Hitchcock County, Nebraska

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 1,439 votes cast

Trump · R+78

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−77.6%	152	1,269	1,439
2020	R	−74.1%	175	1,264	1,470
2016	R	−73.0%	161	1,232	1,468
2012	R	−60.5%	274	1,178	1,495
2008	R	−47.5%	346	1,001	1,379
2004	R	−58.9%	296	1,171	1,486
2000	R	−55.0%	312	1,126	1,480
1996	R	−36.2%	409	977	1,569
1992	R	−26.9%	359	824	1,731
1988	R	−40.0%	480	1,132	1,630
1984	R	−60.4%	341	1,391	1,739
1980	R	−58.3%	329	1,474	1,963
1976	R	−6.5%	786	898	1,732
1972	R	−57.3%	364	1,339	1,703
1968	R	−44.8%	387	1,173	1,753
1964	R	−9.7%	946	1,149	2,095
1960	R	−41.3%	678	1,634	2,312
1956	R	−35.9%	741	1,570	2,311
1952	R	−50.0%	669	2,008	2,677
1948	R	−13.4%	923	1,208	2,131
1944	R	−27.9%	877	1,556	2,433
1940	R	−16.7%	1,188	1,663	2,851
1936	D	+14.9%	1,738	1,285	3,045
1932	D	+20.2%	1,772	1,168	2,983
1928	R	−48.3%	698	2,022	2,743
1924	R	−16.4%	633	987	2,155
1920	R	−28.0%	615	1,127	1,830
1916	D	+24.8%	733	435	1,203
1912	D	+32.5%	471	128	1,057
1908	R	−0.1%	632	633	1,296
1904	R	−44.1%	166	598	979
1900	D	+7.9%	528	450	992
1896	D	+7.2%	487	421	918
1892	D	+33.8%	495	76	1,238
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: 45.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.8%

85+

2.6%

2.9%

75–84

3.9%

8.2%

65–74

7.1%

7.0%

55–64

6.9%

5.4%

45–54

4.9%

5.9%

35–44

5.3%

4.8%

25–34

4.5%

3.1%

18–24

2.3%

9.3%

5–17

8.5%

3.2%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$51,567

Hitchcock County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Hitchcock County$51,567

Nebraska$76,475

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.8%

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

Methodist

15.1%

Other Christian

11.2%

Mainline Protestant

10.5%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.8%

Baptist

5.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With roughly 3,100 residents spread across the Republican Platte River shortgrass plains, Hitchcock County recorded a 78-point presidential margin in 2024—among the widest in the state and a signal of how consolidation in rural agricultural counties has accelerated over recent cycles.

The Republican margin in Hitchcock County reached its widest at seventy-eight points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was seventy-eight points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Hitchcock County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $51,567, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 2,569 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Morrill County and Furnas County.

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Hitchcock County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.