Five Mile Prairie, Spokane, WA Political Map | Democrat & Republican Areas in Five Mile Prairie

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. Last updated May 2026.

Five Mile Prairie leans slightly Republican by roughly 12 points: about 44% of voters vote Democratic and 56% Republican.

 

About more than 99% of adults in Five Mile Prairie typically vote, above the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Five Mile Prairie, ~47% vote Democratic, ~60% Republican, and ~-7% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.

How Five Mile Prairie compares

Among neighborhoods within 5 miles, Five Mile Prairie is the most Republican-leaning.

Five Mile Prairie runs about 31 points more Republican than Washington as a whole. Washington leans Democratic overall, while Five Mile Prairie is one of the few Republican-leaning pockets.

Why Five Mile Prairie leans the way it does

This analysis examined 14,881 data points per neighborhood to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Five Mile Prairie, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.

Rural areas with a high white share vote Republican. Five Mile Prairie sits in the bottom quarter on density and about 86% of residents are non-Hispanic white, about 16 points above the Washington average of 71%. A high family-household share predicts Republican voting, and about 83% of households in Five Mile Prairie are family households, above 90% of neighborhoods. Five Mile Prairie runs against the grain of Washington, a Republican-leaning pocket in a Democratic-leaning state.

Never-married share, developed land, and voter turnout

Places that combine a low never-married share and a rural land-use pattern tend to turn out at a higher rate, as Five Mile Prairie, Spokane, WA does.

Why turnout in Five Mile Prairie looks the way it does

Areas with strong routine healthcare access turn out at higher rates. Five Mile Prairie is in the top quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 74%, about 14 points above the U.S. average of 60%. Homeowners vote more often than renters, and about 87% of households in Five Mile Prairie own their home, compared to around 71% in nearby neighborhoods. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.

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Sources and methodology

Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Washington Secretary of State, Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.

Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.

Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.