† 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
7 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
GroupNew Orleans-Metairie, LALouisianaUnited States
French9.0%9.6%1.6%
German8.2%6.9%12.5%
Italian6.6%4.3%4.8%
Irish6.6%6.6%9.4%
English5.6%7.3%9.5%
American3.7%7.4%5.3%
Scottish0.9%1.0%1.3%
French Canadian0.6%1.6%—
African American†34.3%29.3%9.9%
African2.2%0.8%0.5%
Haitian0.3%—0.3%
Honduran4.3%1.6%0.3%
Mexican2.0%2.1%11.3%
Cuban0.9%0.3%0.7%
Spanish0.9%0.7%—
Guatemalan0.7%0.2%0.5%
Nicaraguan0.7%——
Dominican0.6%0.2%0.7%
Puerto Rican0.6%0.4%1.8%
Vietnamese1.5%0.5%0.6%
Chinese0.4%0.2%1.3%
Asian Indian0.3%0.2%1.4%
Filipino0.3%—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
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median age
39.3
38
39.1
Age 18–24
8.2%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.5%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
Louisiana
United States
Median household income
$63,059
$60,756
$84,427
Poverty rate
18.6%
19.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
33.3%
27.1%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
Louisiana
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
14.8%
8.5%
22.3%
Spanish
9.3%
4.7%
13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
1.0%
1.5%
0.7%
Vietnamese
1.3%
0.5%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
Louisiana
United States
Catholic
38.5%
26.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
12.7%
25.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
36.5%
36.8%
51.5%
Black Protestant
5.8%
5.4%
2.2%
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.
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+38.5%
1896
+29.5%
1900
+60.4%
1904
+82.4%
1908
+76.5%
1912
+75.8%
1916
+82.6%
1920
+30.0%
1924
+62.0%
1928
+62.6%
1932
+87.6%
1936
+83.0%
1940
+71.9%
1944
+65.2%
1948
+10.5%
1952
+3.2%
1956
−17.3%
1960
+25.5%
1964
−1.1%
1968
+6.4%
1972
−32.9%
1976
+1.9%
1980
−4.6%
1984
−16.0%
1988
−3.2%
1992
+9.6%
1996
+22.3%
2000
+13.1%
2004
+9.9%
2008
+6.9%
2012
+14.5%
2016
+16.7%
2020
+19.2%
2024
+16.9%
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
57.4%Harris242,117
40.5%Trump170,667
2.2%
D+16.9
R+2.3
D+18.4
421,873
D
58.7%Biden271,788
39.5%Trump182,929
1.7%
D+19.2
D+2.5
D+14.8
462,755
D
56.3%Clinton243,611
39.6%Trump171,473
4.1%
D+16.7
D+2.1
D+14.6
432,859
D
56.3%Obama234,898
41.8%Romney174,277
1.9%
D+14.5
D+7.7
D+10.7
417,201
D
52.7%Obama217,009
45.8%McCain188,659
1.6%
D+6.9
R+3.0
R+0.4
412,166
D
54.5%Kerry264,451
44.6%Bush216,523
0.9%
D+9.9
R+3.3
D+12.3
485,319
D
55.4%Gore249,334
42.3%Bush190,181
2.3%
D+13.1
R+9.2
D+12.6
449,852
D
58.6%Clinton272,583
36.2%Dole168,611
5.2%
D+22.3
D+12.8
D+13.8
465,253
D
49.9%Clinton238,731
40.3%Bush192,888
9.8%
D+9.6
D+12.8
D+4.0
478,496
R
47.7%Dukakis208,335
50.9%Bush222,346
1.5%
R+3.2
D+12.8
D+4.5
437,132
R
41.7%Mondale192,417
57.7%Reagan266,301
0.6%
R+16.0
R+11.4
D+2.2
461,281
R
46.0%Carter195,164
50.6%Reagan214,631
3.3%
R+4.6
R+6.5
D+5.1
423,967
D
49.8%Carter179,073
47.8%Ford172,089
2.4%
D+1.9
D+34.9
R+0.1
359,807
R
30.1%McGovern94,186
63.0%Nixon197,322
6.9%
R+32.9
R+39.3
R+9.8
313,220
O
32.9%Humphrey105,575
26.5%Nixon85,053
40.6%
Wallace +7.7
D+7.5
D+7.1
320,899
R
49.4%Johnson134,056
50.6%Goldwater137,045
0.0%
R+1.1
R+26.6
R+23.7
271,101
D
50.9%Kennedy137,960
25.4%Nixon68,954
23.7%
D+25.5
D+42.7
D+25.3
271,136
R
