† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
6 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
GroupLexington-Fayette, KYKentuckyUnited States
English15.3%14.5%9.5%
German11.9%12.7%12.5%
Irish11.1%11.0%9.4%
American9.8%11.5%5.3%
Scottish2.5%2.0%1.3%
Italian2.3%2.0%4.8%
Scotch-Irish1.6%0.8%—
French1.5%1.1%1.6%
African American†9.5%6.6%9.9%
African0.3%0.5%0.5%
Nigerian0.3%—0.2%
Mexican5.1%2.4%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.5%0.5%1.8%
Cuban0.4%0.7%0.7%
Honduran0.4%—0.3%
Guatemalan0.3%0.3%0.5%
Venezuelan0.2%——
Panamanian0.2%——
Chinese0.7%—1.3%
Asian Indian0.5%0.3%1.4%
Nepalese0.4%——
Japanese0.3%—0.2%
Korean0.2%—0.4%
Filipino0.2%—0.9%
Cambodian0.2%——
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
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Kentucky
United States
Median age
36.8
39.2
39.1
Age 18–24
11.9%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.4%
17.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Kentucky
United States
Median household income
$71,865
$63,726
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.8%
16.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
42.1%
27.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Kentucky
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
12.0%
6.8%
22.3%
Spanish
6.1%
3.4%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.2%
0.5%
2.0%
Other languages
1.0%
0.5%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Kentucky
United States
Catholic
5.8%
7.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
27.0%
31.3%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
52.6%
50.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
8.1%
5.5%
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.
Lexington-Fayette, KY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+15.1%
1896
−5.0%
1900
+1.2%
1904
+12.8%
1908
+8.9%
1912
+20.1%
1916
+13.7%
1920
+15.4%
1924
+4.5%
1928
−18.7%
1932
+24.0%
1936
+19.1%
1940
+19.7%
1944
+19.8%
1948
+20.9%
1952
+1.7%
1956
−10.5%
1960
−13.2%
1964
+22.9%
1968
−11.2%
1972
−36.1%
1976
−4.2%
1980
−3.4%
1984
−29.3%
1988
−19.7%
1992
−4.8%
1996
−0.9%
2000
−12.3%
2004
−14.4%
2008
−6.3%
2012
−10.2%
2016
−6.9%
2020
+2.2%
2024
−1.4%
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
48.3%Harris117,200
49.7%Trump120,601
2.1%
R+1.4
R+3.6
D+0.1
242,804
D
50.0%Biden125,564
47.8%Trump120,086
2.2%
D+2.2
D+9.1
R+2.3
251,159
R
43.2%Clinton96,092
50.1%Trump111,396
6.7%
R+6.9
D+3.4
R+9.0
222,412
R
43.8%Obama88,799
54.0%Romney109,549
2.2%
R+10.2
R+3.9
R+14.1
202,743
R
46.2%Obama94,151
52.5%McCain106,991
1.3%
R+6.3
D+8.1
R+13.6
203,838
R
42.4%Kerry83,134
56.8%Bush111,408
0.9%
R+14.4
R+2.1
R+12.0
196,242
R
42.3%Gore69,343
54.6%Bush89,589
3.1%
R+12.3
R+11.4
R+12.9
164,036
R
45.7%Clinton64,245
46.6%Dole65,566
7.7%
R+0.9
D+3.8
R+9.5
140,620
R
39.3%Clinton56,657
44.0%Bush63,516
16.7%
R+4.8
D+15.0
R+10.3
144,308
R
39.6%Dukakis48,587
59.4%Bush72,753
1.0%
R+19.7
D+9.6
R+12.0
122,550
R
34.9%Mondale42,480
64.2%Reagan78,247
0.9%
R+29.3
R+26.0
R+11.1
121,869
R
44.9%Carter49,186
48.3%Reagan52,908
6.8%
R+3.4
D+0.8
D+6.3
109,560
R
46.7%Carter44,693
50.8%Ford48,679
2.5%
R+4.2
D+31.9
R+6.2
95,768
R
30.8%McGovern27,887
66.9%Nixon60,485
