Crow Wing County, Minnesota

2024 results by precinct

62 precincts · 42,366 votes cast

Trump · R+31

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−31.3%	14,173	27,423	42,366
2020	R	−29.7%	13,726	25,676	40,173
2016	R	−31.5%	10,982	22,287	35,842
2012	R	−13.3%	14,760	19,415	34,920
2008	R	−7.7%	15,859	18,567	35,165
2004	R	−15.2%	14,005	19,106	33,545
2000	R	−13.4%	11,255	15,035	28,128
1996	D	+4.3%	11,156	10,095	24,963
1992	R	−0.9%	8,896	9,112	24,539
1988	R	−6.4%	9,674	11,017	20,911
1984	R	−13.1%	8,719	11,362	20,232
1980	R	−7.0%	9,323	10,844	21,677
1976	D	+13.2%	10,653	8,072	19,564
1972	R	−8.7%	7,328	8,774	16,551
1968	D	+4.9%	7,411	6,687	14,795
1964	D	+28.3%	9,197	5,131	14,349
1960	R	−6.1%	6,835	7,727	14,614
1956	R	−9.0%	5,556	6,657	12,243
1952	R	−8.6%	5,883	6,992	12,956
1948	D	+17.5%	6,773	4,702	11,845
1944	D	+10.0%	5,504	4,500	10,067
1940	D	+10.8%	6,876	5,524	12,550
1936	D	+27.6%	6,561	3,611	10,673
1932	D	+11.2%	5,068	3,991	9,578
1928	R	−37.8%	2,851	6,436	9,483
1924	R	−45.1%	417	4,230	8,449
1920	R	−55.9%	1,077	5,262	7,481
1916	R	−3.8%	1,568	1,715	3,861
1912	D	+0.5%	709	691	3,297
1908	R	−36.1%	661	1,681	2,829
1904	R	−65.1%	333	2,150	2,792
1900	R	−37.2%	804	1,803	2,682
1896	R	−22.2%	1,066	1,701	2,866
1892	D	+23.0%	916	519	1,725
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: 45.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.8%

3.3%

75–84

3.9%

7.1%

65–74

7.1%

7.5%

55–64

7.7%

5.6%

45–54

5.3%

6.1%

35–44

5.7%

5.3%

25–34

5.2%

3.4%

18–24

3.2%

8.0%

5–17

7.6%

2.3%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$72,589

Crow Wing County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Crow Wing County$72,589

Minnesota$89,062

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.9%

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

Mainline Protestant

19.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

16.3%

Other Christian

4.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.8%

Methodist

1.1%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Baptist

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Home to Brainerd and hundreds of recreational lakes, Crow Wing draws retirees and seasonal residents whose presence has reinforced a rural conservative lean that now clears 30 points in presidential cycles.

The Democratic margin in Crow Wing County peaked at twenty-eight points in 1964. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-one points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Crow Wing County's median household income of $72,589 sits well below state and national norms, and 10% 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 Lake of the Woods County and Stearns County.

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Lake of the Woods County

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