† 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
GroupManchester-Nashua, NHNew HampshireUnited States
Irish19.9%20.6%9.4%
English14.5%18.3%9.5%
French10.3%10.5%1.6%
Italian10.0%9.8%4.8%
French Canadian8.2%7.2%—
German8.1%8.6%12.5%
Polish3.7%—2.2%
American3.3%4.2%5.3%
Puerto Rican2.7%1.4%1.8%
Dominican2.0%0.8%0.7%
Mexican1.2%0.8%11.3%
Colombian0.5%0.2%0.4%
Honduran0.3%—0.3%
Salvadoran0.3%—0.7%
Spanish0.3%0.2%—
Guatemalan0.2%—0.5%
Asian Indian1.6%0.7%1.4%
Chinese0.5%0.4%1.3%
Filipino0.4%0.3%0.9%
Vietnamese0.4%0.2%0.6%
Korean0.3%0.2%0.4%
Cambodian0.3%——
Nepalese0.3%——
African American†0.8%0.5%9.9%
African0.3%—0.5%
Haitian0.3%—0.3%
Jamaican0.2%—0.4%
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
Manchester-Nashua, NH
New Hampshire
United States
Median age
41
43.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.2%
8.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.3%
20.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Manchester-Nashua, NH
New Hampshire
United States
Median household income
$103,545
$99,031
$84,427
Poverty rate
6.7%
7.3%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
41.5%
40.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Manchester-Nashua, NH
New Hampshire
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
13.9%
8.0%
22.3%
Spanish
5.3%
2.6%
13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
1.8%
1.2%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
2.5%
1.4%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.1%
0.6%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Manchester-Nashua, NH
New Hampshire
United States
Catholic
16.3%
16.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.8%
4.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
72.3%
72.8%
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.
Manchester-Nashua, NH
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−5.7%
1896
−42.1%
1900
−20.0%
1904
−17.2%
1908
−17.6%
1912
+4.0%
1916
+4.7%
1920
−10.2%
1924
−14.3%
1928
+9.2%
1932
+16.3%
1936
+19.1%
1940
+23.8%
1944
+24.0%
1948
+19.1%
1952
+0.6%
1956
−11.1%
1960
+15.1%
1964
+34.2%
1968
+3.3%
1972
−30.1%
1976
−8.0%
1980
−32.3%
1984
−41.8%
1988
−31.3%
1992
−2.0%
1996
+8.1%
2000
−1.8%
2004
−2.9%
2008
+3.7%
2012
+1.1%
2016
−0.2%
2020
+7.6%
2024
+2.9%
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
50.7%Harris118,777
47.8%Trump112,059
1.5%
D+2.9
R+4.8
D+4.3
234,443
D
52.8%Biden122,344
45.2%Trump104,625
2.0%
D+7.6
D+7.8
D+3.2
231,659
R
46.5%Clinton99,589
46.7%Trump100,013
6.8%
R+0.2
R+1.3
R+2.3
214,157
D
49.7%Obama102,303
48.6%Romney99,991
1.6%
D+1.1
R+2.6
R+2.7
205,667
D
51.4%Obama104,820
47.7%McCain97,178
0.9%
D+3.7
D+6.6
R+3.5
203,799
R
48.2%Kerry94,121
51.1%Bush99,724
0.7%
R+2.9
R+1.0
R+0.4
195,247
R
46.8%Gore77,625
48.7%Bush80,649
4.5%
R+1.8
R+9.9
R+2.3
165,761
D
48.6%Clinton71,282
40.5%Dole59,441
10.9%
D+8.1
D+10.1
R+0.4
146,635
R
37.0%Clinton58,470
39.0%Bush61,620
23.9%
R+2.0
D+29.3
R+7.6
157,840
R
33.7%Dukakis45,799
65.0%Bush88,261
1.3%
R+31.3
D+10.5
R+23.5
135,778
R
28.9%Mondale33,314
70.7%Reagan81,462
0.4%
R+41.8
R+9.5
R+23.6
115,251
R
27.6%Carter31,789
59.8%Reagan68,994
12.6%
R+32.3
R+24.3
R+22.5
115,304
R
45.1%Carter45,544
53.1%Ford53,581
1.7%
R+8.0
D+22.2
R+10.0
100,880
R
34.3%McGovern34,739
64.4%Nixon65,274
1.3%
R+30.1
R+33.4
R+7.0
101,377
D
49.3%Humphrey45,423
46.0%Nixon42,409
4.7%
D+3.3
R+31.0
D+4.0
92,169
D
67.1%Johnson60,236
32.9%Goldwater29,503
0.0%
D+34.2
