Rowlesburg, WV
| Election | Margin |
|---|---|
| 2008 | R+14.4 |
| 2012 | R+45.2 |
| 2016 | R+54.8 |
| 2020 | R+55.3 |
| 2024 | R+53.3 |
Turnout is unavailable because a compatible reported ballots-cast numerator and denominator are not both present.
Akashic
| Population | 773 |
|---|---|
| Latest presidential result | R+53.3 (2024) |
| Results on record | 2004–2024 presidential |
| Median household income | $61,964 |
| County | Preston County |
| State | WV |
Place narrative
Rowlesburg's roughly 773 residents sit at a historic Baltimore & Ohio Railroad junction in the Cheat River gorge, a pattern of small extractive-economy towns that has driven some of the sharpest partisan realignments in Appalachian West Virginia over the past two decades.
Akashic
Presidential history
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Other | Candidate total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | −53.3% | 42 | 140 | 2 | 184 |
| 2020 | R | −55.3% | 42 | 151 | 4 | 197 |
| 2016 | R | −54.8% | 37 | 139 | 10 | 186 |
| 2012 | R | −45.2% | 40 | 110 | 5 | 155 |
| 2008 | R | −14.4% | 72 | 98 | 10 | 180 |
| 2004† | R | −21.5% | 67 | 104 | 1 | 172 |
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 | 96.6% |
| Black | 0.0% |
| Asian | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 0.0% |
| Income & Age | |
| Median household income | $61,964 |
| Poverty rate | 19.0% |
| Median age | 53.1 |
| Age 18–29 | 14.2% |
| Age 65 and older | 23.5% |
| Education & Language | |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher (25+) | 15.2% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 1.4% |
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 Preston County county page and the WV state page.