Modoc County, California

2024 results by precinct

21 precincts · 4,027 votes cast

Trump · R+47

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−46.6%	1,008	2,884	4,027
2020	R	−44.9%	1,150	3,109	4,367
2016	R	−47.3%	877	2,696	3,843
2012	R	−41.5%	1,111	2,777	4,019
2008	R	−37.7%	1,313	2,981	4,420
2004	R	−46.7%	1,149	3,235	4,467
2000	R	−49.3%	945	2,969	4,107
1996	R	−21.3%	1,368	2,285	4,303
1992	R	−6.8%	1,489	1,803	4,625
1988	R	−27.4%	1,416	2,518	4,017
1984	R	−41.2%	1,219	2,995	4,310
1980	R	−38.3%	1,046	2,579	4,000
1976	R	−4.9%	1,733	1,917	3,744
1972	R	−22.8%	1,271	2,085	3,565
1968	R	−13.7%	1,264	1,713	3,267
1964	D	+17.5%	1,972	1,386	3,358
1960	R	−4.2%	1,691	1,839	3,550
1956	R	−6.8%	1,729	1,981	3,723
1952	R	−22.9%	1,548	2,475	4,047
1948	D	+4.0%	1,607	1,480	3,180
1944	D	+8.9%	1,540	1,288	2,837
1940	D	+23.7%	2,232	1,371	3,630
1936	D	+30.4%	1,828	968	2,831
1932	D	+41.4%	1,643	655	2,386
1928	R	−13.9%	711	942	1,660
1924	R	−21.4%	374	731	1,672
1920	R	−28.8%	535	992	1,585
1916	D	+21.6%	1,222	768	2,098
1912	D	+54.9%	941	0	1,714
1908	R	−3.7%	574	620	1,242
1904	R	−11.1%	444	559	1,037
1900	D	+8.6%	532	446	996
1896	D	+31.7%	588	300	909
1892	D	+16.6%	596	406	1,145
1888	D	+9.9%	679	552	1,278
1884	D	+11.7%	609	478	1,120
1880	D	+8.8%	490	410	906
1876	D	+21.5%	322	208	530

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: 47.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.1%

85+

3.4%

4.8%

75–84

3.2%

10.6%

65–74

8.5%

6.1%

55–64

6.8%

4.7%

45–54

4.3%

4.8%

35–44

4.7%

5.9%

25–34

5.7%

3.1%

18–24

3.2%

5.8%

5–17

8.7%

2.2%

2.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$59,455

Modoc County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Modoc County$59,455

California$99,122

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

Other Christian

15.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

9.3%

Baptist

5.6%

Mainline Protestant

1.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.2%

Non-Christian

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 66.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Modoc's high-desert ranching economy and sparse population of under 10,000 produced a 46-point Republican presidential margin in 2024—the widest of any county in a state that voted heavily Democratic statewide.

The Democratic margin in Modoc County peaked at fifty-five points in 1912. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-seven points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Modoc County's median household income of $59,455 sits well below state and national norms, and 18% 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 Custer County and Fremont County.

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