Ashland, PA
| Election | Margin |
|---|---|
| 2008 | D+5.8 |
| 2012 | even |
| 2016 | R+32.2 |
| 2020 | R+30.8 |
| 2024 | R+36.6 |
Turnout is unavailable because a compatible reported ballots-cast numerator and denominator are not both present.
Akashic
| Population | 2,324 |
|---|---|
| Latest presidential result | R+36.6 (2024) |
| Results on record | 2004–2024 presidential |
| Median household income | $52,708 |
| County | Schuylkill County |
| State | PA |
Place narrative
Ashland sits in Pennsylvania's hard-coal belt, where decades of deindustrialization have steadily reshaped a once reliably blue working-class electorate into one of the state's sharper swing-to-red case studies.
Akashic
Presidential history
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Other | Candidate total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | −36.6% | 331 | 719 | 9 | 1,059 |
| 2020 | R | −30.8% | 372 | 710 | 15 | 1,097 |
| 2016 | R | −32.2% | 328 | 657 | 36 | 1,021 |
| 2012 | R | Tied | 493 | 498 | 21 | 1,012 |
| 2008 | D | +5.8% | 605 | 537 | 38 | 1,180 |
| 2004† | D | +5.1% | 609 | 550 | 0 | 1,159 |
Third-party votes in 2012 are allocated from certified county totals by this place's share of each county's two-party vote — that cycle's precinct source records two-party splits.
These Census-place returns are modeled candidate-vote estimates on Census boundaries unless a row explicitly says certified. They are not automatically the official city or town return.
† 2004 sub-county results are estimated: the source reported that cycle at county or municipality level (COVID-era consolidated reporting), so block-level detail is interpolated from adjacent cycles and scaled to certified totals.
Demographics
Akashic
| Race & Ethnicity | |
|---|---|
| White | 95.7% |
| Black | 0.2% |
| Asian | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 2.0% |
| Income & Age | |
| Median household income | $52,708 |
| Poverty rate | 17.4% |
| Median age | 50.4 |
| Age 18–29 | 12.3% |
| Age 65 and older | 16.8% |
| Education & Language | |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher (25+) | 14.7% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 2.8% |
ACS 5-year survey estimates, subject to a margin of error. Race shares are single-race; Hispanic or Latino is a separate, overlapping ethnicity.
Ancestry, religious adherence, and side-by-side parent comparisons appear on the Schuylkill County county page and the PA state page.