Orange County, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

12 precincts · 22,353 votes cast

Trump · R+25

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−24.6%	8,274	13,764	22,353
2020	R	−21.4%	7,995	12,426	20,742
2016	R	−26.4%	5,957	10,521	17,267
2012	R	−14.5%	6,870	9,244	16,354
2008	R	−8.9%	7,107	8,506	15,801
2004	R	−21.1%	5,015	7,749	12,928
2000	R	−17.8%	4,126	5,991	10,483
1996	R	−9.5%	3,590	4,435	8,908
1992	R	−8.3%	3,348	4,092	8,966
1988	R	−24.6%	2,592	4,319	7,015
1984	R	−32.2%	2,285	4,483	6,821
1980	R	−15.6%	2,420	3,381	6,158
1976	R	−4.7%	2,309	2,549	5,161
1972	R	−44.4%	884	2,332	3,258
1968	R	−23.2%	879	1,727	3,661
1964	R	−18.0%	988	1,423	2,418
1960	R	−11.7%	1,108	1,413	2,603
1956	R	−21.9%	794	1,344	2,510
1952	R	−24.8%	916	1,525	2,453
1948	D	+7.0%	856	726	1,852
1944	D	+26.6%	1,199	694	1,896
1940	D	+46.6%	1,283	464	1,759
1936	D	+50.4%	1,227	402	1,636
1932	D	+60.2%	1,253	309	1,567
1928	D	+7.2%	846	732	1,578
1924	D	+61.1%	834	181	1,068
1920	D	+47.1%	718	258	977
1916	D	+59.6%	608	153	764
1912	D	+69.5%	619	87	765
1908	D	+49.1%	587	198	793
1904	D	+47.1%	568	201	779
1900	D	+8.3%	1,100	929	2,048
1896	D	+15.9%	1,324	957	2,305
1892	D	+22.8%	1,343	831	2,248
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

8.1%

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

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: 42.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.5%

2.5%

75–84

3.2%

5.8%

65–74

6.5%

7.3%

55–64

7.2%

5.8%

45–54

6.5%

5.6%

35–44

6.0%

6.7%

25–34

6.1%

3.7%

18–24

3.1%

8.6%

5–17

7.2%

3.1%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$94,008

Orange County ranks in the top 5% of US counties.

Orange County$94,008

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.8%

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

Other Christian

17.2%

Baptist

16.5%

Methodist

2.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.5%

Mainline Protestant

1.4%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 59.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Orange County sits in Virginia's Piedmont foothills, where a predominantly rural, small-town electorate has delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 20 points in recent cycles, resisting the suburban shifts reshaping counties closer to Northern Virginia.

The shift began with civil rights. 1952 marked the realignment in Orange County, by a twenty-five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-four points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Orange County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 76% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $94,008, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of York County and Steuben County.

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