† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
1 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
GroupEast Stroudsburg, PAPennsylvaniaUnited States
German16.6%21.6%12.5%
Irish14.3%14.8%9.4%
Italian12.0%10.6%4.8%
Polish5.4%5.4%2.2%
English5.3%8.3%9.5%
American4.8%4.4%5.3%
French1.4%—1.6%
Scottish1.1%1.1%1.3%
Puerto Rican8.9%3.7%1.8%
Dominican2.2%1.4%0.7%
Ecuadorian1.8%——
Mexican0.8%1.4%11.3%
Colombian0.7%0.2%0.4%
Peruvian0.7%——
Guatemalan0.4%0.2%0.5%
Salvadoran0.4%—0.7%
African American†9.7%8.7%9.9%
Jamaican1.4%0.3%0.4%
African0.5%0.4%0.5%
Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.4%——
West Indian0.4%——
Haitian0.2%0.2%0.3%
Guyanese0.2%——
Asian Indian0.7%1.2%1.4%
Chinese0.6%0.9%1.3%
Filipino0.6%0.2%0.9%
Korean0.2%0.2%0.4%
Bangladeshi0.2%——
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
East Stroudsburg, PA
Pennsylvania
United States
Median age
44.1
41.2
39.1
Age 18–24
9.1%
8.9%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
19.6%
19.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
East Stroudsburg, PA
Pennsylvania
United States
Median household income
$83,565
$77,971
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.7%
11.7%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
27.4%
35.2%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
East Stroudsburg, PA
Pennsylvania
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
16.8%
12.4%
22.3%
Spanish
9.8%
5.6%
13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic
1.7%
0.8%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
1.9%
1.7%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
East Stroudsburg, PA
Pennsylvania
United States
Catholic
15.3%
21.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
8.8%
9.3%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
63.4%
53.1%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.7%
10.3%
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.
East Stroudsburg, PA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+49.5%
1896
+31.6%
1900
+39.6%
1904
+27.2%
1908
+33.7%
1912
+55.8%
1916
+38.7%
1920
+1.7%
1924
+5.6%
1928
−39.1%
1932
+15.2%
1936
+17.3%
1940
+5.3%
1944
−6.1%
1948
−6.0%
1952
−24.5%
1956
−29.2%
1960
−28.1%
1964
+25.5%
1968
−14.2%
1972
−37.6%
1976
−3.4%
1980
−21.6%
1984
−32.3%
1988
−26.8%
1992
−2.9%
1996
−2.0%
2000
−2.8%
2004
−0.0%
2008
+16.3%
2012
+13.3%
2016
+0.8%
2020
+6.4%
2024
−0.8%
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
49.1%Harris42,007
49.9%Trump42,676
0.5%Stein441 +1
R+0.8
R+7.1
D+0.7
85,525
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican49.9%42,676
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic49.1%42,007
Jill SteinIndependent0.5%441
Chase OliverLibertarian0.5%401
D
52.6%Biden44,060
46.2%Trump38,726
1.2%
D+6.4
D+5.6
D+1.9
83,829
D
48.4%Clinton33,918
47.7%Trump33,386
3.9%
D+0.8
R+12.5
R+1.3
70,008
D
55.9%Obama35,221
42.6%Romney26,867
1.5%
D+13.3
R+3.1
D+9.4
63,023
D
57.6%Obama39,453
41.3%McCain28,293
1.0%
D+16.3
D+16.3
D+9.0
68,443
R
49.6%Kerry27,967
49.6%Bush27,971
0.7%
R+0.01
D+2.8
D+2.5
56,342
R
46.8%Gore21,939
49.6%Bush23,265
3.6%
R+2.8
R+0.8
R+3.3
46,878
R
42.4%Clinton16,547
44.4%Dole17,326
13.3%
R+2.0
D+0.9
R+10.5
39,065
R
35.9%Clinton13,468
38.8%Bush14,557
25.3%
R+2.9
D+23.9
R+8.5
37,500
R
36.0%Dukakis9,859
62.8%Bush17,185
1.2%
R+26.8
D+5.6
R+19.0
27,371
R
33.5%Mondale8,193
65.8%Reagan16,109
0.7%
R+32.3
R+10.8
R+14.1
24,474
R
33.9%Carter7,551
55.4%Reagan12,357
10.7%
R+21.6
R+18.2
R+11.8
22,289
R
47.3%Carter9,544
50.7%Ford10,228
1.9%
R+3.4
D+34.3
R+5.5
20,165
R
