Wayne County, Utah

2024 results by precinct

7 precincts · 1,651 votes cast

Trump · R+52

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−51.9%	381	1,238	1,651
2020	R	−53.0%	365	1,229	1,630
2016	R	−48.7%	271	966	1,426
2012	R	−65.9%	215	1,089	1,327
2008	R	−46.0%	335	940	1,314
2004	R	−57.6%	279	1,062	1,360
2000	R	−61.3%	202	953	1,225
1996	R	−41.7%	265	741	1,142
1992	R	−38.4%	236	706	1,225
1988	R	−37.7%	353	784	1,143
1984	R	−60.9%	224	930	1,159
1980	R	−55.5%	226	835	1,098
1976	R	−23.5%	334	555	939
1972	R	−49.8%	183	597	832
1968	R	−32.3%	248	511	813
1964	D	+1.5%	412	400	812
1960	R	−7.7%	382	446	828
1956	R	−27.6%	283	499	782
1952	R	−32.2%	275	536	811
1948	D	+11.2%	460	367	831
1944	D	+13.9%	430	325	755
1940	D	+13.6%	500	380	881
1936	D	+22.6%	522	329	854
1932	D	+0.4%	401	398	808
1928	R	−36.7%	195	422	619
1924	R	−15.6%	241	331	578
1920	R	−26.9%	224	396	639
1916	D	+26.8%	393	225	627
1912	R	−18.3%	183	282	542
1908	R	−17.0%	184	279	559
1904	R	−10.1%	251	310	582
1900	R	−6.9%	282	324	612
1896	D	+67.7%	405	78	483
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
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: 46.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

0.9%

3.9%

75–84

3.3%

9.3%

65–74

7.8%

8.1%

55–64

7.5%

5.2%

45–54

6.3%

7.2%

35–44

5.5%

6.0%

25–34

4.6%

1.4%

18–24

1.5%

7.0%

5–17

8.4%

3.0%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$76,607

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

Wayne County$76,607

Utah$95,166

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

10.6%

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

74.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 23.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Wayne County's roughly 2,500 residents are spread across a vast plateau-and-canyon landscape that includes Capitol Reef National Park. It has voted Republican by lopsided margins for decades, with 2024's R+51.6 result typical of its modern pattern.

The Democratic margin in Wayne County peaked at sixty-eight points in 1896. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was fifty-two points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Wayne County's median household income of $76,607 sits well below state and national norms, and 11% 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 Iron County and Haskell County.

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