 About 1.7% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 9.9% of those age 65 or over.Like almost all of Wyoming, Washakie County is overwhelmingly Republican.No Democratic Presidential candidate has carried Washakie County since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon.