18–24

3.2%

8.2%

5–17

8.1%

3.5%

1.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$66,027

Trimble County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Trimble County$66,027

Kentucky$63,726

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.3%

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

Baptist

25.2%

Methodist

6.0%

Other Christian

5.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 61.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Trimble County sits along the Ohio River with a population under 9,000, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+55.5 reflects a broader rural Kentucky shift that has accelerated over the past three election cycles.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Trimble County peaked at seventy-nine points in 1948; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2000 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty-one points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Trimble County's median household income of $66,027 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Henry County and Oregon County.

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For one hundred four years, Trimble County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.