Shasta County, California

2024 results by precinct

66 precincts · 88,919 votes cast

Trump · R+36

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−36.4%	27,130	59,539	88,919
2020	R	−33.1%	30,000	60,789	92,930
2016	R	−36.4%	22,301	51,778	81,024
2012	R	−29.1%	25,819	48,067	76,501
2008	R	−25.8%	28,867	49,588	80,390
2004	R	−35.9%	24,339	52,249	77,731
2000	R	−34.8%	20,127	43,278	66,544
1996	R	−22.1%	20,848	34,736	62,961
1992	R	−9.6%	21,605	28,190	68,359
1988	R	−20.6%	21,171	32,402	54,585
1984	R	−25.9%	19,298	33,041	53,127
1980	R	−25.7%	15,364	27,547	47,418
1976	D	+5.1%	19,200	17,273	37,854
1972	D	+1.7%	17,214	16,618	35,603
1968	D	+9.2%	14,510	11,821	29,230
1964	D	+35.1%	19,142	9,178	28,350
1960	D	+21.5%	14,691	9,462	24,301
1956	D	+11.9%	11,239	8,833	20,149
1952	R	−12.5%	7,386	9,507	17,013
1948	D	+17.2%	7,177	5,010	12,623
1944	D	+18.0%	5,798	4,023	9,843
1940	D	+37.3%	8,662	3,909	12,733
1936	D	+41.0%	5,236	2,159	7,510
1932	D	+48.2%	4,170	1,382	5,782
1928	R	−6.3%	2,025	2,301	4,408
1924	R	−29.1%	598	1,951	4,651
1920	R	−31.8%	1,028	2,108	3,396
1916	D	+15.2%	2,828	2,008	5,398
1912	D	+43.6%	2,040	0	4,684
1908	R	−12.6%	1,389	1,891	3,972
1904	R	−27.9%	935	1,891	3,432
1900	D	+7.1%	1,948	1,681	3,761
1896	D	+22.5%	1,936	1,210	3,222
1892	R	−3.4%	1,137	1,234	2,885
1888	R	−3.3%	1,394	1,490	2,939
1884	R	−5.8%	1,042	1,173	2,276
1880	D	+0.5%	877	868	1,755
1876	D	+1.3%	641	625	1,226

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: 41.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.4%

2.9%

75–84

3.6%

5.9%

65–74

6.7%

6.5%

55–64

7.0%

5.4%

45–54

5.5%

6.3%

35–44

6.4%

6.3%

25–34

6.2%

3.8%

18–24

3.6%

8.4%

5–17

7.9%

2.6%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$72,636

Shasta County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Shasta County$72,636

California$99,122

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.3%

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

28.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

7.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.2%

Mainline Protestant

1.0%

Baptist

0.5%

Methodist

0.5%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 61.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Shasta County, anchored by Redding in the northern Sacramento Valley, has delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 30 points in each of the last three cycles, making it a consistent outlier within a heavily Democratic state.

The Democratic margin in Shasta County peaked at forty-eight points in 1932. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-six points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Shasta County's median household income of $72,636 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 Fergus County and Lemhi County.

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