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congressional district

New Jersey 8th Congressional District

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1876–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1876 → 2024

2024

District by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Dominican9.7%4.0%0.7%

Puerto Rican8.9%5.1%1.8%

Ecuadorian5.6%1.7%—

Cuban4.2%0.9%0.7%

Colombian4.0%1.7%0.4%

Salvadoran3.3%0.8%0.7%

Mexican3.1%2.6%11.3%

Peruvian2.3%0.8%—

Italian8.1%13.7%4.8%

Irish6.9%12.1%9.4%

German3.9%8.6%12.5%

Polish2.9%4.6%2.2%

American2.8%3.3%5.3%

English2.1%4.9%9.5%

Portuguese1.2%0.4%—

Russian1.0%1.3%—

Asian Indian5.2%4.6%1.4%

Chinese2.4%1.6%1.3%

Filipino2.2%1.3%0.9%

Korean0.6%1.1%0.4%

Pakistani0.5%0.4%—

Vietnamese0.2%0.2%0.6%

Japanese0.2%—0.2%

Taiwanese0.2%——

African American†5.9%8.6%9.9%

Haitian0.6%0.7%0.3%

Jamaican0.5%0.8%0.4%

African0.4%0.5%0.5%

Guyanese0.3%0.2%—

Nigerian0.3%0.4%0.2%

Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.2%0.2%—

Aztec5.0%——

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Median age	35.7	40.3	39.1
Age 18–24	7.9%	8.4%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	12.9%	17.1%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Median household income	$84,356	$103,556	$84,427
Poverty rate	15.6%	9.7%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	47.1%	43.5%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Owner-occupied homes	34.1%	63.8%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	65.9%	36.2%	34.8%
Median home value	—	$454,400	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	—	$1,720	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	47.1%	51.6%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	6.3%	7.5%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Mean commute	34.7 min	30.5 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	16.8%	13.7%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	37.0%	62.2%	68.8%
Takes public transit	28.1%	8.1%	3.2%
Works from home	19.6%	16.8%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	54.3%	33.2%	22.3%
Spanish	32.2%	17.2%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	8.0%	5.6%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	2.7%	1.5%	1.1%
Arabic	2.7%	0.9%	0.4%

Religious landscape

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Catholic	—	32.0%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	5.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	47.8%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	NJ-8	New Jersey	United States
Foreign-born residents	41.0%	23.9%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	20.8%	13.5%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	20.2%	10.5%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	1.9%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	—	0.478	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083) · District housing, commuting and origins figures are constituent-county values weighted by each county’s share of the district — the Census publishes these at 119th-Congress lines and Akashic maps districts on the 2026 (cd:120) lines.

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic60.8%135,263TrumpRepublican36.6%81,446OtherAll other candidates2.5%5,648

D+24.2

Lead: 53,817
Total: 222,357
vs nation: D+25.7