Oil City, PA Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Oil City, PA

TrumpR+42.0

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	70.4%	18,883
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	28.4%	7,624
OtherAll other candidates	1.1%	302

D+60

R+60

A single county, filled by its 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover it for the full result.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	No data
1880	No data
1884	No data
1888	No data
1892	−9.8%
1896	−5.2%
1900	−17.0%
1904	−40.3%
1908	−21.0%
1912	+9.3%
1916	+0.9%
1920	−43.0%
1924	−61.4%
1928	−58.5%
1932	−31.7%
1936	−30.7%
1940	−44.0%
1944	−39.2%
1948	−38.6%
1952	−45.2%
1956	−50.7%
1960	−36.1%
1964	+13.9%
1968	−18.2%
1972	−37.0%
1976	−17.0%
1980	−18.2%
1984	−19.3%
1988	−14.0%
1992	−1.5%
1996	−1.0%
2000	−16.8%
2004	−23.0%
2008	−19.2%
2012	−26.4%
2016	−41.3%
2020	−41.4%
2024	−42.0%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	28.4%Harris7,624	70.4%Trump18,883	1.1%	−42.0%	26,809
2020	R	28.6%Biden7,585	70.0%Trump18,569	1.4%incl. Jorgensen	−41.4%	26,528
2016	R	26.8%Clinton6,309	68.1%Trump16,021	5.1%incl. Johnson	−41.3%	23,530
2012	R	35.7%Obama7,945	62.1%Romney13,815	2.2%	−26.4%	22,257
2008	R	39.6%Obama9,238	58.9%McCain13,718	1.5%	−19.2%	23,307
2004	R	38.1%Kerry9,024	61.2%Bush14,472	0.7%	−23.0%	23,659
2000	R	39.9%Gore8,196	56.7%Bush11,642	3.4%incl. Nader	−16.8%	20,541
1996	R	42.0%Clinton8,205	43.0%Dole8,398	15.1%incl. Perot	−1.0%	19,549
1992	R	38.2%Clinton8,230	39.6%Bush8,545	22.2%incl. Perot	−1.5%	21,554
1988	R	42.6%Dukakis8,624	56.6%Bush11,468	0.8%	−14.0%	20,263
1984	R	40.1%Mondale9,114	59.4%Reagan13,507	0.5%	−19.3%	22,725
1980	R	37.9%Carter7,800	56.0%Reagan11,547	6.1%incl. Anderson	−18.2%	20,604
1976	R	40.6%Carter8,653	57.6%Ford12,270	1.8%	−17.0%	21,311
1972	R	30.3%McGovern6,302	67.3%Nixon13,991	2.4%	−37.0%	20,794
1968	R	37.9%Humphrey8,319	56.1%Nixon12,323	6.0%incl. Wallace	−18.2%	21,949
1964	D	56.8%Johnson13,065	42.9%Goldwater9,873	0.4%	+13.9%	23,022
1960	R	31.9%Kennedy8,064	68.0%Nixon17,193	0.1%	−36.1%	25,280
1956	R	24.6%Stevenson5,594	75.3%Eisenhower17,107	0.1%	−50.7%	22,715
1952	R	27.0%Stevenson6,356	72.2%Eisenhower17,006	0.9%	−45.2%	23,566
1948	R	29.3%Truman5,144	68.0%Dewey11,920	2.7%incl. Thurmond	−38.6%	17,536
1944	R	29.7%Roosevelt6,426	68.9%Dewey14,916	1.4%	−39.2%	21,646
1940	R	27.9%Roosevelt6,873	71.9%Willkie17,728	0.2%	−44.0%	24,658
1936	R	33.4%Roosevelt9,212	64.1%Landon17,676	2.5%	−30.7%	27,565
1932	R	32.3%Roosevelt6,174	64.1%Hoover12,230	3.6%	−31.7%	19,088
1928	R	20.5%Smith4,531	79.0%Hoover17,450	0.5%	−58.5%	22,089
1924	R	12.9%Davis1,886	74.3%Coolidge10,841	12.8%incl. La Follette	−61.4%	14,592
1920	R	22.7%Cox2,669	65.7%Harding7,718	11.6%	−43.0%	11,746
1916	D	41.8%Wilson3,938	41.0%Hughes3,856	17.2%	+0.9%	9,410
1912	O	27.6%Wilson2,507	18.3%Taft1,660	54.2%incl. Roosevelt	+9.3%	9,092
1908	R	28.8%Bryan2,815	49.7%Taft4,868	21.5%	−21.0%	9,788
1904	R	17.0%Parker1,747	57.3%Roosevelt5,892	25.7%	−40.3%	10,278
1900	R	35.7%Bryan4,014	52.7%McKinley5,931	11.6%	−17.0%	11,244
1896	R	44.6%Bryan4,599	49.8%McKinley5,133	5.6%	−5.2%	10,304
1892	R	39.6%Cleveland3,288	49.3%Harrison4,099	11.1%incl. Weaver	−9.8%	8,313
1888	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1884	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1880	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1876	—	—	—	—	No data	—

