† 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
7 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
GroupBaltimore-Columbia-Towson, MDMarylandUnited States
German13.3%11.4%12.5%
Irish11.0%9.3%9.4%
English9.0%8.5%9.5%
Italian5.4%4.4%4.8%
American4.2%4.1%5.3%
Polish3.4%2.6%2.2%
Scottish1.4%1.1%1.3%
French1.1%1.1%1.6%
African American†24.3%23.6%9.9%
Nigerian1.1%1.1%0.2%
African1.0%1.2%0.5%
Jamaican0.6%0.7%0.4%
Ethiopian0.3%0.7%—
Ghanaian0.2%0.3%—
Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.2%0.2%—
Mexican1.6%2.0%11.3%
Salvadoran1.4%3.5%0.7%
Puerto Rican1.3%1.2%1.8%
Guatemalan0.5%1.2%0.5%
Honduran0.5%0.7%0.3%
Cuban0.3%—0.7%
Dominican0.3%0.5%0.7%
Colombian0.2%0.4%0.4%
Asian Indian1.6%1.7%1.4%
Chinese1.1%1.3%1.3%
Korean0.8%0.8%0.4%
Filipino0.7%0.9%0.9%
Pakistani0.4%0.3%—
Vietnamese0.3%0.4%0.6%
Nepalese0.2%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
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Maryland
United States
Median age
39.1
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.5%
8.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.7%
16.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Maryland
United States
Median household income
$103,525
$103,678
$84,427
Poverty rate
9.8%
9.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
44.0%
43.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Maryland
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
14.7%
21.1%
22.3%
Spanish
5.4%
9.6%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
2.3%
2.5%
2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)
1.0%
1.2%
1.1%
Other languages
1.7%
2.5%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Maryland
United States
Catholic
12.4%
14.7%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
10.6%
11.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
60.7%
56.6%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.0%
6.6%
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.
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+15.2%
1896
−15.4%
1900
No data
1904
No data
1908
No data
1912
+82.5%
1916
+10.3%
1920
−15.3%
1924
−3.3%
1928
−8.3%
1932
+30.7%
1936
+30.9%
1940
+21.5%
1944
+9.3%
1948
+1.9%
1952
−7.5%
1956
−21.7%
1960
+11.6%
1964
+34.9%
1968
+6.2%
1972
−24.0%
1976
+7.2%
1980
+10.2%
1984
−4.8%
1988
−2.9%
1992
+13.0%
1996
+12.2%
2000
+11.3%
2004
+5.7%
2008
+16.8%
2012
+18.0%
2016
+18.3%
2020
+26.0%
2024
+23.3%
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
59.9%Harris852,369
36.6%Trump521,384
1.0%Stein14,904 +20
D+23.3
R+2.8
D+24.7
1,422,620
All 23 candidates in 2024 · 21 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic59.9%852,369
Donald J TrumpRepublican36.6%521,384
Jill Ellen SteinIndependent1.0%14,904
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent1.0%13,897
OtherAll other candidates0.7%10,001
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%8,561
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%587
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%450
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%410
Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent0.0%18
Joseph KishoreIndependent0.0%11
Benjamin L SchwalbIndependent0.0%4
Douglas JenkinsIndependent0.0%4
Brian Larry KienitzIndependent0.0%3
John ChengIndependent0.0%3
Shondra IrvingIndependent0.0%3
Carol AsherIndependent0.0%2
Lester H Waller Jr.Independent0.0%2
President R BoddieIndependent0.0%2
Susan Maude BuchserIndependent0.0%2
Michael YostIndependent0.0%1
Richard MayersIndependent0.0%1
William P StoddenIndependent0.0%1
D
61.7%Biden878,185
35.7%Trump507,676
2.7%
D+26.0
D+7.8
D+21.6
1,423,875
D
56.8%Clinton733,718
38.5%Trump497,637
4.7%
D+18.3
D+0.2
D+16.2
1,292,656
D
57.8%Obama746,052
39.8%Romney513,164
2.4%
D+18.0
D+1.3
D+14.2
1,290,428
D
57.4%Obama725,858
40.7%McCain513,811
1.9%
D+16.8
D+11.0
D+9.5
1,263,858
D
