† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
2 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
GroupHuntsville, ALAlabamaUnited States
English14.6%12.1%9.5%
American11.2%12.8%5.3%
Irish9.5%8.0%9.4%
German9.2%6.4%12.5%
Scottish2.2%2.0%1.3%
Italian2.2%1.7%4.8%
French1.5%1.1%1.6%
Scotch-Irish1.4%1.2%—
African American†20.0%24.6%9.9%
African0.6%0.6%0.5%
Jamaican0.2%—0.4%
Nigerian0.2%—0.2%
West Indian0.2%——
Mexican3.8%3.2%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.0%0.5%1.8%
Cuban0.3%0.2%0.7%
Colombian0.3%—0.4%
Guatemalan0.2%0.5%0.5%
Dominican0.2%—0.7%
Venezuelan0.2%——
Asian Indian0.5%0.3%1.4%
Chinese0.5%0.2%1.3%
Korean0.4%0.2%0.4%
Filipino0.3%—0.9%
Vietnamese0.2%—0.6%
Japanese0.2%—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
Huntsville, AL
Alabama
United States
Median age
38.8
39.4
39.1
Age 18–24
9.2%
9.4%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.8%
17.7%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Huntsville, AL
Alabama
United States
Median household income
$85,881
$63,999
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.1%
15.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
42.9%
28.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Huntsville, AL
Alabama
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
7.4%
6.1%
22.3%
Spanish
4.2%
3.9%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Huntsville, AL
Alabama
United States
Catholic
7.4%
5.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
36.8%
42.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
38.8%
36.6%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
8.2%
6.5%
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.
Huntsville, AL
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+44.7%
1896
+17.8%
1900
+24.4%
1904
+78.5%
1908
+72.1%
1912
+73.6%
1916
+82.7%
1920
+70.8%
1924
+73.2%
1928
+17.0%
1932
+83.1%
1936
+85.8%
1940
+85.3%
1944
+85.4%
1948
−10.5%
1952
+69.0%
1956
+56.9%
1960
+40.9%
1964
−50.6%
1968
−8.3%
1972
−48.7%
1976
+29.4%
1980
+4.4%
1984
−28.8%
1988
−33.2%
1992
−11.0%
1996
−9.0%
2000
−14.0%
2004
−21.9%
2008
−19.8%
2012
−23.3%
2016
−23.3%
2020
−14.9%
2024
−16.3%
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
R
40.8%Harris102,405
57.1%Trump143,317
2.1%
R+16.3
R+1.4
R+14.8
250,949
R
41.4%Biden100,958
56.3%Trump137,420
2.3%
R+14.9
D+8.4
R+19.4
244,002
R
36.4%Clinton72,290
59.7%Trump118,587
3.9%
R+23.3
±0.0
R+25.4
198,553
R
37.7%Obama71,844
61.0%Romney116,179
1.3%
R+23.3
R+3.5
R+27.1
190,518
R
39.5%Obama73,653
59.3%McCain110,563
1.2%
R+19.8
D+2.1
R+27.1
186,450
R
38.6%Kerry61,770
60.5%Bush96,875
0.9%
R+21.9
R+7.9
R+19.5
160,135
R
41.8%Gore57,191
55.8%Bush76,355
2.5%
R+14.0
R+5.0
R+14.5
136,952
R
41.4%Clinton50,304
50.4%Dole61,252
8.2%
R+9.0
D+2.0
R+17.5
121,540
R
36.4%Clinton47,061
47.4%Bush61,306
16.3%
R+11.0
D+22.2
R+16.6
129,431
R
33.0%Dukakis31,255
66.2%Bush62,661
0.8%
R+33.2
R+4.4
R+25.5
94,654
R
35.0%Mondale32,291
63.9%Reagan58,851
1.1%
R+28.8
R+33.2
R+10.6
92,144
D
49.3%Carter38,649
44.8%Reagan35,178
5.9%
D+4.4
R+24.9
D+14.2
78,456
D
63.9%Carter44,300
34.6%Ford23,956
1.5%
D+29.4
D+78.0
D+27.3
69,287
R
24.7%McGovern15,187
73.4%Nixon45,087
1.9%
R+48.7
R+40.3
R+25.5
61,436
O
14.3%Humphrey8,893
22.6%Nixon14,083
63.1%
Wallace +40.5
D+42.3
R+7.6
62,328
R
0.0%Johnson0
50.6%Goldwater16,656
49.4%
R+50.6
R+91.6
R+73.2
32,900
