† 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
8 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
GroupOmaha, NE-IAUnited States
German27.3%12.5%
Irish12.9%9.4%
English10.0%9.5%
Italian3.6%4.8%
American3.5%5.3%
Polish3.2%2.2%
Czech2.9%—
Swedish2.6%—
Mexican8.8%11.3%
Salvadoran0.7%0.7%
Guatemalan0.6%0.5%
Puerto Rican0.4%1.8%
Cuban0.3%0.7%
Spanish0.2%—
African American†6.1%9.9%
African0.4%0.5%
Sudanese0.2%—
Asian Indian0.7%1.4%
Burmese0.5%—
Vietnamese0.4%0.6%
Chinese0.3%1.3%
Filipino0.3%0.9%
Nepalese0.2%—
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
Omaha, NE-IA
United States
Median age
36.7
39.1
Age 18–24
8.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
14.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Omaha, NE-IA
United States
Median household income
$85,433
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
39.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Omaha, NE-IA
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
12.9%
22.3%
Spanish
8.2%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.0%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.1%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Omaha, NE-IA
United States
Catholic
19.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
10.7%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
55.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.9%
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.
Omaha, NE-IA
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−20.5%
1896
−0.0%
1900
−5.1%
1904
−30.6%
1908
+0.5%
1912
+22.6%
1916
+16.5%
1920
−25.2%
1924
−19.4%
1928
−10.8%
1932
+29.0%
1936
+24.9%
1940
+4.7%
1944
+0.9%
1948
+0.1%
1952
−17.9%
1956
−19.4%
1960
−10.3%
1964
+11.1%
1968
−17.1%
1972
−37.8%
1976
−17.2%
1980
−30.9%
1984
−33.5%
1988
−14.5%
1992
−14.1%
1996
−14.1%
2000
−19.0%
2004
−23.8%
2008
−2.6%
2012
−9.9%
2016
−9.9%
2020
−2.0%
2024
−3.5%
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
47.3%Harris226,647
50.8%Trump243,452
1.9%
R+3.5
R+1.5
R+2.0
479,274
R
47.7%Biden226,701
49.7%Trump236,351
2.6%
R+2.0
D+7.9
R+6.5
475,479
R
41.1%Clinton170,037
51.0%Trump211,067
8.0%
R+9.9
±0.0
R+12.0
414,020
R
44.0%Obama169,561
54.0%Romney207,799
2.0%
R+9.9
R+7.3
R+13.8
384,990
R
47.9%Obama184,018
50.5%McCain194,169
1.7%
R+2.6
D+21.1
R+9.9
384,557
R
37.5%Kerry132,162
61.2%Bush216,057
1.3%
R+23.8
R+4.8
R+21.3
352,813
R
38.4%Gore116,358
57.3%Bush173,863
4.3%
R+19.0
R+4.9
R+19.5
303,184
R
37.8%Clinton109,936
51.9%Dole150,816
10.3%
R+14.1
±0.0
R+22.6
290,700
R
32.3%Clinton102,787
46.3%Bush147,554
21.4%
R+14.1
D+0.5
R+19.6
318,414
R
42.4%Dukakis117,191
56.9%Bush157,331
0.6%
R+14.5
D+18.9
R+6.8
276,268
R
33.0%Mondale88,606
66.4%Reagan178,610
0.6%
R+33.5
R+2.5
R+15.3
268,862
R
30.2%Carter76,957
61.1%Reagan155,751
8.6%
R+30.9
R+13.7
R+21.2
254,725
R
40.3%Carter98,097
57.6%Ford140,046
2.1%
R+17.2
D+20.6
R+19.3
243,196
R
30.9%McGovern69,315
68.7%Nixon154,142
0.4%
R+37.8
R+20.7
R+14.7
224,313
R
35.8%Humphrey73,252
52.9%Nixon108,325
11.4%
R+17.1
R+28.2
R+16.4
204,868
D
55.6%Johnson118,516
44.4%Goldwater94,796
0.0%
D+11.1
D+21.4
R+11.5
213,345
R
44.8%Kennedy95,344
55.1%Nixon117,256
0.0%
R+10.3
D+9.1
R+10.5
212,622
R
40.2%Stevenson78,737
59.7%Eisenhower116,794
0.1%
R+19.4
R+1.6
R+4.0
195,671
R
41.0%Stevenson82,428
58.9%Eisenhower118,383
0.1%
R+17.9
