Bland County, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

7 precincts · 3,555 votes cast

Trump · R+70

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−69.6%	524	2,998	3,555
2020	R	−68.2%	532	2,903	3,479
2016	R	−67.5%	453	2,573	3,139
2012	R	−47.8%	735	2,144	2,948
2008	R	−39.4%	864	2,031	2,959
2004	R	−39.0%	846	1,962	2,865
2000	R	−33.8%	851	1,759	2,688
1996	R	−9.0%	939	1,167	2,537
1992	R	−13.0%	1,001	1,368	2,832
1988	R	−24.3%	937	1,556	2,546
1984	R	−35.1%	867	1,812	2,693
1980	R	−11.8%	1,002	1,278	2,345
1976	R	−4.3%	961	1,047	2,017
1972	R	−43.1%	527	1,352	1,914
1968	R	−20.3%	560	938	1,862
1964	D	+8.5%	851	717	1,570
1960	R	−1.6%	822	848	1,671
1956	R	−15.4%	813	1,113	1,947
1952	R	−14.7%	743	1,000	1,748
1948	R	−5.2%	738	822	1,628
1944	D	+1.2%	762	744	1,506
1940	D	+4.1%	753	693	1,449
1936	D	+9.5%	778	642	1,425
1932	D	+16.7%	783	556	1,356
1928	R	−17.9%	575	826	1,401
1924	R	−0.4%	604	609	1,219
1920	R	−8.5%	403	478	881
1916	R	−8.2%	356	420	780
1912	D	+13.5%	289	206	615
1908	R	−7.8%	339	397	740
1904	R	−9.0%	339	407	753
1900	D	+4.9%	513	465	981
1896	D	+12.4%	498	388	887
1892	D	+36.4%	501	159	939
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

3.4%

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: 48.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

1.8%

4.4%

75–84

4.0%

7.2%

65–74

7.2%

7.4%

55–64

7.3%

9.0%

45–54

4.3%

10.2%

35–44

5.9%

6.7%

25–34

4.5%

3.5%

18–24

2.5%

5.3%

5–17

5.2%

1.3%

2.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$61,216

Bland County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Bland County$61,216

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.6%

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

15.8%

Other Christian

5.3%

Baptist

3.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 71.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

This small Appalachian county in Virginia's western ridge-and-valley terrain recorded an R+69.7 presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most one-sided counties in the state despite a population under 7,000.

The Democratic margin in Bland County peaked at thirty-six points in 1892. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Bland County's median household income of $61,216 sits well below state and national norms, and 14% 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 Putnam County and Mineral County.

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