Cumberland County, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 5,501 votes cast

Trump · R+22

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−22.1%	2,117	3,335	5,501
2020	R	−14.9%	2,227	3,019	5,310
2016	R	−13.5%	2,036	2,697	4,906
2012	R	−2.3%	2,422	2,538	5,048
2008	R	−3.5%	2,255	2,418	4,724
2004	R	−15.9%	1,721	2,377	4,126
2000	R	−16.2%	1,405	1,974	3,507
1996	R	−7.6%	1,303	1,544	3,190
1992	R	−10.6%	1,284	1,643	3,384
1988	R	−26.8%	1,132	1,978	3,159
1984	R	−23.7%	1,237	2,027	3,329
1980	R	−5.3%	1,355	1,515	3,024
1976	D	+0.7%	1,302	1,284	2,757
1972	R	−16.9%	969	1,371	2,374
1968	D	+5.5%	978	844	2,432
1964	R	−11.5%	871	1,099	1,977
1960	R	−10.5%	559	691	1,262
1956	R	−17.8%	331	566	1,319
1952	R	−9.5%	574	695	1,277
1948	D	+25.2%	424	219	813
1944	D	+35.8%	463	218	685
1940	D	+42.8%	396	157	559
1936	D	+55.2%	476	136	616
1932	D	+70.2%	511	84	608
1928	D	+35.0%	442	213	655
1924	D	+69.2%	398	61	487
1920	D	+56.3%	413	114	531
1916	D	+71.9%	446	73	519
1912	D	+87.1%	362	10	404
1908	D	+69.2%	374	68	442
1904	D	+72.4%	334	51	391
1900	D	+44.3%	537	205	749
1896	R	−3.0%	618	657	1,284
1892	R	−18.1%	560	838	1,534
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

1.3%

African American

23.5%

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: 43.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

2.6%

3.9%

75–84

3.2%

6.0%

65–74

6.8%

7.8%

55–64

7.9%

4.9%

45–54

4.4%

5.6%

35–44

9.5%

6.2%

25–34

4.5%

3.3%

18–24

2.9%

9.2%

5–17

5.7%

2.6%

2.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$55,325

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

Cumberland County$55,325

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

8.5%

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

18.4%

Other Christian

16.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.9%

Methodist

3.9%

Mainline Protestant

2.8%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cumberland sits in Virginia's rural Piedmont with fewer than 10,000 residents, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+22.2 reflects a long-running pattern of lopsided results in low-density counties west of Richmond.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Cumberland County, by a five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-seven points in 1988. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Cumberland County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 64% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $55,325, and a 9% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mecklenburg County and Lee County.

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