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1876–2024
Evansville, IN·Indiana

Evansville, IN peaked at D+41; 2024 delivered R+21.

Ohio River hub where downstate Indiana politics diverge from Indianapolis

1876 — 2024·38 elections
IN
Latest
R+21
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
270,494
2024 ACS

Evansville, IN, Indiana: Populist metro. In 2024, voted R+21%. Democratic peak: D+41 in 1936.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+21MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
PopulistAkashic typology
Population
270,4942024 5-year
Median household income
$69,9812024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
84.7%2024 5-year
Black
6.2%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
3.3%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+41 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+36 in 1972MIT Election Lab
2024 results by constituent county
3 counties · 0 D · 3 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−20.8%
46,59171,542120,007
R
−17.8%
50,14972,376124,727
R
−23.4%
40,89767,948115,602
R
−15.9%
46,43964,499113,241
R
−2.3%
57,58060,329119,092
R
−22.4%
41,83266,226108,665
R
−13.2%
42,40155,54999,640
D
+2.9%
45,18442,36898,024
D
+3.9%
47,04342,793108,907
R
−11.7%
43,73755,41999,507
R
−15.8%
41,84657,66899,924
R
−9.9%
41,24051,02598,906
R
−2.3%
48,01350,31198,795
R
−35.9%
30,04564,09794,756
R
−9.0%
39,99949,01899,808
D
+25.3%
59,18235,18094,817
R
−7.2%
45,82952,91999,046
R
−16.0%
39,44754,52894,330
R
−16.5%
38,19253,36792,136
D
+7.7%
42,11936,06579,127
D
+3.1%
42,67240,10083,247
D
+11.7%
48,60838,38787,377
D
+40.7%
52,46321,78175,402
D
+29.2%
42,87823,17867,482
R
−16.1%
27,44238,06665,897
R
−14.7%
25,09834,51764,021
R
−11.4%
22,51428,83455,637
D
+1.7%
15,19414,65331,254
D
+17.2%
12,2047,45327,598
R
−1.7%
13,89914,39930,064
R
−9.5%
11,19513,83927,692
R
−0.5%
13,18313,32127,304
D
+0.2%
13,13713,07626,396
D
+3.2%
10,99210,27022,642
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
27.7%
English
14.5%
Irish
11.4%
American
5.9%
French
2.1%
Scottish
2.0%
Italian
1.9%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 39.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.7%
85+
1.4%
2.3%
75–84
3.0%
5.3%
65–74
5.9%
6.4%
55–64
6.7%
5.8%
45–54
5.8%
6.4%
35–44
6.4%
6.5%
25–34
6.5%
4.5%
18–24
4.4%
8.4%
5–17
8.0%
2.9%
<5
2.7%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$69,981
Evansville, IN ranks near the middle of US counties.
Evansville, IN$69,981
Indiana$71,957
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
12.1%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1816.3%
Working age (18–64)11.1%
Seniors (65+)9.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
96.1%
speak English only
Spanish1.8%
Asian & Pacific Islander1.0%
Other Indo-European0.8%
Other languages0.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
12.8%
Other Christian
11.7%
Baptist
7.4%
Methodist
4.6%
Mainline Protestant
4.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.0%
Non-Christian
1.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 55.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Evansville anchors the southwestern corner of Indiana, where the metro area's working-class manufacturing heritage and proximity to Kentucky and Illinois produce voting patterns that consistently run more conservative than the state's urban center.

The Democratic margin in Evansville, IN peaked at forty-one points in 1936. By 2000 the metro had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was twenty-one points, the most Republican-leaning result in the metro's modern history.

The economic context is the key. The median household income of $69,981 sits well below state and national norms, and 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country.

Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Evansville, IN, Indiana — The Long Memory. Akashic Intelligence — The Long Memory. https://tiers.akashic.app/cbsa/21780/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
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Frequently asked questions

How did Evansville, IN, Indiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Evansville, IN, Indiana voted Republican by 20.8 points (R+21), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 120,007 votes cast, 46,591 went Democratic and 71,542 went Republican.
What is Evansville, IN, Indiana's political archetype?
Akashic classifies Evansville, IN, Indiana as a "Populist" metro based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the metro has voted Democratic 12 times, Republican 22 times, and other 0 times.
When did Evansville, IN, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Evansville, IN, Indiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Evansville, IN, Indiana?
Evansville, IN, Indiana has a population of 270,494 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Evansville, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Evansville, IN, Indiana is $69,981 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Evansville, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Evansville, IN, Indiana from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican. The metro's archetype — "Populist" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.