† 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
GroupBaton Rouge, LALouisianaUnited States
French9.6%9.6%1.6%
English7.8%7.3%9.5%
American6.9%7.4%5.3%
German6.5%6.9%12.5%
Irish6.4%6.6%9.4%
Italian4.8%4.3%4.8%
French Canadian1.3%1.6%—
Scottish0.9%1.0%1.3%
African American†32.8%29.3%9.9%
African0.7%0.8%0.5%
Nigerian0.2%—0.2%
Mexican1.8%2.1%11.3%
Honduran1.6%1.6%0.3%
Spanish0.8%0.7%—
Salvadoran0.3%—0.7%
Puerto Rican0.3%0.4%1.8%
Cuban0.2%0.3%0.7%
Spaniard0.2%0.2%—
Vietnamese0.6%0.5%0.6%
Asian Indian0.4%0.2%1.4%
Chinese0.3%0.2%1.3%
Filipino0.2%—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
Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median age
36.1
38
39.1
Age 18–24
11.4%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.2%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median household income
$70,666
$60,756
$84,427
Poverty rate
16.7%
19.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
30.8%
27.1%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
7.7%
8.5%
22.3%
Spanish
4.3%
4.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana
United States
Catholic
20.0%
26.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
25.2%
25.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
43.5%
36.8%
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.
Baton Rouge, LA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+58.9%
1896
+31.5%
1900
+47.2%
1904
+78.1%
1908
+79.8%
1912
+67.7%
1916
+67.8%
1920
+38.5%
1924
+47.9%
1928
+40.7%
1932
+74.3%
1936
+71.3%
1940
+73.6%
1944
+67.1%
1948
+21.8%
1952
+15.2%
1956
−6.5%
1960
+27.7%
1964
−11.1%
1968
+9.0%
1972
−29.5%
1976
+11.6%
1980
+2.8%
1984
−16.7%
1988
−9.2%
1992
+0.4%
1996
+9.0%
2000
−8.1%
2004
−15.3%
2008
−14.1%
2012
−12.4%
2016
−13.2%
2020
−11.8%
2024
−14.8%
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
R
41.7%Harris163,475
56.5%Trump221,412
1.8%
R+14.8
R+3.0
R+13.3
391,849
R
43.2%Biden178,379
54.9%Trump226,976
1.9%
R+11.8
D+1.4
R+16.2
413,094
R
41.5%Clinton158,492
54.7%Trump208,833
3.9%
R+13.2
R+0.8
R+15.3
382,124
R
43.0%Obama162,755
55.4%Romney209,668
1.6%
R+12.4
D+1.7
R+16.2
378,613
R
42.3%Obama155,661
56.4%McCain207,524
1.4%
R+14.1
D+1.2
R+21.4
368,245
R
41.9%Kerry140,114
57.2%Bush191,318
0.9%
R+15.3
R+7.2
R+12.8
334,590
R
44.8%Gore134,473
52.9%Bush158,958
2.3%
R+8.1
R+17.2
R+8.7
300,468
D
50.6%Clinton151,355
41.6%Dole124,403
7.7%
D+9.0
D+8.6
D+0.5
298,878
D
44.1%Clinton128,494
43.7%Bush127,208
12.2%
D+0.4
D+9.6
R+5.1
291,092
R
44.7%Dukakis115,176
53.9%Bush138,860
1.4%
R+9.2
D+7.5
R+1.5
257,720
R
41.3%Mondale110,618
58.0%Reagan155,297
0.8%
R+16.7
R+19.5
D+1.5
267,968
D
49.8%Carter115,873
47.0%Reagan109,344
3.2%
D+2.8
R+8.8
D+12.5
232,648
D
54.6%Carter97,539
43.0%Ford76,768
2.4%
D+11.6
D+41.1
D+9.6
178,577
R
31.7%McGovern43,161
61.2%Nixon83,296
7.1%
R+29.5
R+38.5
R+6.3
136,166
O
29.8%Humphrey41,760
20.7%Nixon29,072
49.5%
Wallace +19.8
D+20.1
D+9.7
140,356
R
44.4%Johnson47,595
55.6%Goldwater59,491
0.0%
R+11.1
R+38.8
R+33.7
107,086
D
52.8%Kennedy49,165
25.1%Nixon23,350
22.1%
D+27.7
D+34.2
D+27.6
93,073
R
45.1%Stevenson30,896
51.6%Eisenhower35,316
3.3%
R+6.5
R+21.6
D+8.9
68,438
D
57.6%Stevenson40,278
42.4%Eisenhower29,679
0.0%
D+15.2
R+6.7
D+25.9
69,957
O
39.5%Truman15,382
17.7%Dewey6,884
42.9%
Thurmond +3.4
R+45.2
D+17.3
38,972
D
83.5%Roosevelt27,651
16.5%Dewey5,454
0.0%
D+67.1
R+6.5
D+59.6
33,105
D
86.8%Roosevelt28,750
13.2%Willkie4,376
0.0%
D+73.6
D+2.3
D+63.6
33,126
D
85.6%Roosevelt22,456
14.4%Landon3,765
0.0%
D+71.3
R+3.1
D+47.0
26,223
D
87.1%Roosevelt17,279
12.8%Hoover2,530
0.2%
D+74.3
D+33.7
D+56.5
19,842
D
70.3%Smith13,192
29.7%Hoover5,566
0.0%
D+40.7
R+7.2
D+58.1
18,758
D
73.5%Davis6,557
25.6%Coolidge2,286
0.9%
D+47.9
D+9.3
D+73.0
8,923
D
69.3%Cox6,229
30.7%Harding2,764
0.0%
D+38.5
R+29.3
D+64.7
8,994
D
79.7%Wilson5,083
11.8%Hughes755
8.5%
D+67.8
D+0.2
D+64.7
6,380
D
75.9%Wilson4,160
8.2%Taft452
15.9%
D+67.7
R+12.2
D+48.1
5,481
D
89.4%Bryan5,171
9.5%Taft551
1.1%
D+79.8
D+1.7
D+89.4
5,786
D
89.0%Parker4,642
10.9%Roosevelt567
0.1%
D+78.1
D+30.9
D+97.8
5,215
D
73.6%Bryan4,960
26.4%McKinley1,779
0.0%
D+47.2
D+15.7
D+54.8
6,739
D
64.7%Bryan7,543
33.2%McKinley3,866
2.1%
D+31.5
R+27.3
D+37.6
11,657
D
79.4%Cleveland12,323
20.6%Harrison3,192
0.0%
D+58.9
—
D+57.2
15,515
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
22.7%62,413
57.3%157,956
275,547
2020
R
21.1%84,847
56.9%228,672
402,228
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+5.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+14.8
Baton Rouge, LA registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 20-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
568,421 registered voters · 2024
Democratic39.2%Republican33.7%Other27.1%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−773 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −27,657 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Baton Rouge, LA in Baton Rouge, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,158
2012
−522
2013
+476
2014
−306
2015
−1,053
2016
−118
2017
−7,164
2018
−4,207
2019
−3,639
2021
+294
2022
−3,221
2023
−3,203
2024
−2,063
2025
−773
The Baton Rouge metro divides sharply between a majority-Black urban core that trends heavily Democratic and suburban parishes to the north and east that have shifted decisively Republican over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.8 points in 1908 and a Republican high of 29.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.8 points.
A population of 875,313, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,666 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of New Orleans-Metairie, LA and Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX.
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In 2024, Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana voted Republican by 14.8 points (R+14.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 391,849 votes cast, 163,475 went Democratic and 221,412 went Republican.
When did Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana?
Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana has a population of 875,313 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana is $70,666 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