D
70.2%Kennedy15,106
29.2%Nixon6,290
0.6%
D+40.9
R+16.0
D+40.8
21,532
D
78.1%Stevenson13,199
21.2%Eisenhower3,582
0.7%
D+56.9
R+12.1
D+72.3
16,900
D
84.2%Stevenson12,060
15.2%Eisenhower2,172
0.7%
D+69.0
D+79.5
D+79.8
14,326
O
0.0%Truman0
10.5%Dewey578
89.5%
Thurmond +79.0
R+95.9
R+15.0
5,508
D
92.5%Roosevelt7,556
7.2%Dewey584
0.3%
D+85.4
D+0.1
D+77.9
8,165
D
92.5%Roosevelt8,456
7.2%Willkie661
0.3%
D+85.3
R+0.5
D+75.3
9,143
D
92.5%Roosevelt8,523
6.7%Landon621
0.7%
D+85.8
D+2.7
D+61.5
9,210
D
91.2%Roosevelt7,462
8.1%Hoover666
0.7%
D+83.1
D+66.1
D+65.3
8,182
D
58.5%Smith4,370
41.5%Hoover3,102
0.0%
D+17.0
R+56.2
D+34.4
7,474
D
85.1%Davis3,581
12.0%Coolidge504
2.9%
D+73.2
D+2.4
D+98.3
4,206
D
85.0%Cox4,634
14.2%Harding774
0.8%
D+70.8
R+12.0
D+97.0
5,454
D
90.3%Wilson3,656
7.6%Hughes307
2.1%
D+82.7
D+9.1
D+79.6
4,048
D
79.7%Wilson3,158
6.1%Taft240
14.3%
D+73.6
D+1.6
D+54.1
3,963
D
85.1%Bryan3,356
13.1%Taft515
1.8%
D+72.1
R+6.4
D+81.6
3,942
D
88.9%Parker3,172
10.3%Roosevelt369
0.8%
D+78.5
D+54.1
D+98.2
3,570
D
61.5%Bryan4,704
37.1%McKinley2,836
1.5%
D+24.4
D+6.6
D+32.0
7,653
D
57.9%Bryan5,868
40.1%McKinley4,068
2.0%
D+17.8
R+27.0
D+23.8
10,135
O
44.9%Cleveland4,493
0.2%Harrison21
54.8%
Weaver +9.9
—
D+43.1
9,997
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
34.9%53,013
61.9%93,999
151,840
2020
R
45.3%110,042
54.5%132,545
243,120
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Huntsville, AL
Year
Total registered
2018
332,077
2020
374,805
2022
384,764
2024
415,736
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+12,351 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +85,930 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Huntsville, AL in Huntsville, AL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,383
2012
+2,499
2013
+3,516
2014
+2,660
2015
+2,162
2016
+3,006
2017
+4,688
2018
+5,672
2019
+7,266
2021
+9,104
2022
+8,885
2023
+10,584
2024
+10,154
2025
+12,351
Home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and a dense concentration of defense contractors, the Huntsville metro has drawn a highly educated, engineering-heavy workforce that has gradually compressed Republican margins compared with the rest of Alabama.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 50.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.3 points.
A population of 516,951, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,881 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Birmingham, AL and Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN.
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In 2024, Huntsville, AL, Alabama voted Republican by 16.3 points (R+16.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 250,949 votes cast, 102,405 went Democratic and 143,317 went Republican.
When did Huntsville, AL, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Huntsville, AL, Alabama voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Huntsville, AL, Alabama?
Huntsville, AL, Alabama has a population of 516,951 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Huntsville, AL, Alabama?
Median household income in Huntsville, AL, Alabama is $85,881 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Huntsville, AL, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Huntsville, AL, Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
