2024 results by precinct
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38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 1,418 | 1,156 | 2,834 | |
| 2020 | D | 1,922 | 1,205 | 3,338 | |
| 2016 | D | 1,666 | 936 | 3,262 | |
| 2012 | D | 2,253 | 1,078 | 3,530 | |
| 2008 | D | 1,729 | 1,619 | 3,443 | |
| 2004 | R | 1,318 | 1,661 | 3,150 | |
| 2000 | R | 1,219 | 1,639 | 3,181 | |
| 1996 | D | 1,447 | 1,212 | 2,988 | |
| 1992 | D | 1,221 | 1,148 | 3,017 | |
| 1988 | R | 994 | 1,453 | 2,540 | |
| 1984 | R | 1,059 | 1,656 | 2,779 | |
| 1980 | D | 954 | 938 | 2,163 | |
| 1976 | R | 887 | 989 | 1,933 | |
| 1972 | R | 812 | 912 | 1,840 | |
| 1968 | D | 929 | 816 | 1,847 | |
| 1964 | D | 790 | 242 | 1,032 | |
| 1960 | D | 533 | 348 | 882 | |
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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%.
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: 29.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$78,681
Nome Census Area ranks in the top 25% of US counties.
Nome Census Area$78,681
Alaska$92,788
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
21.5%
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
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 65.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Nome Census Area's electorate is majority Alaska Native, and that demographic weight consistently pulls its presidential margins toward Democrats by high single digits despite the area's geographic and economic isolation along the Bering Sea coast.
The Democratic margin in Nome Census Area reached its widest at fifty-three points in 1964. The margin in 2024 was nine points — still decisive.
Nome Census Area's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $78,681, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 9,866 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kusilvak Census Area and Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.
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