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All 4 Census regions

The four Census Bureau regions — Northeast, Midwest, South, and West — each a rollup of its states.

Census regions ranked by presidential margin, one column per election from 1892 to 2024, with the latest demographic snapshot (population, income, $200k+ households, poverty, median age, education, race and ethnicity, language, religion) pinned at the right. Use the column headers to re-sort.

1West	−13.4	+28.7	−2.6	−32.3	−15.5	+21.1	+7.5	−32.0	−37.1	−28.5	+21.0	+34.3	+14.3	+10.9	+3.0	−15.4	−13.0	−2.6	+19.2	−5.0	−18.1	−5.3	−19.6	−20.3	−6.1	+8.4	+7.6	+2.1	+1.2	+14.1	+11.0	+15.2	+16.7	+10.2	79,110,410	$95.2k	—	11.6%	14.0%	38.2	88.0%	36.6%	14.1%	47.1%	4.3%	30.6%	10.6%	32.3%	10.6%	20.8%	55.9%
2Northeast	−2.1	−26.3	−17.1	−23.5	−19.3	+10.7	−9.0	−37.8	−35.0	−13.3	+4.0	+15.9	+5.0	+4.0	−0.6	−11.0	−21.7	+5.6	+36.8	+7.2	−16.1	+3.4	−5.9	−11.2	−1.4	+11.3	+21.7	+17.1	+12.2	+20.0	+18.5	+14.1	+16.9	+9.4	57,414,970	$92.9k	—	11.7%	15.0%	40.6	90.4%	40.4%	17.3%	61.8%	10.5%	15.8%	7.0%	24.3%	6.0%	28.7%	51.5%
3Midwest	−5.0	−6.9	−9.8	−28.7	−11.7	+14.2	−2.0	−33.5	−32.7	−22.5	+15.7	+19.6	+0.2	−1.2	+2.3	−15.6	−17.4	−4.6	+22.9	−3.1	−19.8	−1.3	−10.1	−16.7	−5.5	+5.3	+7.7	−1.1	−2.4	+9.3	+3.0	−4.3	−2.1	−5.8	69,108,736	$77.9k	—	12.0%	15.1%	39.3	91.9%	33.9%	12.8%	72.6%	10.0%	9.1%	3.5%	12.2%	15.4%	17.2%	53.2%
4South	+24.4	+14.1	+14.8	+27.1	+18.1	+43.8	+29.3	+10.4	+18.9	−6.9	+45.0	+45.0	+39.2	+31.7	+20.1	+1.2	−4.4	+2.3	+7.9	−3.0	−37.8	+9.2	−6.1	−23.2	−15.1	+0.3	+1.6	−9.0	−12.9	−4.9	−7.2	−7.8	−5.4	−11.0	129,288,316	$77.5k	—	13.6%	18.1%	39.0	88.8%	33.8%	13.2%	53.6%	18.2%	19.5%	3.8%	20.7%	25.3%	13.5%	47.9%

4 Census regions · 34 elections · 1892–2024Margins are D−R two-party share · MIT Election Lab · VEST · Demographics: ACS 2024 5-year · Religion: 2020 US Religion Census