29.9%McGovern5,619
67.5%Nixon12,701
2.6%
R+37.6
R+23.4
R+14.5
18,814
R
39.1%Humphrey6,946
53.3%Nixon9,465
7.5%
R+14.2
R+39.7
R+13.5
17,747
D
62.4%Johnson10,622
36.9%Goldwater6,281
0.7%
D+25.5
D+53.6
D+2.9
17,019
R
35.6%Kennedy6,312
63.7%Nixon11,299
0.6%
R+28.1
D+1.0
R+28.3
17,726
R
35.1%Stevenson5,506
64.3%Eisenhower10,081
0.6%
R+29.2
R+4.7
R+13.8
15,679
R
37.6%Stevenson5,760
62.1%Eisenhower9,502
0.3%
R+24.5
R+18.4
R+13.7
15,304
R
47.0%Truman5,913
53.0%Dewey6,674
0.0%
R+6.0
±0.0
R+10.5
12,587
R
46.8%Roosevelt5,490
52.9%Dewey6,202
0.3%
R+6.1
R+11.3
R+13.6
11,729
D
52.6%Roosevelt6,670
47.3%Willkie6,001
0.1%
D+5.3
R+12.0
R+4.7
12,687
D
58.3%Roosevelt8,212
41.0%Landon5,778
0.6%
D+17.3
D+2.1
R+7.0
14,079
D
56.8%Roosevelt6,357
41.6%Hoover4,659
1.6%
D+15.2
D+54.2
R+2.6
11,199
R
30.3%Smith3,266
69.4%Hoover7,469
0.3%
R+39.1
R+44.7
R+21.6
10,762
D
49.9%Davis3,901
44.3%Coolidge3,462
5.8%
D+5.6
D+3.9
D+30.8
7,819
D
49.7%Cox3,396
48.0%Harding3,278
2.3%
D+1.7
R+37.0
D+27.9
6,828
D
68.5%Wilson3,348
29.8%Hughes1,456
1.7%
D+38.7
R+17.1
D+35.6
4,886
D
67.5%Wilson3,107
11.6%Taft536
20.9%
D+55.8
D+22.1
D+36.3
4,604
D
65.3%Bryan3,004
31.6%Taft1,454
3.1%
D+33.7
D+6.5
D+43.3
4,599
D
61.7%Parker2,587
34.5%Roosevelt1,446
3.9%
D+27.2
R+12.4
D+46.9
4,196
D
67.6%Bryan3,054
28.0%McKinley1,264
4.4%
D+39.6
D+8.0
D+47.2
4,516
D
63.4%Bryan2,887
31.8%McKinley1,447
4.8%
D+31.6
R+17.8
D+37.7
4,551
D
74.0%Cleveland3,078
24.5%Harrison1,020
1.5%
D+49.5
—
D+47.8
4,159
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
49.0%41,701
48.1%40,872
85,028
2022
D
51.5%30,251
45.5%26,746
58,730
2018
D
55.3%30,626
43.3%23,968
55,412
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+4.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+0.8
East Stroudsburg, PA registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 5.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in East Stroudsburg, PA in East Stroudsburg, PA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−304
2012
−1,549
2013
−1,540
2014
−450
2015
−1,061
2016
−552
2017
+1,360
2018
+1,130
2019
+911
2021
+632
2022
−847
2023
−781
2024
−69
2025
+572
East Stroudsburg anchors Monroe County, a longtime bellwether that shifted sharply toward Republicans in 2016 after decades of competitive results, driven largely by an influx of price-sensitive migrants from the New York metro area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 39.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.8 points.
A population of 167,515, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,565 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ and Monticello, NY.
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How did East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania vote in 2024?
In 2024, East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania voted Republican by 0.8 points (R+0.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 85,525 votes cast, 42,007 went Democratic and 42,676 went Republican.
When did East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania?
East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania has a population of 167,515 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania?
Median household income in East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania is $83,565 — above the national median of $80,734. The Pennsylvania state median is $77,971.
What is the political history of East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in East Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
