† 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
10 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
GroupRaleigh-Durham-Cary, NCNorth CarolinaUnited States
English13.0%12.7%9.5%
German9.4%9.4%12.5%
Irish8.8%8.4%9.4%
American6.0%8.3%5.3%
Italian4.2%3.3%4.8%
Scottish2.4%2.3%1.3%
French1.5%—1.6%
Polish1.5%1.0%2.2%
African American†18.2%18.3%9.9%
African0.6%0.7%0.5%
Nigerian0.3%0.2%0.2%
Jamaican0.2%0.2%0.4%
Ethiopian0.2%——
Mexican6.3%5.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.4%1.2%1.8%
Honduran0.9%0.7%0.3%
Salvadoran0.8%0.7%0.7%
Guatemalan0.5%0.4%0.5%
Colombian0.5%0.3%0.4%
Cuban0.4%0.3%0.7%
Dominican0.4%0.3%0.7%
Asian Indian2.7%1.2%1.4%
Chinese0.9%0.4%1.3%
Vietnamese0.4%0.3%0.6%
Korean0.4%0.2%0.4%
Filipino0.3%0.2%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
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median age
37.7
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
9.3%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
14.4%
17.2%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median household income
$92,874
$72,388
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.3%
13.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
48.8%
35.8%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
17.8%
13.5%
22.3%
Spanish
10.1%
8.7%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
2.1%
1.1%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.4%
0.9%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Catholic
10.5%
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
19.6%
26.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
52.7%
48.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.9%
9.1%
5.2%
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.
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+15.8%
1896
+16.1%
1900
+9.4%
1904
+31.9%
1908
+9.5%
1912
+48.3%
1916
+20.8%
1920
+19.6%
1924
+24.9%
1928
−4.6%
1932
+54.6%
1936
+64.6%
1940
+63.8%
1944
+51.4%
1948
+49.5%
1952
+28.8%
1956
+21.5%
1960
+21.0%
1964
+19.4%
1968
−1.0%
1972
−34.7%
1976
+10.1%
1980
+6.6%
1984
−13.6%
1988
−5.7%
1992
+8.2%
1996
+4.7%
2000
−0.9%
2004
+2.6%
2008
+16.9%
2012
+14.4%
2016
+19.6%
2020
+22.7%
2024
+21.3%
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
59.7%Harris763,479
38.4%Trump490,769
1.9%
D+21.3
R+1.4
D+22.8
1,277,911
D
60.5%Biden740,673
37.8%Trump462,493
1.7%
D+22.7
D+3.1
D+18.3
1,224,242
D
57.5%Clinton593,478
37.8%Trump390,677
4.7%
D+19.6
D+5.2
D+17.5
1,032,965
D
56.5%Obama541,347
42.1%Romney403,247
1.4%
D+14.4
R+2.5
D+10.6
958,047
D
58.0%Obama515,076
41.1%McCain365,173
0.9%
D+16.9
D+14.3
D+9.6
888,584
D
51.1%Kerry360,972
48.5%Bush342,657
0.5%
D+2.6
D+3.5
D+5.0
706,850
R
49.1%Gore267,987
50.1%Bush272,989
0.8%
R+0.9
R+5.6
R+1.4
545,289
D
49.3%Clinton234,392
44.7%Dole212,192
6.0%
D+4.7
R+3.6
R+3.8
475,005
D
47.3%Clinton217,472
39.1%Bush179,659
13.6%
D+8.2
D+13.9
D+2.7
459,592
R
46.9%Dukakis161,772
52.6%Bush181,415
0.4%
R+5.7
D+7.9
D+2.0
344,686
R
43.1%Mondale143,627
56.7%Reagan188,896
0.2%
R+13.6
R+20.2
D+4.6
333,284
D
50.3%Carter135,113
43.7%Reagan117,300
6.0%
D+6.6
R+3.4
D+16.4
268,522
D
54.8%Carter127,981
44.7%Ford104,435
0.5%
D+10.1
D+44.8
D+8.0
233,541
R
32.0%McGovern71,194
66.7%Nixon148,421
1.3%
R+34.7
R+33.7
R+11.6
222,504
O
32.6%Humphrey69,814
33.6%Nixon71,874
33.7%
Wallace +0.1
R+20.4
R+0.3
213,852
D
59.7%Johnson106,041