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	Oil City, PAMetro area	PennsylvaniaState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	93.6%	74.5%	61.0%
Black	1.3%	10.7%	12.2%
Asian	0.3%	3.8%	6.0%
Two or more races	3.7%	7.1%	12.6%
Other race	1.1%	3.9%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	1.3%	8.7%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$61,522	$77,971	$84,427
Poverty rate	13.2%	11.7%	12.5%
Median age	47.6	41.2	39.1
Age 18–24	6.4%	8.9%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	24.8%	19.5%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	19.1%	35.2%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	2.0%	12.4%	22.3%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	German 30.9%	German 21.6%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	Irish 16.8%	Irish 14.8%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	English 11.5%	Italian 10.6%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	8.8%	21.9%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	13.7%	9.3%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	55.5%	53.1%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	19.8%	10.3%	5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

German

30.9%

Irish

16.8%

English

11.5%

American

6.2%

Italian

4.5%

Polish

4.4%

Dutch

2.7%

Scottish

2.1%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries, none of which clears the display floor here.

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Puerto Rican

0.5%

Mexican

0.4%

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Below 1% of the population here; subgroup estimates are within the survey's margin of error.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 47.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.7%

3.4%

75–84

3.9%

7.4%

65–74

7.5%

8.1%

55–64

8.1%

6.3%

45–54

5.9%

5.6%

35–44

5.7%

5.0%

25–34

4.9%

3.3%

18–24

3.1%

7.3%

5–17

7.1%

2.4%

2.2%

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

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$61,522

Oil City, PA$61,522

Pennsylvania$77,971

United States$80,734

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

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1820.1%

Working age (18–64)11.9%

Seniors (65+)9.2%

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

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

98.0%

speak English only

German or other West Germanic0.9%

Spanish0.5%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.1%

Other Indo-European0.1%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Mainline Protestant

19.8%

Evangelical Protestant

13.7%

Catholic

8.8%

Other Christian

1.3%

Latter-day Saints

0.9%

Unaffiliated or not counted55.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Venango County's Allegheny River corridor has shed roughly half its population since the mid-20th century, and Oil City anchors a district where working-class realignment has steadily widened Republican margins in statewide races over the past two decades.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 61.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.0 points.

A population of 49,801, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,522 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?

In 2024, Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 42.0 points (R+42.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 26,809 votes cast, 7,624 went Democratic and 18,883 went Republican.

When did Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 1964.

How many people live in Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania?

Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania has a population of 49,801 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania?

Median household income in Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania is $61,522 — below the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.

What is the political history of Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Oil City, PA, Pennsylvania from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 31 went Republican.

Oil City, PA has voted Republican in fifteen straight presidential elections — R+42.0 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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