52.2%Kerry602,806
46.5%Bush536,565
1.3%
D+5.7
R+5.6
D+8.2
1,154,390
D
53.9%Gore529,648
42.6%Bush418,775
3.4%
D+11.3
R+0.9
D+10.8
982,136
D
52.0%Clinton449,711
39.8%Dole344,488
8.2%
D+12.2
R+0.9
D+3.6
865,311
D
48.8%Clinton489,922
35.8%Bush359,098
15.4%
D+13.0
D+16.0
D+7.5
1,003,874
R
48.2%Dukakis417,858
51.1%Bush443,183
0.7%
R+2.9
D+1.9
D+4.8
867,309
R
47.3%Mondale411,432
52.1%Reagan453,257
0.6%
R+4.8
R+15.0
D+13.4
869,474
D
51.0%Carter418,928
40.9%Reagan335,428
8.1%
D+10.2
D+3.0
D+19.9
820,916
D
53.6%Carter405,269
46.4%Ford351,057
0.0%
D+7.2
D+31.1
D+5.1
756,326
R
37.2%McGovern263,239
61.2%Nixon432,723
1.5%
R+24.0
R+30.1
R+0.8
706,822
D
46.4%Humphrey306,922
40.2%Nixon266,165
13.4%
D+6.2
R+28.7
D+6.9
661,502
D
67.4%Johnson430,088
32.6%Goldwater207,772
0.0%
D+34.9
D+23.3
D+12.3
637,910
D
55.8%Kennedy346,805
44.2%Nixon274,819
0.0%
D+11.6
D+33.3
D+11.4
621,626
R
39.1%Stevenson222,012
60.9%Eisenhower345,148
0.0%
R+21.7
R+14.2
R+6.3
567,160
R
45.7%Stevenson260,178
53.2%Eisenhower302,776
1.0%
R+7.5
R+9.4
D+3.3
568,764
D
49.6%Truman190,316
47.7%Dewey183,020
2.7%
D+1.9
R+7.4
R+2.6
383,507
D
54.6%Roosevelt215,526
45.4%Dewey178,937
0.0%
D+9.3
R+12.2
D+1.8
394,463
D
60.2%Roosevelt262,062
38.8%Willkie168,611
1.0%
D+21.5
R+9.4
D+11.5
435,032
D
65.1%Roosevelt270,795
34.2%Landon142,332
0.6%
D+30.9
D+0.2
D+6.6
415,719
D
63.9%Roosevelt215,095
33.2%Hoover111,909
2.8%
D+30.7
D+38.9
D+12.9
336,583
R
45.5%Smith161,022
53.8%Hoover190,301
0.6%
R+8.3
R+5.0
D+9.2
353,510
R
39.7%Davis87,810
43.0%Coolidge95,132
17.3%
R+3.3
D+12.0
D+21.9
221,266
R
40.8%Cox115,489
56.1%Harding158,881
3.1%
R+15.3
R+25.7
D+10.9
283,028
D
54.1%Wilson91,043
43.8%Hughes73,635
2.1%
D+10.3
R+72.2
D+7.2
168,263
D
102.0%Wilson150,460
19.4%Taft28,664
0.0%
D+82.5
—
D+63.0
147,563
—
3762.9%Bryan140,734
1965.5%Taft73,510
0.0%
No data
—
—
3,740
—
5324.2%Parker163,026
2172.6%Roosevelt66,526
0.0%
No data
—
—
3,062
—
6983.7%Bryan76,402
7604.6%McKinley83,194
0.0%
No data
—
—
1,094
R
40.4%Bryan62,617
55.9%McKinley86,525
3.7%
R+15.4
R+30.7
R+9.4
154,863
D
56.4%Cleveland72,952
41.1%Harrison53,223
2.5%
D+15.2
—
D+13.6
129,385
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
50.6%719,814
46.4%660,556
1,422,208
2022
D
67.0%556,173
32.8%272,324
829,777
2018
D
60.4%657,247
33.6%365,698
1,088,733
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+24.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+23.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.3 points.
Domestic migration in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+97
2012
+1,614
2013
−2,585
2014
−5,723
2015
−9,000
2016
−12,135
2017
−9,945
2018
−9,175
2019
−10,899
2021
−7,111
2022
−17,391
2023
−15,077
2024
−8,308
2025
−5,138
Baltimore city's majority-Black electorate and its surrounding Anne Arundel and Howard County suburbs produce some of Maryland's sharpest intra-metro contrasts, with presidential margins swinging 40+ points between jurisdictions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 24.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.3 points.
A population of 2,849,436, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,525 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC.
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How did Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland vote in 2024?
In 2024, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland voted Democratic by 23.3 points (D+23.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,422,620 votes cast, 852,369 went Democratic and 521,384 went Republican.
When did Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland has a population of 2,849,436 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Median household income in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland is $103,525 — above the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