D+19.1
D+11.7
89,739
D
57.6%Kennedy52,135
42.4%Nixon38,430
0.0%
D+15.1
D+26.2
D+15.0
90,565
R
44.4%Stevenson36,234
55.5%Eisenhower45,248
0.1%
R+11.1
R+11.7
D+4.3
81,528
D
50.3%Stevenson41,802
49.7%Eisenhower41,263
0.0%
D+0.6
R+18.5
D+11.4
83,065
D
59.1%Truman41,789
39.9%Dewey28,257
1.0%
D+19.1
R+4.9
D+14.6
70,742
D
62.0%Roosevelt42,306
38.0%Dewey25,921
0.0%
D+24.0
D+0.2
D+16.5
68,236
D
61.9%Roosevelt42,580
38.1%Willkie26,201
0.0%
D+23.8
D+4.7
D+13.9
68,781
D
57.2%Roosevelt34,992
38.1%Landon23,293
4.7%
D+19.1
D+2.8
R+5.1
61,180
D
57.8%Roosevelt32,458
41.5%Hoover23,308
0.7%
D+16.3
D+7.1
R+1.5
56,161
D
54.5%Smith29,457
45.2%Hoover24,465
0.3%
D+9.2
D+23.5
D+26.7
54,087
R
37.4%Davis16,002
51.7%Coolidge22,098
10.9%
R+14.3
R+4.1
D+10.9
42,773
R
44.3%Cox18,736
54.4%Harding23,040
1.3%
R+10.2
R+14.9
D+16.0
42,322
D
51.1%Wilson10,939
46.3%Hughes9,927
2.6%
D+4.7
D+0.7
D+1.6
21,428
D
40.0%Wilson8,909
35.9%Taft8,007
24.1%
D+4.0
D+21.7
R+15.5
22,294
R
39.7%Bryan8,701
57.3%Taft12,568
3.0%
R+17.6
R+0.4
R+8.1
21,938
R
40.3%Parker8,831
57.5%Roosevelt12,603
2.1%
R+17.2
D+2.8
D+2.4
21,904
R
38.7%Bryan8,339
58.8%McKinley12,653
2.5%
R+20.0
D+22.0
R+12.5
21,535
R
25.7%Bryan4,965
67.8%McKinley13,080
6.5%
R+42.1
R+36.3
R+36.0
19,293
R
46.3%Cleveland8,785
52.1%Harrison9,875
1.6%
R+5.7
—
R+7.4
18,963
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
53.2%91,776
44.6%76,862
172,376
2020
D
56.5%129,100
41.0%93,607
228,474
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+4.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+2.9
Manchester-Nashua, NH registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 7.6-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
270,150 registered voters · 2026
Democratic27.3%Republican32.0%Unaffiliated40.7%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+786 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,602 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Manchester-Nashua, NH in Manchester-Nashua, NH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,365
2012
−1,408
2013
−1,622
2014
−420
2015
−994
2016
−528
2017
−253
2018
−554
2019
+650
2021
+87
2022
+935
2023
−876
2024
−40
2025
+786
Manchester-Nashua anchors the state's densest Democratic-leaning urban corridor, yet sits within a state famous for fierce independent-voter swings that have flipped its Electoral College votes multiple times since 2000.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.1 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.9 points.
A population of 426,378, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,545 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY and Worcester, MA.
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How did Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire vote in 2024?
In 2024, Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire voted Democratic by 2.9 points (D+2.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 234,443 votes cast, 118,777 went Democratic and 112,059 went Republican.
When did Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire has a population of 426,378 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Median household income in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire is $103,545 — above the national median of $80,734. The New Hampshire state median is $99,031.
What is the political history of Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
