Vermilion County, Illinois

2024 results by precinct

60 precincts · 29,549 votes cast

Trump · R+36

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−35.6%	9,254	19,777	29,549
2020	R	−32.9%	10,323	20,725	31,642
2016	R	−29.4%	10,039	19,087	30,818
2012	R	−13.2%	12,878	16,892	30,400
2008	D	+0.6%	16,246	16,054	32,872
2004	R	−11.9%	14,726	18,731	33,714
2000	R	−1.2%	15,406	15,783	32,100
1996	D	+11.2%	15,525	12,015	31,329
1992	D	+17.4%	18,383	11,703	38,461
1988	D	+2.8%	17,918	16,943	35,067
1984	R	−16.2%	16,530	22,932	39,611
1980	R	−20.4%	14,498	22,579	39,567
1976	R	−3.4%	18,438	19,751	38,546
1972	R	−26.5%	14,413	24,863	39,425
1968	R	−11.9%	16,238	21,391	43,424
1964	D	+11.9%	24,765	19,506	44,271
1960	R	−14.8%	19,702	26,571	46,342
1956	R	−19.2%	17,991	26,534	44,585
1952	R	−14.9%	18,771	25,367	44,226
1948	R	−7.9%	16,173	18,994	35,646
1944	R	−6.1%	18,387	20,794	39,454
1940	R	−0.4%	22,891	23,059	46,242
1936	D	+15.1%	25,016	18,350	44,156
1932	D	+20.6%	24,032	15,643	40,677
1928	R	−25.6%	12,728	21,616	34,717
1924	R	−34.9%	6,424	17,822	32,615
1920	R	−32.4%	8,634	18,175	29,439
1916	R	−7.6%	13,864	16,330	32,472
1912	R	−0.5%	5,576	5,655	17,533
1908	R	−27.9%	6,320	11,726	19,344
1904	R	−45.1%	3,620	11,179	16,772
1900	R	−22.2%	6,147	9,852	16,671
1896	R	−20.4%	5,749	8,767	14,825
1892	R	−15.2%	5,001	6,892	12,432
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

11.8%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

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: 41.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.3%

3.0%

75–84

3.5%

5.6%

65–74

6.2%

6.7%

55–64

6.8%

5.8%

45–54

5.4%

6.3%

35–44

5.9%

6.0%

25–34

5.7%

4.1%

18–24

3.6%

8.9%

5–17

8.6%

3.0%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$56,877

Vermilion County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Vermilion County$56,877

Illinois$83,390

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.7%

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

15.5%

Methodist

4.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.0%

Mainline Protestant

3.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

3.3%

Baptist

2.7%

Non-Christian

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 65.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Vermilion County's heavy industrial and coal-mining past produced reliably Democratic margins for decades, but the county has shifted sharply rightward over the last three election cycles, posting an R+35.6 margin in 2024.

The Democratic margin in Vermilion County peaked at twenty-one points in 1932. By 2012 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. Vermilion County's median household income of $56,877 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 Cass County and Marion County.

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