R+18.0
R+7.1
200,912
D
50.0%Truman79,012
49.8%Dewey78,775
0.2%
D+0.1
R+0.7
R+4.3
158,166
D
50.4%Roosevelt94,092
49.5%Dewey92,485
0.1%
D+0.9
R+3.8
R+6.6
186,712
D
52.3%Roosevelt103,202
47.6%Willkie93,929
0.0%
D+4.7
R+20.2
R+5.2
197,200
D
61.7%Roosevelt113,212
36.9%Landon67,584
1.4%
D+24.9
R+4.1
D+0.6
183,357
D
63.7%Roosevelt105,419
34.8%Hoover57,494
1.5%
D+29.0
D+39.8
D+11.2
165,440
R
44.3%Smith69,101
55.1%Hoover86,026
0.6%
R+10.8
D+8.5
D+6.6
156,040
R
28.3%Davis36,559
47.6%Coolidge61,605
24.1%
R+19.4
D+5.8
D+5.8
129,329
R
35.5%Cox36,979
60.7%Harding63,238
3.9%
R+25.2
R+41.6
D+1.0
104,260
D
56.2%Wilson43,732
39.8%Hughes30,932
4.0%
D+16.5
R+6.2
D+13.3
77,755
D
43.4%Wilson27,496
20.8%Taft13,153
35.8%
D+22.6
D+22.1
D+3.1
63,329
D
48.7%Bryan32,666
48.2%Taft32,329
3.2%
D+0.5
D+31.1
D+10.1
67,111
R
28.9%Parker17,559
59.5%Roosevelt36,189
11.7%
R+30.6
R+25.5
R+10.9
60,854
R
46.5%Bryan30,707
51.6%McKinley34,086
1.9%
R+5.1
R+5.1
D+2.4
66,029
R
49.1%Bryan30,151
49.1%McKinley30,159
1.9%
R+0.01
D+20.5
D+6.1
61,455
R
25.6%Cleveland13,689
46.1%Harrison24,679
28.4%
R+20.5
—
R+22.2
53,566
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+7.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+3.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.0 points more Republican.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Omaha, NE-IA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
80,839
24,698
28,881
27,231
29
2010 (partial)
82,471
24,480
29,992
27,934
65
2012 (partial)
82,600
23,480
31,615
27,410
95
2014 (partial)
80,924
21,807
31,005
27,862
250
2016 (partial)
83,108
22,017
32,200
28,298
593
2018 (partial)
84,799
22,027
32,397
29,488
887
2020 (partial)
86,654
23,385
35,896
26,330
1,043
2022 (partial)
85,350
21,681
36,281
26,248
1,140
2024 (partial)
86,656
20,781
37,880
26,726
1,269
2026 (partial)
551,808
176,254
217,668
143,642
14,244
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,258 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,783 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Omaha, NE-IA in Omaha, NE-IA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+644
2012
+41
2013
+1,353
2014
+454
2015
+1,223
2016
+696
2017
+338
2018
+1,544
2019
+1,068
2021
−1,041
2022
−1,864
2023
+780
2024
+1,289
2025
+2,258
Omaha anchors Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, which allocates one Electoral College vote by district winner — a quirk that made it a genuine presidential battleground and drew outsized national campaign spending in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.5 points.
A population of 982,064, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,433 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI and Lincoln, NE.
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In 2024, Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska voted Republican by 3.5 points (R+3.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 479,274 votes cast, 226,647 went Democratic and 243,452 went Republican.
When did Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska has a population of 982,064 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Median household income in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska is $85,433 — above the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
