combined metro areaRocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
presidential margin
2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican
2004D+1.9
2008D+14.3
2012D+16.7
2016D+13.2
2020D+10.2
2024D+6.9
full record · 1892 → 2024
presidential returns
2024 turnout 68.8% of 218,361 citizens 18+
Year
Democrat
Republican
Others
Total
CVAP
Turnout
2024
79,572
69,220
1,355
150,147
218,361
68.8%
2020
84,404
68,683
1,265
154,352
225,730
68.4%
2016
81,014
61,724
2,963
145,701
227,461
64.1%
2012
87,906
62,588
914
151,408
227,058
66.7%
2008
83,104
62,180
664
145,948
216,624
67.4%
2004
59,888
57,593
223
117,704
206,190†
57.1%
† 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
5 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
GroupRocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NCNorth CarolinaUnited States
African American†43.9%18.3%9.9%
African0.4%0.7%0.5%
Nigerian0.2%0.2%0.2%
English11.2%12.7%9.5%
American8.5%8.3%5.3%
Irish4.1%8.4%9.4%
German3.6%9.4%12.5%
Scottish0.9%2.3%1.3%
Italian0.9%3.3%4.8%
Scotch-Irish0.6%1.4%—
French0.6%—1.6%
Mexican5.6%5.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.5%1.2%1.8%
Honduran0.3%0.7%0.3%
Salvadoran0.2%0.7%0.7%
Cuban0.2%0.3%0.7%
Colombian0.2%0.3%0.4%
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
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median age
42.2
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.0%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
20.6%
17.2%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median household income
$55,393
$72,388
$84,427
Poverty rate
18.0%
13.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
20.0%
35.8%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
North Carolina
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.3%
13.5%
22.3%
Spanish
7.1%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
North Carolina
United States
Catholic
2.2%
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
28.9%
26.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
51.9%
48.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
8.6%
9.1%
5.2%
Black Protestant
5.8%
3.6%
2.2%
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.
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+25.5%
1896
−1.6%
1900
+29.0%
1904
+65.8%
1908
+46.0%
1912
+78.8%
1916
+66.2%
1920
+64.0%
1924
+71.4%
1928
+49.2%
1932
+88.2%
1936
+90.5%
1940
+89.5%
1944
+84.1%
1948
+80.9%
1952
+60.8%
1956
+57.1%
1960
+52.7%
1964
+28.5%
1968
+10.8%
1972
−35.9%
1976
+17.7%
1980
+6.0%
1984
−10.0%
1988
−5.2%
1992
+8.9%
1996
+7.5%
2000
+3.1%
2004
+1.9%
2008
+14.3%
2012
+16.7%
2016
+13.2%
2020
+10.2%
2024
+6.9%
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
53.0%Harris79,572
46.1%Trump69,220
0.9%
D+6.9
R+3.3
D+8.4
150,147
D
54.7%Biden84,404
44.5%Trump68,683
0.8%
D+10.2
R+3.1
D+5.7
154,352
D
55.6%Clinton81,014
42.4%Trump61,724
2.0%
D+13.2
R+3.5
D+11.1
145,701
D
58.1%Obama87,906
41.3%Romney62,588
0.6%
D+16.7
D+2.4
D+12.9
151,408
D
56.9%Obama83,104
42.6%McCain62,180
0.5%
D+14.3
D+12.4
D+7.1
145,948
D
50.9%Kerry59,888
48.9%Bush57,593
0.2%
D+1.9
R+1.1
D+4.4
117,704
D
51.4%Gore50,692
48.3%Bush47,662
0.4%
D+3.1
R+4.5
D+2.6
98,711
D
51.0%Clinton46,247
43.5%Dole39,418
5.4%
D+7.5
R+1.3
R+1.0
90,593
D
48.1%Clinton47,243
39.2%Bush38,511
12.7%
D+8.9
D+14.0
D+3.3
98,251
R
47.3%Dukakis39,323
52.5%Bush43,611
0.2%
R+5.2
D+4.9
D+2.6
83,139
R
44.9%Mondale41,848
54.9%Reagan51,203
0.2%
R+10.0
R+16.0
D+8.2
93,259
D
52.1%Carter37,468
46.1%Reagan33,168
1.7%
D+6.0