39.4%Stevenson90,133
56.7%Eisenhower129,690
3.9%
R+17.3
R+20.5
R+1.9
228,692
D
51.6%Stevenson118,712
48.4%Eisenhower111,392
0.0%
D+3.2
R+7.3
D+13.9
230,104
O
32.5%Truman49,294
22.0%Dewey33,377
45.5%
Thurmond +12.9
R+54.7
D+6.0
151,579
D
82.6%Roosevelt109,134
17.4%Dewey23,021
0.0%
D+65.2
R+6.7
D+57.7
132,162
D
85.9%Roosevelt114,163
14.0%Willkie18,646
0.0%
D+71.9
R+11.1
D+62.0
132,837
D
91.5%Roosevelt126,366
8.5%Landon11,695
0.0%
D+83.0
R+4.5
D+58.8
138,083
D
93.7%Roosevelt100,069
6.1%Hoover6,519
0.2%
D+87.6
D+25.0
D+69.8
106,800
D
81.3%Smith68,233
18.7%Hoover15,695
0.0%
D+62.6
D+0.6
D+80.1
83,928
D
78.8%Davis41,845
16.7%Coolidge8,897
4.5%
D+62.0
D+32.0
D+87.2
53,122
D
65.0%Cox35,413
35.0%Harding19,066
0.0%
D+30.0
R+52.6
D+56.2
54,495
D
90.5%Wilson33,907
8.0%Hughes2,983
1.5%
D+82.6
D+6.7
D+79.4
37,459
D
79.5%Wilson28,336
3.6%Taft1,299
16.9%
D+75.8
R+0.7
D+56.3
35,652
D
87.8%Bryan28,438
11.2%Taft3,641
1.0%
D+76.5
R+5.9
D+86.1
32,395
D
90.0%Parker19,180
7.6%Roosevelt1,612
2.4%
D+82.4
D+22.0
D+102.1
21,313
D
80.2%Bryan21,576
19.8%McKinley5,324
0.0%
D+60.4
D+31.0
D+68.0
26,900
D
63.4%Bryan21,456
34.0%McKinley11,491
2.6%
D+29.5
R+9.1
D+35.5
33,832
D
69.3%Cleveland23,308
30.7%Harrison10,343
0.0%
D+38.5
—
D+36.9
33,651
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
26.5%75,750
41.9%120,034
286,273
2020
R
29.4%129,734
41.6%183,423
441,064
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+26.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+16.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 9.5 points more Democratic.
668,031 registered voters · 2024
Democratic48.6%Republican22.2%Other29.2%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−8,906 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −82,567 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in New Orleans-Metairie, LA in New Orleans-Metairie, LA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+8,867
2012
+4,408
2013
+3,460
2014
−539
2015
+74
2016
−3,402
2017
−6,057
2018
−6,962
2019
−6,126
2021
−13,656
2022
−24,963
2023
−17,829
2024
−10,936
2025
−8,906
New Orleans-Metairie blends a heavily Black, Democratic-leaning core city with whiter, more Republican suburban Jefferson Parish, making intra-metro demographic splits a persistent driver of electoral outcomes across all levels of the ballot.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 32.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.9 points.
A population of 981,662, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,059 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baton Rouge, LA and Tallahassee, FL.
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How did New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana voted Democratic by 16.9 points (D+16.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 421,873 votes cast, 242,117 went Democratic and 170,667 went Republican.
When did New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana has a population of 981,662 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
Median household income in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana is $63,059 — below the national median of $80,734. The Louisiana state median is $60,756.
What is the political history of New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, Louisiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
