Greeley County, Nebraska

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 1,235 votes cast

Trump · R+68

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−67.9%	192	1,030	1,235
2020	R	−62.5%	229	1,016	1,259
2016	R	−59.7%	210	912	1,175
2012	R	−40.5%	340	820	1,185
2008	R	−21.4%	458	715	1,199
2004	R	−40.4%	361	865	1,248
2000	R	−32.3%	416	839	1,310
1996	R	−13.3%	472	642	1,277
1992	R	−10.8%	435	588	1,419
1988	R	−6.5%	670	763	1,438
1984	R	−32.1%	485	948	1,442
1980	R	−32.8%	495	1,028	1,625
1976	D	+5.3%	877	787	1,709
1972	R	−13.9%	760	1,005	1,765
1968	R	−8.1%	739	882	1,763
1964	D	+25.5%	1,305	775	2,080
1960	D	+13.6%	1,263	960	2,223
1956	R	−15.3%	910	1,240	2,150
1952	R	−25.1%	924	1,543	2,467
1948	D	+20.8%	1,265	829	2,094
1944	D	+0.9%	1,265	1,242	2,507
1940	R	−0.9%	1,502	1,530	3,032
1936	D	+25.0%	1,988	1,107	3,525
1932	D	+53.8%	2,832	817	3,743
1928	D	+18.0%	2,098	1,457	3,564
1924	D	+15.3%	1,220	773	2,919
1920	R	−6.3%	1,180	1,345	2,618
1916	D	+33.4%	1,289	627	1,984
1912	D	+31.0%	913	371	1,746
1908	D	+21.1%	1,072	691	1,806
1904	R	−25.2%	447	836	1,541
1900	D	+30.8%	880	463	1,355
1896	D	+32.4%	777	396	1,176
1892	D	+13.7%	298	159	1,017
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%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

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: 44.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

2.5%

85+

2.7%

3.4%

75–84

3.5%

7.2%

65–74

6.6%

6.9%

55–64

6.9%

5.1%

45–54

4.4%

5.0%

35–44

5.6%

4.6%

25–34

6.4%

3.7%

18–24

2.2%

9.7%

5–17

7.6%

3.3%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$63,929

Greeley County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Greeley County$63,929

Nebraska$76,475

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.1%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

68.6%

Mainline Protestant

27.1%

Methodist

10.6%

Other Christian

4.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 0.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With fewer than 3,000 residents spread across the Loup River watershed, Greeley County delivers outsized Republican margins—67-plus points in 2024—typical of Nebraska's rural agricultural interior where population has declined steadily for decades.

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

The economic context is the key. Greeley County's median household income of $63,929 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 Morton County and Howard County.

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