R+11.7
D+15.7
71,870
D
58.4%Carter38,157
40.8%Ford26,617
0.8%
D+17.7
D+53.6
D+15.6
65,301
R
31.0%McGovern20,778
66.9%Nixon44,888
2.2%
R+35.9
R+46.7
R+12.8
67,114
O
32.6%Humphrey23,698
21.8%Nixon15,861
45.6%
Wallace +12.9
R+17.7
D+11.5
72,655
D
64.2%Johnson38,233
35.8%Goldwater21,274
0.0%
D+28.5
R+24.2
D+5.9
59,507
D
76.4%Kennedy39,781
23.6%Nixon12,310
0.0%
D+52.7
R+4.4
D+52.6
52,091
D
78.6%Stevenson38,229
21.4%Eisenhower10,428
0.0%
D+57.1
R+3.7
D+72.5
48,657
D
80.4%Stevenson40,753
19.6%Eisenhower9,925
0.0%
D+60.8
R+20.1
D+71.6
50,678
D
88.4%Truman29,771
7.5%Dewey2,511
4.2%
D+80.9
R+3.2
D+76.4
33,689
D
92.0%Roosevelt31,278
8.0%Dewey2,705
0.0%
D+84.1
R+5.4
D+76.6
33,983
D
94.7%Roosevelt35,692
5.3%Willkie1,979
0.0%
D+89.5
R+1.0
D+79.5
37,671
D
95.2%Roosevelt34,903
4.8%Landon1,749
0.0%
D+90.5
D+2.2
D+66.2
36,652
D
93.8%Roosevelt29,153
5.6%Hoover1,750
0.5%
D+88.2
D+39.0
D+70.4
31,064
D
74.6%Smith18,573
25.4%Hoover6,322
0.0%
D+49.2
R+22.2
D+66.7
24,895
D
84.3%Davis12,916
12.9%Coolidge1,980
2.7%
D+71.4
D+7.4
D+96.6
15,317
D
82.0%Cox16,604
18.0%Harding3,643
0.0%
D+64.0
R+2.2
D+90.2
20,247
D
82.9%Wilson10,099
16.7%Hughes2,035
0.4%
D+66.2
R+12.6
D+63.1
12,179
D
82.8%Wilson9,379
4.0%Taft455
13.2%
D+78.8
D+32.8
D+59.2
11,327
D
73.0%Bryan9,054
27.0%Taft3,352
0.0%
D+46.0
R+19.9
D+55.5
12,406
D
82.6%Parker8,315
16.8%Roosevelt1,691
0.5%
D+65.8
D+36.8
D+85.5
10,061
D
64.5%Bryan14,407
35.5%McKinley7,927
0.0%
D+29.0
D+30.6
D+36.6
22,337
R
49.2%Bryan11,824
50.8%McKinley12,206
0.1%
R+1.6
R+27.1
D+4.5
24,049
D
51.3%Cleveland9,243
25.7%Harrison4,641
23.0%
D+25.5
—
D+23.9
18,032
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
50.7%50,724
47.8%47,745
99,980
2020
D
54.4%83,314
42.5%65,109
153,212
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+24.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+6.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 17 points more Democratic.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
205,744
134,616
45,898
25,152
78
2012
218,084
137,711
46,498
33,596
279
2016
215,757
128,906
45,261
41,112
478
2020
213,951
115,880
47,226
49,939
906
2022
208,783
107,009
46,570
54,386
818
2024
214,239
100,427
48,376
63,850
1,586
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+856 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −9,125 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,534
2012
−2,227
2013
−2,330
2014
−1,764
2015
−2,160
2016
−1,052
2017
−1,113
2018
−1,441
2019
−554
2021
−255
2022
+749
2023
+1,840
2024
+1,860
2025
+856
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC sits in the Carolinas. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 35.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.9 points.
A population of 288,848, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,393 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia-Sumter-Orangeburg, SC and Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR.
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How did Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic by 6.9 points (D+6.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 150,147 votes cast, 79,572 went Democratic and 69,220 went Republican.
When did Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina?
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina has a population of 288,848 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina is $55,393 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 29 went Democratic and 4 went Republican.
