Haywood County, North Carolina

2024 results by precinct

29 precincts · 37,851 votes cast

Trump · R+25

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−25.0%	13,913	23,393	37,851
2020	R	−26.5%	13,144	22,834	36,542
2016	R	−27.5%	10,473	18,929	30,727
2012	R	−13.6%	11,833	15,633	27,974
2008	R	−7.8%	12,730	14,910	28,067
2004	R	−12.8%	11,237	14,545	25,932
2000	D	+10.4%	12,118	9,793	22,273
1996	D	+6.8%	9,350	7,995	20,069
1992	D	+14.7%	10,385	7,292	21,009
1988	D	+0.3%	9,010	8,957	18,028
1984	R	−12.1%	7,958	10,146	18,131
1980	D	+14.9%	9,814	7,217	17,462
1976	D	+28.9%	10,692	5,885	16,648
1972	R	−32.0%	4,515	8,903	13,731
1968	R	−3.2%	5,703	6,205	15,806
1964	D	+31.3%	10,664	5,575	16,239
1960	R	−3.2%	8,044	8,583	16,627
1956	D	+4.4%	7,598	6,955	14,553
1952	D	+17.7%	8,761	6,124	14,885
1948	D	+45.7%	7,373	2,684	10,266
1944	D	+45.3%	7,755	2,919	10,674
1940	D	+57.1%	8,631	2,357	10,988
1936	D	+42.1%	8,175	3,331	11,506
1932	D	+37.4%	6,790	3,082	9,906
1928	R	−3.5%	4,173	4,472	8,645
1924	D	+30.5%	4,582	2,440	7,030
1920	D	+17.0%	4,229	3,000	7,229
1916	D	+22.4%	2,403	1,523	3,926
1912	D	+52.1%	2,068	354	3,289
1908	D	+19.9%	1,952	1,304	3,258
1904	D	+18.4%	1,631	1,125	2,756
1900	D	+15.9%	1,735	1,257	3,011
1896	D	+29.1%	1,901	1,039	2,967
1892	D	+21.6%	1,525	959	2,616
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: 47.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

2.0%

4.0%

75–84

4.2%

6.9%

65–74

7.8%

7.0%

55–64

7.9%

5.9%

45–54

6.4%

5.4%

35–44

5.6%

6.1%

25–34

5.7%

3.3%

18–24

3.2%

7.0%

5–17

6.4%

2.2%

2.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$61,912

Haywood County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Haywood County$61,912

North Carolina$72,388

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

Baptist

35.5%

Methodist

12.7%

Other Christian

6.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.4%

Mainline Protestant

1.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.8%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Haywood sits in the Blue Ridge highlands west of Asheville, and its heavily rural, working-class white electorate has shifted the presidential margin rightward by roughly 20 points over the past four election cycles.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in Haywood County, by a thirteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at thirty-two points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Haywood County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 91% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $61,912, and a 13% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dickson County and Duplin County.

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Haywood County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.