40.3%Goldwater71,572
0.0%
D+19.4
R+1.6
R+3.2
177,613
D
60.5%Kennedy94,770
39.5%Nixon61,867
0.0%
D+21.0
R+0.5
D+20.8
156,637
D
60.7%Stevenson80,245
39.3%Eisenhower51,871
0.0%
D+21.5
R+7.3
D+36.9
132,116
D
64.4%Stevenson89,368
35.6%Eisenhower49,452
0.0%
D+28.8
R+20.8
D+39.5
138,820
D
71.5%Truman66,722
22.0%Dewey20,532
6.5%
D+49.5
R+1.9
D+45.0
93,271
D
75.7%Roosevelt66,836
24.3%Dewey21,430
0.0%
D+51.4
R+12.4
D+43.9
88,266
D
81.9%Roosevelt73,066
18.1%Willkie16,123
0.0%
D+63.8
R+0.7
D+53.9
89,189
D
82.3%Roosevelt76,524
17.7%Landon16,476
0.0%
D+64.6
D+10.0
D+40.3
93,000
D
76.7%Roosevelt59,086
22.1%Hoover17,006
1.3%
D+54.6
D+59.2
D+36.8
77,067
R
47.7%Smith35,073
52.3%Hoover38,478
0.0%
R+4.6
R+29.6
D+12.8
73,551
D
61.7%Davis33,904
36.7%Coolidge20,200
1.6%
D+24.9
D+5.3
D+50.1
54,972
D
59.8%Cox36,970
40.2%Harding24,859
0.0%
D+19.6
R+1.2
D+45.8
61,829
D
60.3%Wilson21,134
39.6%Hughes13,861
0.1%
D+20.8
R+27.6
D+17.6
35,022
D
60.7%Wilson17,705
12.4%Taft3,605
26.9%
D+48.3
D+38.8
D+28.8
29,163
D
54.7%Bryan16,891
45.2%Taft13,958
0.1%
D+9.5
R+22.4
D+19.1
30,877
D
65.7%Parker15,265
33.8%Roosevelt7,856
0.5%
D+31.9
D+22.5
D+51.6
23,226
D
54.4%Bryan19,887
45.0%McKinley16,446
0.6%
D+9.4
R+6.7
D+17.0
36,548
D
57.9%Bryan23,837
41.7%McKinley17,200
0.4%
D+16.1
D+0.3
D+22.2
41,204
D
43.8%Cleveland16,165
28.0%Harrison10,333
28.1%
D+15.8
—
D+14.2
36,877
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
60.8%532,339
37.0%323,667
875,534
2020
D
57.8%702,584
38.0%461,725
1,215,269
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+14.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+21.3
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 7.0 points more Republican.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
1,155,528
559,830
316,622
278,061
1,015
2012
1,336,234
606,410
349,127
375,985
4,712
2016
1,439,259
603,968
356,529
470,939
7,823
2020
1,582,004
626,678
369,984
572,624
12,718
2022
1,608,192
615,178
359,554
621,806
11,654
2024
1,709,746
618,405
373,735
699,401
18,205
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+24,265 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +314,206 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+17,803
2012
+18,500
2013
+17,756
2014
+18,038
2015
+20,293
2016
+26,090
2017
+20,598
2018
+24,739
2019
+21,852
2021
+36,559
2022
+22,613
2023
+25,091
2024
+20,009
2025
+24,265
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC sits in the Carolinas. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 34.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.3 points.
A population of 2,336,314, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,874 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA and Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO.
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How did Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic by 21.3 points (D+21.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,277,911 votes cast, 763,479 went Democratic and 490,769 went Republican.
When did Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina voted Republican was 2000.
How many people live in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina has a population of 2,336,314 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina is $92,874 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
