† 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
12 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
GroupDenver-Aurora-Greeley, COColoradoUnited States
German17.3%17.9%12.5%
English12.3%12.6%9.5%
Irish11.2%11.2%9.4%
Italian5.1%4.9%4.8%
American3.2%3.5%5.3%
Polish2.3%2.1%2.2%
Scottish2.3%2.5%1.3%
French2.0%2.0%1.6%
Mexican17.4%15.8%11.3%
Spanish1.0%1.2%—
Spaniard0.9%1.0%—
Puerto Rican0.7%0.7%1.8%
Salvadoran0.4%0.3%0.7%
Cuban0.3%0.3%0.7%
Colombian0.3%0.3%0.4%
Venezuelan0.2%——
African American†3.4%2.8%9.9%
Ethiopian0.3%0.2%—
African0.3%0.2%0.5%
Asian Indian0.8%0.6%1.4%
Chinese0.7%0.6%1.3%
Vietnamese0.6%0.4%0.6%
Korean0.4%0.3%0.4%
Filipino0.3%0.3%0.9%
Japanese0.2%—0.2%
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
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
Colorado
United States
Median age
37.3
37.9
39.1
Age 18–24
8.8%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
14.2%
15.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
Colorado
United States
Median household income
$105,958
$95,470
$84,427
Poverty rate
8.7%
9.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
48.9%
45.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
Colorado
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
19.3%
16.2%
22.3%
Spanish
12.8%
11.1%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.2%
1.0%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
Colorado
United States
Catholic
15.9%
15.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
9.7%
11.7%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
66.1%
64.7%
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.
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−43.9%
1896
+74.4%
1900
+14.0%
1904
−10.4%
1908
+3.6%
1912
+26.3%
1916
+27.5%
1920
−28.3%
1924
−43.8%
1928
−31.3%
1932
+9.4%
1936
+26.4%
1940
−0.0%
1944
−4.4%
1948
+4.3%
1952
−18.1%
1956
−17.8%
1960
−7.6%
1964
+24.3%
1968
−7.8%
1972
−25.3%
1976
−10.3%
1980
−20.9%
1984
−24.1%
1988
−2.0%
1992
+9.7%
1996
+4.9%
2000
+0.5%
2004
+4.5%
2008
+18.6%
2012
+14.6%
2016
+16.4%
2020
+24.8%
2024
+21.0%
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
D
59.1%Harris1,178,352
38.1%Trump760,572
2.8%
D+21.0
R+3.9
D+22.4
1,994,025
D
61.1%Biden1,253,647
36.3%Trump744,846
2.6%
D+24.8
D+8.4
D+20.4
2,051,483
D
54.0%Clinton939,929
37.6%Trump654,970
8.4%
D+16.4
D+1.8
D+14.3
1,742,064
D
56.1%Obama900,545
41.5%Romney666,307
2.4%
D+14.6
R+4.0
D+10.7
1,605,243
D
58.5%Obama867,630
39.9%McCain591,888
1.6%
D+18.6
D+14.1
D+11.3
1,483,800
D
51.6%Kerry671,180
47.1%Bush612,790
1.3%
D+4.5
D+4.0
D+6.9
1,300,314
D
46.8%Gore488,910
46.3%Bush484,061
6.9%
D+0.5
R+4.4
R+0.1
1,045,043
D
47.8%Clinton433,699
42.9%Dole389,264
9.2%
D+4.9
R+4.8
R+3.6
906,414
D
42.9%Clinton413,626
33.2%Bush319,856
24.0%
D+9.7
D+11.7
D+4.2
964,534
R
48.1%Dukakis409,729
50.1%Bush426,630
1.8%
R+2.0
D+22.1
D+5.7
851,687
R
37.2%Mondale301,452
61.3%Reagan497,010
1.5%
R+24.1
R+3.3
R+5.9
811,000
R
31.8%Carter233,546
52.6%Reagan386,849
15.6%
R+20.9
R+10.5
R+11.1
734,802
R
43.0%Carter294,932
53.4%Ford365,711
3.6%
R+10.3
D+15.0
R+12.4
685,228
R
36.2%McGovern216,654
61.5%Nixon368,308
2.4%
R+25.3
R+17.5
R+2.2
599,308
R
42.4%Humphrey211,559
50.2%Nixon250,600
7.4%
R+7.8
R+32.1
R+7.1
498,980
D
61.9%Johnson294,348
37.5%Goldwater178,639
0.6%
D+24.3
D+32.0
D+1.7
475,873
R
45.9%Kennedy197,480
53.6%Nixon230,382
0.5%
R+7.6
D+10.2
R+7.8
430,119
R
40.7%Stevenson151,682