2.3%
R+36.1
R+24.8
R+12.9
90,423
R
34.7%Humphrey26,794
45.9%Nixon35,481
19.4%
R+11.2
R+34.2
R+10.6
77,240
D
61.2%Johnson42,338
38.3%Goldwater26,493
0.4%
D+22.9
D+36.1
D+0.3
69,127
R
43.4%Kennedy29,228
56.6%Nixon38,079
0.0%
R+13.2
R+2.7
R+13.3
67,307
R
44.3%Stevenson27,378
54.8%Eisenhower33,859
0.9%
R+10.5
R+12.2
D+4.9
61,794
D
50.7%Stevenson29,302
49.0%Eisenhower28,312
0.3%
D+1.7
R+19.2
D+12.5
57,795
D
58.7%Truman28,080
37.8%Dewey18,072
3.5%
D+20.9
D+1.1
D+16.4
47,812
D
59.6%Roosevelt29,210
39.8%Dewey19,496
0.6%
D+19.8
D+0.1
D+12.3
49,003
D
59.7%Roosevelt33,542
40.0%Willkie22,469
0.3%
D+19.7
D+0.7
D+9.8
56,180
D
59.3%Roosevelt32,049
40.2%Landon21,746
0.5%
D+19.1
R+5.0
R+5.2
54,076
D
61.7%Roosevelt36,069
37.7%Hoover22,021
0.7%
D+24.0
D+42.8
D+6.2
58,473
R
40.6%Smith22,937
59.3%Hoover33,534
0.1%
R+18.7
R+23.2
R+1.3
56,527
D
51.5%Davis27,071
47.0%Coolidge24,718
1.4%
D+4.5
R+10.9
D+29.7
52,538
D
57.3%Cox34,722
41.9%Harding25,394
0.7%
D+15.4
D+1.7
D+41.6
60,560
D
56.4%Wilson17,807
42.7%Hughes13,482
0.9%
D+13.7
R+6.4
D+10.6
31,566
D
53.3%Wilson15,379
33.2%Taft9,581
13.5%
D+20.1
D+11.2
D+0.5
28,865
D
53.7%Bryan16,020
44.7%Taft13,353
1.6%
D+8.9
R+3.8
D+18.5
29,855
D
55.5%Parker15,607
42.8%Roosevelt12,017
1.7%
D+12.8
D+11.6
D+32.4
28,108
D
49.9%Bryan14,822
48.7%McKinley14,469
1.3%
D+1.2
D+6.2
D+8.7
29,690
R
46.2%Bryan13,414
51.2%McKinley14,872
2.5%
R+5.0
R+20.1
D+1.1
29,019
D
55.3%Cleveland12,257
40.2%Harrison8,907
4.5%
D+15.1
—
D+13.5
22,150
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
D
51.6%90,382
48.4%84,790
175,228
2020
D
50.3%126,650
46.5%116,861
251,560
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+6.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+1.4
Lexington-Fayette, KY registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 8.3-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Lexington-Fayette, KY in Lexington-Fayette, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,520
2012
+1,880
2013
+1,191
2014
+632
2015
+2,565
2016
+1,881
2017
+1,526
2018
+227
2019
−64
2021
−1,883
2022
−59
2023
−594
2024
−626
2025
−488
Lexington anchors the Bluegrass region as Kentucky's second-largest metro, where a large university population and white-collar professional growth have gradually narrowed margins that once ran heavily in one direction.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 36.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.4 points.
A population of 522,560, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,865 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Athens-Clarke County, GA and Bloomington, IL.
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How did Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 1.4 points (R+1.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 242,804 votes cast, 117,200 went Democratic and 120,601 went Republican.
When did Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky?
Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky has a population of 522,560 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky is $71,865 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lexington-Fayette, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
