Forest County, Pennsylvania

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 2,660 votes cast

Trump · R+44

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−44.3%	724	1,902	2,660
2020	R	−43.6%	728	1,882	2,646
2016	R	−43.7%	626	1,684	2,420
2012	R	−21.0%	896	1,383	2,324
2008	R	−13.4%	1,038	1,366	2,444
2004	R	−22.6%	989	1,571	2,573
2000	R	−23.1%	843	1,371	2,283
1996	D	+2.8%	964	902	2,201
1992	D	+4.2%	890	801	2,144
1988	R	−12.8%	895	1,159	2,065
1984	R	−27.1%	839	1,468	2,317
1980	R	−18.0%	819	1,206	2,149
1976	R	−5.4%	1,017	1,135	2,187
1972	R	−45.2%	509	1,374	1,915
1968	R	−25.5%	669	1,172	1,973
1964	D	+16.2%	1,249	900	2,154
1960	R	−28.7%	828	1,497	2,332
1956	R	−42.3%	622	1,535	2,158
1952	R	−40.9%	627	1,511	2,161
1948	R	−26.9%	687	1,209	1,941
1944	R	−32.9%	673	1,344	2,038
1940	R	−32.6%	919	1,811	2,736
1936	R	−20.3%	1,157	1,757	2,953
1932	R	−30.3%	569	1,090	1,721
1928	R	−70.3%	289	1,707	2,018
1924	R	−53.6%	280	1,130	1,587
1920	R	−34.3%	389	993	1,762
1916	R	−11.7%	463	617	1,312
1912	D	+8.5%	373	240	1,560
1908	R	−33.0%	512	1,119	1,837
1904	R	−47.0%	411	1,328	1,949
1900	R	−27.8%	714	1,309	2,137
1896	R	−19.8%	805	1,224	2,120
1892	R	−16.1%	660	938	1,727
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%

Polish

0.5%

African American

11.4%

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: 48.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

2.3%

3.9%

75–84

2.4%

8.2%

65–74

7.1%

9.6%

55–64

6.5%

9.4%

45–54

3.8%

11.0%

35–44

2.7%

17.8%

25–34

1.9%

7.9%

18–24

0.7%

2.3%

5–17

0.9%

0.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$52,191

Forest County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Forest County$52,191

Pennsylvania$77,971

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.9%

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

Other Christian

10.6%

Methodist

5.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.9%

Mainline Protestant

2.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 77.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Forest County's roughly 5,000 residents make it the smallest county in Pennsylvania by population, and its R+44.5 margin in 2024 reflects a pattern of lopsided results common to rural, heavily forested stretches of the northern tier.

The Democratic margin in Forest County peaked at sixteen points in 1964. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Forest County's median household income of $52,191 sits well below state and national norms, and 12% 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 Crow Wing County.

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Lake of the Woods County

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