2024 presidential election
Zanesville, OH
TrumpR+43.8
Constituent county margins for Zanesville, OH, OHOne cell per constituent county, colored by 2024 presidential margin from deep red (Republican) through neutral to deep blue (Democratic), ordered bluest first.
How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
| Donald Trump ✓Republican | 71.4% | 28,147 |
|---|---|---|
| Kamala HarrisDemocratic | 27.6% | 10,874 |
| OtherAll other candidates | 0.9% | 373 |
D+60R+60
1 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | +0.8% |
| 1896 | −2.6% |
| 1900 | −4.8% |
| 1904 | −15.0% |
| 1908 | −9.7% |
| 1912 | +8.9% |
| 1916 | −8.8% |
| 1920 | −18.7% |
| 1924 | −37.4% |
| 1928 | −54.2% |
| 1932 | −9.9% |
| 1936 | +2.5% |
| 1940 | −10.4% |
| 1944 | −16.0% |
| 1948 | −11.4% |
| 1952 | −26.0% |
| 1956 | −38.5% |
| 1960 | −23.8% |
| 1964 | +28.2% |
| 1968 | −6.8% |
| 1972 | −30.8% |
| 1976 | −3.9% |
| 1980 | −16.3% |
| 1984 | −36.7% |
| 1988 | −25.4% |
| 1992 | −7.2% |
| 1996 | −0.1% |
| 2000 | −14.0% |
| 2004 | −15.0% |
| 2008 | −7.2% |
| 2012 | −6.0% |
| 2016 | −34.3% |
| 2020 | −39.3% |
| 2024 | −43.8% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Democratic | Republican | Other | Margin | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 27.6%Harris10,874 | 71.4%Trump28,147 | 0.9% | 39,394 | ||
| R | 29.6%Biden11,971 | 68.9%Trump27,867 | 1.5%incl. Jorgensen | 40,465 | ||
| R | 29.5%Clinton11,123 | 63.8%Trump24,056 | 6.7%incl. Johnson | 37,708 | ||
| R | 45.2%Obama17,002 | 51.2%Romney19,264 | 3.6% | 37,603 | ||
| R | 45.2%Obama17,730 | 52.4%McCain20,549 | 2.4% | 39,225 | ||
| R | 42.3%Kerry16,421 | 57.3%Bush22,254 | 0.5% | 38,866 | ||
| R | 41.1%Gore13,415 | 55.2%Bush17,995 | 3.7%incl. Nader | 32,624 | ||
| R | 41.9%Clinton13,813 | 42.0%Dole13,861 | 16.1%incl. Perot | 32,972 | ||
| R | 33.6%Clinton11,670 | 40.8%Bush14,168 | 25.6%incl. Perot | 34,720 | ||
| R | 36.9%Dukakis11,691 | 62.3%Bush19,736 | 0.8% | 31,674 | ||
| R | 31.3%Mondale10,037 | 68.0%Reagan21,821 | 0.8% | 32,101 | ||
| R | 38.5%Carter12,584 | 54.8%Reagan17,921 | 6.7%incl. Anderson | 32,688 | ||
| R | 47.1%Carter14,178 | 51.1%Ford15,358 | 1.8% | 30,070 | ||
| R | 33.2%McGovern10,313 | 64.0%Nixon19,897 | 2.8% | 31,094 | ||
| R | 41.3%Humphrey13,089 | 48.1%Nixon15,260 | 10.6%incl. Wallace | 31,705 | ||
| D | 64.1%Johnson20,792 | 35.9%Goldwater11,635 | 0.0% | 32,427 | ||
| R | 38.1%Kennedy13,254 | 61.9%Nixon21,518 | 0.0% | 34,772 | ||
| R | 30.7%Stevenson10,110 | 69.3%Eisenhower22,788 | 0.0% | 32,898 | ||
| R | 37.0%Stevenson12,490 | 63.0%Eisenhower21,244 | 0.0% | 33,734 | ||
| R | 44.2%Truman12,765 | 55.5%Dewey16,049 | 0.3%incl. Thurmond | 28,895 | ||
| R | 42.0%Roosevelt12,729 | 58.0%Dewey17,577 | 0.0% | 30,306 | ||
| R | 44.8%Roosevelt15,753 | 55.2%Willkie19,395 | 0.0% | 35,148 | ||
| D | 49.9%Roosevelt16,265 | 47.4%Landon15,454 | 2.6% | 32,573 | ||
| R | 44.2%Roosevelt13,378 | 54.0%Hoover16,366 | 1.8% | 30,285 | ||
| R | 22.6%Smith6,507 | 76.8%Hoover22,120 | 0.6% | 28,798 | ||
| R | 28.3%Davis6,709 | 65.7%Coolidge15,571 | 6.0%incl. La Follette | 23,697 | ||
| R | 39.9%Cox9,437 | 58.6%Harding13,862 | 1.6% | 23,671 | ||
| R | 43.6%Wilson6,328 | 52.4%Hughes7,597 | 4.0% | 14,502 | ||
| D | 38.5%Wilson5,376 | 29.6%Taft4,134 | 31.9%incl. Roosevelt | 13,973 | ||
| R | 42.6%Bryan6,576 | 52.4%Taft8,080 | 5.0% | 15,431 | ||
| R | 39.6%Parker5,511 | 54.5%Roosevelt7,597 | 5.9% | 13,928 | ||
| R | 46.3%Bryan6,667 | 51.1%McKinley7,365 | 2.7% | 14,414 | ||
| R | 48.1%Bryan6,871 | 50.7%McKinley7,245 | 1.3% | 14,299 | ||
| D | 48.6%Cleveland6,230 | 47.8%Harrison6,123 | 3.6%incl. Weaver | 12,814 | ||
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Demographics
Demographic profile
Demographic Profile
Key indicators compared across containing geographies
