Olean, NY Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Olean, NY

TrumpR+32.7

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	66.2%	22,586
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	33.5%	11,424
OtherAll other candidates	0.3%	97

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	−14.7%
1896	−20.4%
1900	−22.3%
1904	−33.0%
1908	−19.7%
1912	+0.5%
1916	−14.0%
1920	−39.1%
1924	−44.1%
1928	−36.1%
1932	−21.5%
1936	−26.0%
1940	−31.6%
1944	−25.5%
1948	−22.9%
1952	−37.2%
1956	−44.9%
1960	−19.0%
1964	+33.7%
1968	−12.4%
1972	−33.4%
1976	−17.1%
1980	−13.2%
1984	−40.5%
1988	−22.3%
1992	−10.8%
1996	+0.2%
2000	−13.5%
2004	−19.1%
2008	−10.6%
2012	−13.2%
2016	−32.7%
2020	−29.6%
2024	−32.7%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	33.5%Harris11,424	66.2%Trump22,586	0.3%	−32.7%	34,107
2020	R	34.2%Biden11,879	63.7%Trump22,155	2.1%incl. Jorgensen	−29.6%	34,760
2016	R	30.5%Clinton9,497	63.2%Trump19,692	6.3%incl. Johnson	−32.7%	31,161
2012	R	42.5%Obama12,649	55.7%Romney16,569	1.8%	−13.2%	29,767
2008	R	43.9%Obama14,307	54.5%McCain17,770	1.7%	−10.6%	32,617
2004	R	39.4%Kerry13,514	58.5%Bush20,051	2.0%	−19.1%	34,266
2000	R	41.0%Gore13,816	54.5%Bush18,382	4.6%incl. Nader	−13.5%	33,733
1996	D	41.2%Clinton13,029	41.0%Dole12,971	17.8%incl. Perot	+0.2%	31,643
1992	R	28.9%Clinton10,150	39.7%Bush13,944	31.3%incl. Perot	−10.8%	35,092
1988	R	38.4%Dukakis12,447	60.7%Bush19,691	0.9%	−22.3%	32,428
1984	R	29.6%Mondale10,194	70.1%Reagan24,162	0.3%	−40.5%	34,468
1980	R	39.5%Carter12,917	52.7%Reagan17,222	7.9%incl. Anderson	−13.2%	32,709
1976	R	41.2%Carter13,768	58.3%Ford19,469	0.6%	−17.1%	33,422
1972	R	33.1%McGovern10,909	66.5%Nixon21,906	0.3%	−33.4%	32,927
1968	R	40.9%Humphrey12,733	53.3%Nixon16,594	5.8%incl. Wallace	−12.4%	31,148
1964	D	66.8%Johnson21,994	33.1%Goldwater10,907	0.1%	+33.7%	32,933
1960	R	40.5%Kennedy14,797	59.5%Nixon21,749	0.1%	−19.0%	36,573
1956	R	27.5%Stevenson9,613	72.5%Eisenhower25,282	0.0%	−44.9%	34,895
1952	R	31.3%Stevenson11,333	68.5%Eisenhower24,808	0.1%	−37.2%	36,195
1948	R	37.1%Truman11,289	60.0%Dewey18,246	2.8%incl. Thurmond	−22.9%	30,393
1944	R	37.1%Roosevelt11,787	62.6%Dewey19,907	0.3%	−25.5%	31,795
1940	R	34.0%Roosevelt11,924	65.6%Willkie22,987	0.4%	−31.6%	35,055
1936	R	36.1%Roosevelt11,901	62.1%Landon20,484	1.8%	−26.0%	32,984
1932	R	37.2%Roosevelt11,467	58.7%Hoover18,071	4.1%	−21.5%	30,786
1928	R	31.0%Smith10,229	67.1%Hoover22,135	1.9%	−36.1%	33,001
1924	R	19.8%Davis5,369	63.9%Coolidge17,307	16.2%incl. La Follette	−44.1%	27,066
1920	R	27.9%Cox6,693	66.9%Harding16,083	5.2%	−39.1%	24,029
1916	R	40.5%Wilson6,565	54.5%Hughes8,825	5.0%	−14.0%	16,197
1912	D	34.0%Wilson4,886	33.6%Taft4,820	32.4%incl. Roosevelt	+0.5%	14,363
1908	R	37.2%Bryan6,096	56.9%Taft9,320	5.8%	−19.7%	16,371
1904	R	30.9%Parker4,923	64.0%Roosevelt10,182	5.1%	−33.0%	15,919
1900	R	37.2%Bryan6,224	59.5%McKinley9,948	3.2%	−22.3%	16,713
1896	R	38.3%Bryan6,088	58.8%McKinley9,337	2.9%	−20.4%	15,889
1892	R	38.1%Cleveland5,753	52.8%Harrison7,973	9.1%incl. Weaver	−14.7%	15,105
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	Olean, NYMetro area	New YorkState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	88.6%	55.2%	61.0%
Black	1.5%	14.4%	12.2%
Asian	0.9%	9.1%	6.0%
Two or more races	5.7%	10.3%	12.6%
Other race	3.3%	11.1%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	2.4%	19.8%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$59,540	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	19.1%	14.0%	12.5%
Median age	42.8	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	8.8%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	20.9%	18.0%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	21.1%	40.0%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	6.0%	30.9%	22.3%
German or other West Germanic	3.0%	1.5%	0.5%
Spanish	1.1%	14.8%	13.6%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	German 25.2%	Italian 10.9%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	Irish 16.2%	Irish 10.5%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	English 13.2%	German 8.6%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	16.6%	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	9.0%	5.1%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	64.8%	48.7%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	5.8%	3.8%	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