58.6%Eisenhower218,155
0.7%
R+17.8
D+0.3
R+2.4
372,553
R
40.6%Stevenson139,901
58.7%Eisenhower202,514
0.7%
R+18.1
R+22.5
R+7.4
344,984
D
51.3%Truman135,794
46.9%Dewey124,338
1.8%
D+4.3
D+8.7
R+0.2
264,956
R
47.6%Roosevelt127,306
52.0%Dewey139,100
0.4%
R+4.4
R+4.4
R+11.9
267,549
R
49.6%Roosevelt134,936
49.7%Willkie134,988
0.7%
R+0.02
R+26.4
R+10.0
271,804
D
62.2%Roosevelt146,456
35.8%Landon84,316
2.0%
D+26.4
D+17.0
D+2.1
235,443
D
52.9%Roosevelt114,080
43.5%Hoover93,792
3.6%
D+9.4
D+40.7
R+8.4
215,719
R
33.8%Smith61,448
65.1%Hoover118,459
1.2%
R+31.3
D+12.4
R+13.9
182,001
R
18.7%Davis27,782
62.4%Coolidge92,965
18.9%
R+43.8
R+15.5
R+18.6
148,963
R
33.3%Cox39,828
61.6%Harding73,632
5.0%
R+28.3
R+55.8
R+2.1
119,454
D
61.9%Wilson71,964
34.4%Hughes40,030
3.6%
D+27.5
D+1.2
D+24.3
116,198
D
43.9%Wilson44,735
17.6%Taft17,962
38.5%
D+26.3
D+22.7
D+6.7
101,961
D
49.6%Bryan53,830
46.0%Taft49,956
4.4%
D+3.6
D+13.9
D+13.1
108,560
R
43.3%Parker43,227
53.6%Roosevelt53,599
3.1%
R+10.4
R+24.4
D+9.3
99,924
D
55.8%Bryan50,432
41.8%McKinley37,760
2.5%
D+14.0
R+60.4
D+21.6
90,428
D
86.6%Bryan65,604
12.2%McKinley9,228
1.3%
D+74.4
D+118.3
D+80.5
75,798
O
0.0%Cleveland0
43.9%Harrison16,457
56.1%
Weaver +12.2
—
R+45.6
37,487
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
D
60.9%950,042
36.5%569,745
1,559,486
2020
D
54.5%875,568
43.3%696,262
1,606,986
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+9.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+21.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 12 points more Republican.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2016
2,401,928
830,175
649,325
878,599
43,829
2018
2,477,457
827,749
621,465
983,108
45,135
2020
2,651,129
869,334
613,580
1,119,486
48,729
2022
2,744,651
845,142
566,821
1,282,316
50,372
2024
2,880,412
829,956
561,668
1,422,918
65,870
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−12,999 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +236,314 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+25,073
2012
+27,321
2013
+32,167
2014
+33,030
2015
+41,791
2016
+28,212
2017
+19,529
2018
+23,522
2019
+20,001
2021
−4,325
2022
−1,557
2023
+3,053
2024
+1,496
2025
−12,999
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO sits in the Rocky Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 43.9 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.0 points.
A population of 3,682,078, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $105,958 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA and Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA.
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How did Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado vote in 2024?
In 2024, Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado voted Democratic by 21.0 points (D+21.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,994,025 votes cast, 1,178,352 went Democratic and 760,572 went Republican.
When did Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado?
Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado has a population of 3,682,078 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado?
Median household income in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado is $105,958 — above the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO, Colorado from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
