† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
20042024
Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupEmeryvilleCaliforniaUnited States
German7.2%6.8%12.5%
English6.8%6.3%9.5%
Irish6.7%5.9%9.4%
Italian3.7%3.4%4.8%
American2.2%2.8%5.3%
French1.6%1.3%1.6%
Portuguese1.6%——
Polish1.4%0.9%2.2%
Chinese10.2%3.9%1.3%
Asian Indian8.9%2.3%1.4%
Filipino5.0%3.3%0.9%
Vietnamese1.8%1.7%0.6%
Korean1.2%1.2%0.4%
Japanese0.7%0.6%0.2%
Taiwanese0.6%0.3%—
Pakistani0.4%——
African American†17.3%4.4%9.9%
African0.9%0.3%0.5%
Ethiopian0.9%——
Nigerian0.7%—0.2%
Jamaican0.4%—0.4%
Mexican8.0%32.3%11.3%
Salvadoran0.7%2.0%0.7%
Guatemalan0.6%1.3%0.5%
Puerto Rican0.3%0.6%1.8%
Nicaraguan0.2%0.3%—
Spaniard0.2%0.3%—
Spanish0.2%0.3%—
Aztec1.0%0.3%—
Maya0.7%——
Fijian0.7%——
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
Emeryville
California
United States
Median age
34.5
37.9
39.1
Age 18–24
7.5%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
11.1%
15.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Emeryville
California
United States
Median household income
$117,092
$99,122
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.8%
12.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
70.5%
36.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Emeryville
California
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
39.1%
44.4%
22.3%
Spanish
6.3%
28.4%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
9.7%
3.4%
2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)
12.1%
3.5%
1.1%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
2.3%
2.0%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Emeryville
California
United States
Catholic
—
26.2%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
9.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
—
55.2%
51.5%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Emeryville, California
presidential history
Presidential margin, 2004–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
2004
+78.3%
2008
+82.8%
2012
+78.4%
2016
+82.4%
2020
+82.4%
2024
+76.0%
DemocraticRepublican
6 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year. Third-party votes in 2012 are allocated from certified county totals by this place's share of each county's two-party vote — that cycle's precinct source records two-party splits. † 2004 sub-county results are estimated: the source's block-level detail for this cycle was unreliable — either county/municipality-level consolidated reporting (COVID-era) or a precinct-to-block allocation that misplaced votes — so the figures are allocated from the constituent county totals in proportion to the place and scaled to certified totals.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
85.3%Harris4,596
9.2%Trump497
5.5%
D+76.0
R+6.3
D+77.5
5,390
D
90.2%Biden5,548
7.9%Trump484
1.9%
D+82.4
R+0.1
D+77.9
6,148
D
88.4%Clinton4,751
6.0%Trump322
5.6%
D+82.4
D+4.0
D+80.4
5,372
D
87.6%Obama3,895
9.2%Romney408
3.2%
D+78.4
R+4.3
D+74.6
4,445
D
91.3%Obama4,293
8.5%McCain401
0.2%
D+82.8
D+4.5
D+75.5
4,703
D
88.6%Kerry3,720
10.3%Bush434
1.1%
D+78.3
—
D+80.7
4,199
Emeryville packs a daytime workforce of tech and biotech employees into a half-square-mile footprint, producing a voter base that skews highly educated and leans heavily toward Democratic candidates in every tracked cycle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.8 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.0 points.
A population of 13,081, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $117,092 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albany and Scottdale.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Emeryville, California voted Democratic by 76.0 points (D+76.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 5,390 votes cast, 4,596 went Democratic and 497 went Republican.
How many people live in Emeryville, California?
Emeryville, California has a population of 13,081 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Emeryville, California?
Median household income in Emeryville, California is $117,092 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Emeryville, California?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Emeryville, California from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