25.2%

Irish

16.2%

English

13.2%

Polish

8.6%

Italian

8.1%

American

4.1%

Swedish

2.3%

French

1.8%

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

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

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Puerto Rican

0.9%

Mexican

0.6%

Venezuelan

0.2%

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.

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: 42.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.6%

2.6%

75–84

3.0%

6.3%

65–74

6.4%

7.4%

55–64

7.2%

6.1%

45–54

5.8%

5.6%

35–44

5.7%

5.5%

25–34

5.3%

4.6%

18–24

4.2%

8.6%

5–17

8.0%

2.7%

2.6%

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

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$59,540

Olean, NY$59,540

New York$85,974

United States$80,734

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

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.1%

Children face higher poverty than working-age adults.

Children under 1827.3%

Working age (18–64)16.8%

Seniors (65+)15.9%

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

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

94.0%

speak English only

German or other West Germanic3.0%

Spanish1.1%

Other languages0.6%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.5%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.2%

Other Indo-European0.2%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.1%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.1%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

16.6%

Evangelical Protestant

9.0%

Mainline Protestant

5.8%

Latter-day Saints

2.2%

Other Christian

0.8%

Muslim

0.4%

Black Protestant

0.3%

Other faiths

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted64.8%

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.

Olean anchors Cattaraugus County, a persistently Republican-leaning corner of western New York where manufacturing decline and a regional university create an unusual mix of working-class and college-town demographics.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 44.9 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.7 points.

A population of 76,145, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,540 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Olean, NY, New York vote in 2024?

In 2024, Olean, NY, New York voted Republican by 32.7 points (R+32.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 34,107 votes cast, 11,424 went Democratic and 22,586 went Republican.

When did Olean, NY, New York last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Olean, NY, New York voted Democratic was 1996.

How many people live in Olean, NY, New York?

Olean, NY, New York has a population of 76,145 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Olean, NY, New York?

Median household income in Olean, NY, New York is $59,540 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.

What is the political history of Olean, NY, New York?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Olean, NY, New York from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 3 went Democratic and 31 went Republican.

Olean, NY has voted Republican in seven straight presidential elections — R+32.7 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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