| Indicator | Zanesville, OHMetro area | OhioState | United StatesNation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Race & Ethnicity | |||
| White | 90.8% | 76.8% | 61.0% |
| Black | 3.1% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| Asian | 0.5% | 2.6% | 6.0% |
| Two or more races | 4.9% | 6.5% | 12.6% |
| Other race | 0.7% | 2.0% | 8.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1.3% | 4.8% | 19.3% |
| Income & Age | |||
| Median household income | $60,780 | $71,389 | $84,427 |
| Poverty rate | 15.1% | 13.3% | 12.5% |
| Median age | 40.3 | 39.8 | 39.1 |
| Age 18–24 | 8.5% | 8.9% | 9.2% |
| Age 65 and older | 18.6% | 18.3% | 17.2% |
| Education & Language | |||
| Bachelor's degree or higher (25+) | 20.6% | 31.6% | 35.6% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 2.5% | 8.0% | 22.3% |
| Ancestry | |||
| Largest ancestry | German 20.9% | German 22.3% | German 12.5% |
| 2nd-largest ancestry | English 14.0% | Irish 12.3% | Mexican 11.3% |
| 3rd-largest ancestry | Irish 11.3% | English 11.0% | English 9.5% |
| Religion | |||
| Catholic | 5.3% | 15.4% | 18.6% |
| Evangelical Protestant | 19.1% | 19.5% | 16.5% |
| Unaffiliated or unclaimed | 64.0% | 52.2% | 51.5% |
| Mainline Protestant | 10.5% | 7.0% | 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
20.9%
English
14.0%
Irish
11.3%
American
6.5%
Italian
2.5%
Scottish
1.9%
Scotch-Irish
1.2%
Polish
1.1%
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
Mexican
0.8%
Puerto Rican
0.2%
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: 40.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$60,780
Zanesville, OH$60,780
Ohio$71,389
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
15.1%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1820.5%
Working age (18–64)13.7%
Seniors (65+)11.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
97.5%
speak English only
Spanish0.9%
German or other West Germanic0.9%
Other Indo-European0.2%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.1%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.1%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.1%
Other Asian & Pacific Island0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Unaffiliated or not counted64.0%
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.
Zanesville anchors a post-industrial stretch of southeast Ohio where manufacturing decline reshuffled long-standing Democratic loyalties, producing some of the sharpest partisan swings in the state over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 54.2 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.8 points.
A population of 86,411, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,780 describe the metro.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Zanesville, OH, Ohio vote in 2024?
In 2024, Zanesville, OH, Ohio voted Republican by 43.8 points (R+43.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 39,394 votes cast, 10,874 went Democratic and 28,147 went Republican.
What is Zanesville, OH, Ohio's political typology?
Akashic places Zanesville, OH, Ohio in the "Heartland Swing" typology. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the metro has voted Democratic 4 times, Republican 30 times, and other 0 times.
When did Zanesville, OH, Ohio last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Zanesville, OH, Ohio voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Zanesville, OH, Ohio has a population of 86,411 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Zanesville, OH, Ohio is $60,780 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Zanesville, OH, Ohio from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 30 went Republican. The metro's typology — "Heartland Swing" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.