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congressional district

New York 5th 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

African American†15.9%8.0%9.9%

Jamaican7.7%1.6%0.4%

Guyanese6.9%0.7%—

Haitian3.8%0.9%0.3%

Trinidadian and Tobagonian2.3%0.4%—

West Indian2.0%0.4%—

African1.0%0.6%0.5%

Nigerian1.0%0.2%0.2%

Ecuadorian3.9%1.6%—

Dominican3.4%4.6%0.7%

Mexican3.0%2.5%11.3%

Puerto Rican3.0%5.1%1.8%

Colombian2.3%0.9%0.4%

Salvadoran0.7%0.9%0.7%

Peruvian0.7%——

Guatemalan0.5%0.5%0.5%

Chinese6.1%3.6%1.3%

Asian Indian3.0%1.9%1.4%

Bangladeshi1.6%0.6%—

Korean1.2%0.6%0.4%

Filipino1.0%0.6%0.9%

Pakistani0.5%0.4%—

Nepalese0.3%——

Japanese0.2%0.2%0.2%

Italian3.1%10.9%4.8%

Irish2.3%10.5%9.4%

American1.8%4.2%5.3%

German1.5%8.6%12.5%

Polish1.3%3.9%2.2%

Russian0.8%1.2%—

Greek0.8%——

English0.6%5.6%9.5%

Aztec1.3%——

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	NY-5	New York	United States
Median age	40.3	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	7.4%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	17.9%	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Median household income	$86,577	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	12.9%	14.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	36.1%	40.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Owner-occupied homes	44.9%	54.3%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	55.1%	45.7%	34.8%
Median home value	—	$423,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	—	$1,621	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	52.9%	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	7.6%	10.0%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Mean commute	42.9 min	32.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	30.1%	16.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	31.4%	48.8%	68.8%
Takes public transit	41.4%	21.6%	3.2%
Works from home	12.9%	14.9%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	55.4%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	23.3%	14.8%	13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic	3.1%	2.0%	0.7%
Other Indo-European	10.2%	4.0%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	9.6%	3.2%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Catholic	—	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	5.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	48.7%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	NY-5	New York	United States
Foreign-born residents	47.6%	22.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	28.2%	13.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	19.3%	9.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	1.9%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	—	0.517	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

HarrisDemocratic70.5%169,532TrumpRepublican28.3%68,119OtherAll other candidates1.2%2,980

D+42.1

Lead: 101,413
Total: 240,631
vs nation: D+43.6

modeled Census-place estimatereview required

BidenDemocratic80.8%215,299TrumpRepublican18.5%49,291OtherAll other candidates0.7%1,814

D+62.3

Lead: 166,008
Total: 266,404
vs nation: D+57.9