Custer County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

3 precincts · 3,867 votes cast

Trump · R+36

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−36.1%	1,188	2,583	3,867
2020	R	−37.5%	1,111	2,471	3,630
2016	R	−41.2%	797	2,061	3,066
2012	R	−33.9%	868	1,788	2,715
2008	R	−28.9%	912	1,672	2,629
2004	R	−37.8%	739	1,657	2,428
2000	R	−44.7%	507	1,451	2,111
1996	R	−32.5%	412	920	1,562
1992	R	−22.4%	343	651	1,375
1988	R	−40.9%	310	753	1,084
1984	R	−54.1%	241	832	1,093
1980	R	−43.9%	231	674	1,010
1976	R	−29.5%	259	491	787
1972	R	−49.2%	154	495	693
1968	R	−32.0%	204	433	716
1964	D	+6.3%	406	358	767
1960	R	−23.7%	314	509	823
1956	R	−33.8%	264	534	799
1952	R	−47.9%	231	662	899
1948	R	−17.3%	384	547	943
1944	R	−28.4%	333	601	943
1940	R	−15.9%	495	685	1,194
1936	D	+12.1%	674	526	1,220
1932	D	+26.4%	729	413	1,199
1928	R	−20.7%	389	600	1,019
1924	R	−15.3%	281	429	966
1920	R	−30.6%	289	560	885
1916	D	+12.9%	529	403	974
1912	D	+16.4%	510	347	992
1908	D	+5.3%	555	499	1,063
1904	D	+2.1%	612	587	1,207
1900	D	+26.1%	870	510	1,381
1896	D	+70.7%	986	167	1,159
1892	R	−43.3%	0	296	684
1888	R	−20.9%	374	574	955
1884	R	−17.7%	567	812	1,384
1880	R	−9.9%	1,061	1,297	2,394
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

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: 58.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.7%

4.0%

75–84

2.3%

11.7%

65–74

12.7%

10.0%

55–64

11.7%

3.9%

45–54

6.4%

4.0%

35–44

3.9%

3.6%

25–34

2.9%

3.6%

18–24

3.2%

8.7%

5–17

3.1%

0.6%

1.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$72,674

Custer County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Custer County$72,674

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.7%

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

17.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.2%

Baptist

4.8%

Mainline Protestant

4.3%

Methodist

3.4%

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

Custer County sits in the Wet Mountain Valley with barely 3,500 residents, yet it reliably posts some of the widest Republican presidential margins in Colorado — 36 points in 2024 — making it a benchmark for the state's rural-conservative baseline.

The Democratic margin in Custer County peaked at seventy-one points in 1896. By 1968 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. Custer County's median household income of $72,674 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 Teller County and Kosciusko County.

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