† 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
11 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · 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
GroupBaton Rouge-Hammond, LALouisianaUnited States
French9.5%9.6%1.6%
English7.9%7.3%9.5%
German6.8%6.9%12.5%
American6.6%7.4%5.3%
Irish6.6%6.6%9.4%
Italian5.3%4.3%4.8%
French Canadian1.1%1.6%—
Scottish0.9%1.0%1.3%
African American†32.3%29.3%9.9%
African0.6%0.8%0.5%
Mexican1.9%2.1%11.3%
Honduran1.6%1.6%0.3%
Spanish0.7%0.7%—
Salvadoran0.3%—0.7%
Puerto Rican0.3%0.4%1.8%
Cuban0.2%0.3%0.7%
Spaniard0.2%0.2%—
Vietnamese0.5%0.5%0.6%
Asian Indian0.4%0.2%1.4%
Chinese0.3%0.2%1.3%
Filipino0.2%—0.9%
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
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median age
36
38
39.1
Age 18–24
11.2%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.3%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median household income
$68,787
$60,756
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.0%
19.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
29.4%
27.1%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA
Louisiana
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
7.4%
8.5%
22.3%
Spanish
4.3%
4.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA
Louisiana
United States
Catholic
19.1%
26.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
25.5%
25.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
44.1%
36.8%
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.
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+59.5%
1896
+34.9%
1900
+49.2%
1904
+75.2%
1908
+76.7%
1912
+69.5%
1916
+69.8%
1920
+41.4%
1924
+49.1%
1928
+39.3%
1932
+75.7%
1936
+68.1%
1940
+71.9%
1944
+64.1%
1948
+20.3%
1952
+13.9%
1956
−6.8%
1960
+27.2%
1964
−11.7%
1968
+9.2%
1972
−30.1%
1976
+12.8%
1980
+2.5%
1984
−17.1%
1988
−9.3%
1992
+0.7%
1996
+8.9%
2000
−8.6%
2004
−16.5%
2008
−16.0%
2012
−14.2%
2016
−15.5%
2020
−14.3%
2024
−17.6%
DemocraticRepublican
34 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.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
40.4%Harris180,361
57.9%Trump258,912
1.7%
R+17.6
R+3.2
R+16.1
446,953
R
41.9%Biden197,266
56.2%Trump264,782
1.8%
R+14.3
D+1.2
R+18.8
470,755
R
40.4%Clinton175,370
55.9%Trump242,792
3.8%
R+15.5
R+1.3
R+17.6
434,540
R
42.1%Obama180,477
56.3%Romney241,258
1.6%
R+14.2
D+1.9
R+18.0
428,712
R
41.3%Obama172,099
57.3%McCain238,958
1.4%
R+16.0
D+0.4
R+23.3
416,847
R
41.3%Kerry155,459
57.7%Bush217,499
1.0%
R+16.5
R+7.9
R+14.0
376,725
R
44.5%Gore150,316
53.1%Bush179,379
2.3%
R+8.6
R+17.5
R+9.1
337,623
D
50.5%Clinton169,972
41.6%Dole139,920
7.9%
D+8.9
D+8.2
D+0.4
336,469
D
44.2%Clinton143,688
43.4%Bush141,336
12.4%
D+0.7
D+10.0
R+4.8
325,337
R
44.6%Dukakis128,703
53.9%Bush155,529
1.4%
R+9.3
D+7.8
R+1.6
288,408
R
41.1%Mondale123,417
58.2%Reagan174,877
0.7%
R+17.1
R+19.6
D+1.1
300,547
D
49.7%Carter131,145
47.2%Reagan124,531
3.1%
D+2.5
R+10.3
D+12.2
263,990
D
55.2%Carter111,971
42.4%Ford86,010
2.4%
D+12.8
D+42.9
D+10.7
202,888
R
31.3%McGovern48,388
61.4%Nixon94,903
7.3%
R+30.1
R+39.2
R+6.9
154,623
O
29.0%Humphrey46,743
19.8%Nixon31,979
51.2%
Wallace +22.2
D+20.9
D+9.8
161,334
R
44.1%Johnson54,704
55.9%Goldwater69,223
0.0%
R+11.7
R+38.9
R+34.3
123,927
D
52.0%Kennedy55,813
24.8%Nixon26,635
23.2%
D+27.2
D+33.9
D+27.0
107,424
R
44.9%Stevenson35,727
51.6%Eisenhower41,104
3.5%
R+6.8
R+20.7
D+8.6
79,623
D
57.0%Stevenson46,128
43.0%Eisenhower34,845
0.0%
D+13.9
R+6.3
D+24.7
80,973
O
37.9%Truman17,566
17.6%Dewey8,171
44.5%
Thurmond +6.6
R+43.8
D+15.8
46,380
D
82.0%Roosevelt32,070
18.0%Dewey7,026
0.0%
D+64.1
R+7.9
D+56.6
39,096
D
86.0%Roosevelt34,650
14.0%Willkie5,660
0.0%
D+71.9
D+3.8
D+62.0
40,313
D
84.0%Roosevelt27,080
15.9%Landon5,139
0.0%
D+68.1
R+7.6
D+43.8
32,223
D
87.8%Roosevelt21,683
12.1%Hoover2,985
0.1%
D+75.7
D+36.4
D+57.9
24,704
D
69.7%Smith16,026
30.3%Hoover6,981
0.0%
D+39.3
R+9.8
D+56.8
23,007
D
74.2%Davis8,183
25.1%Coolidge2,765
0.7%
D+49.1
D+7.7
D+74.3
11,028
D
70.7%Cox7,730
29.3%Harding3,204
0.0%
D+41.4
R+28.4
D+67.6
10,935
D
81.4%Wilson6,409
11.6%Hughes914
7.0%
D+69.8
D+0.3
D+66.6
7,877
D
76.7%Wilson5,221
7.2%Taft492
16.1%
D+69.5
R+7.2
D+49.9
6,807
D
87.7%Bryan6,287
11.0%Taft791
1.3%
D+76.7
D+1.4
D+86.2
7,170
D
87.5%Parker5,265
12.2%Roosevelt737
0.3%
D+75.2
D+26.0
D+94.9
6,020
D
74.6%Bryan5,898
25.4%McKinley2,008
0.0%
D+49.2
D+14.3
D+56.8
7,906
D
66.4%Bryan8,972
31.5%McKinley4,261
2.1%
D+34.9
R+24.7
D+40.9
13,513
D
79.8%Cleveland13,109
20.2%Harrison3,324
0.0%
D+59.5
—
D+57.9
16,433
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
21.5%66,815
58.7%182,710
311,036
2020
R
20.2%92,689
57.8%264,902
458,059
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+3.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+17.6
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 22-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
650,465 registered voters · 2024
Democratic38.3%Republican34.4%Other27.3%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+196 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −15,983 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,839
2012
−333
2013
+1,424
2014
+350
2015
−97
2016
+890
2017
−6,123
2018
−3,333
2019
−3,289
2021
+1,723
2022
−2,193
2023
−2,498
2024
−861
2025
+196
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA sits in the Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.7 points in 1908 and a Republican high of 30.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.6 points.
A population of 1,012,051, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,787 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of New Orleans-Metairie-Slidell, LA-MS and Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas, LA.
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How did Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 17.6 points (R+17.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 446,953 votes cast, 180,361 went Democratic and 258,912 went Republican.
When did Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana has a population of 1,012,051 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana is $68,787 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baton Rouge-Hammond, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
