2024 results by precinct
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38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 666 | 737 | 1,582 | |
| 2020 | D | 1,056 | 756 | 1,942 | |
| 2016 | D | 1,097 | 521 | 2,062 | |
| 2012 | D | 1,309 | 609 | 2,000 | |
| 2008 | R | 952 | 1,328 | 2,367 | |
| 2004 | R | 919 | 1,289 | 2,288 | |
| 2000 | R | 818 | 1,081 | 2,122 | |
| 1996 | D | 1,031 | 784 | 2,078 | |
| 1992 | R | 828 | 869 | 2,176 | |
| 1988 | R | 663 | 946 | 1,674 | |
| 1984 | R | 744 | 1,146 | 1,946 | |
| 1980 | D | 728 | 588 | 1,481 | |
| 1976 | D | 712 | 476 | 1,225 | |
| 1972 | R | 549 | 743 | 1,315 | |
| 1968 | R | 467 | 501 | 1,014 | |
| 1964 | D | 727 | 219 | 946 | |
| 1960 | R | 355 | 391 | 746 | |
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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: 28.8 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
$84,018
Northwest Arctic Borough ranks in the top 25% of US counties.
Northwest Arctic Borough$84,018
Alaska$92,788
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
17.9%
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 81.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Home to roughly 7,200 residents spread across roadless tundra villages, Northwest Arctic Borough is majority Iñupiaq and has trended toward closer federal contests in recent cycles, with 2024 marking a modest Republican margin of 4.2 points.
The county has voted both ways in living memory. The Democratic margin peaked at fifty-four points in 1964; the Republican margin peaked at twenty-one points in 1984. The 2024 margin of four points fits the pattern of swing.
Northwest Arctic Borough's demographics — a population of 7,441, a 10% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $84,018 — describe a Western place. The county shares the Western pattern of independence with Dillingham Census Area and Nome Census Area.
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