Calaveras County, California

2024 results by precinct

25 precincts · 26,479 votes cast

Trump · R+28

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−28.1%	9,181	16,625	26,479
2020	R	−23.7%	10,046	16,518	27,272
2016	R	−23.7%	7,944	13,511	23,531
2012	R	−16.9%	8,670	12,365	21,862
2008	R	−12.9%	9,813	12,835	23,421
2004	R	−23.8%	8,286	13,601	22,343
2000	R	−18.6%	7,093	10,599	18,876
1996	R	−9.5%	6,646	8,279	17,206
1992	R	−0.1%	5,989	6,006	16,991
1988	R	−14.5%	5,674	7,640	13,574
1984	R	−29.9%	4,081	7,632	11,877
1980	R	−29.0%	3,076	6,054	10,275
1976	R	−1.2%	3,607	3,695	7,528
1972	R	−27.3%	2,268	4,119	6,779
1968	R	−15.6%	2,134	3,042	5,832
1964	D	+16.7%	3,145	2,244	5,397
1960	R	−5.8%	2,509	2,820	5,361
1956	R	−16.2%	2,049	2,843	4,909
1952	R	−22.9%	1,838	2,942	4,824
1948	D	+2.7%	1,995	1,888	4,037
1944	D	+13.0%	1,893	1,455	3,369
1940	D	+18.5%	2,405	1,649	4,083
1936	D	+44.1%	2,520	960	3,534
1932	D	+38.1%	1,744	754	2,599
1928	R	−8.4%	1,066	1,262	2,346
1924	R	−24.4%	333	872	2,211
1920	R	−36.3%	641	1,480	2,314
1916	D	+12.2%	1,524	1,175	2,872
1912	D	+60.5%	1,869	0	3,089
1908	R	−20.6%	833	1,323	2,382
1904	R	−27.2%	844	1,571	2,674
1900	R	−10.6%	1,288	1,600	2,931
1896	R	−0.7%	1,518	1,541	3,087
1892	R	−2.9%	1,276	1,355	2,727
1888	R	−4.9%	1,305	1,441	2,762
1884	R	−3.5%	1,164	1,249	2,424
1880	R	−0.9%	1,137	1,157	2,312
1876	D	+2.7%	936	886	1,822

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

0.8%

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: 52.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.6%

4.7%

75–84

4.5%

8.4%

65–74

9.0%

8.1%

55–64

8.8%

5.9%

45–54

5.5%

5.8%

35–44

5.3%

4.5%

25–34

4.5%

2.8%

18–24

2.6%

6.4%

5–17

6.3%

2.2%

2.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$78,647

Calaveras County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Calaveras County$78,647

California$99,122

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.0%

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

Other Christian

9.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.5%

Mainline Protestant

1.2%

Baptist

1.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.1%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Methodist

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 82.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Calaveras sits in California's Sierra Nevada foothills with a sparse, older, and predominantly white population — a demographic profile that has pushed its presidential margins roughly 28 points toward Republicans even as the state trends the other direction.

The Democratic margin in Calaveras County peaked at sixty-one points in 1912. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was twenty-eight points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Calaveras County's median household income of $78,647 sits well below state and national norms, and 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Amador County and Tehama County.

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Calaveras County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.