† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
3 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
GroupRaleigh-Cary, NCNorth CarolinaUnited States
English13.4%12.7%9.5%
German9.8%9.4%12.5%
Irish9.1%8.4%9.4%
American6.4%8.3%5.3%
Italian4.6%3.3%4.8%
Scottish2.4%2.3%1.3%
French1.7%—1.6%
Polish1.6%1.0%2.2%
African American†16.5%18.3%9.9%
African0.6%0.7%0.5%
Nigerian0.3%0.2%0.2%
Jamaican0.2%0.2%0.4%
Ethiopian0.2%——
Haitian0.2%—0.3%
Mexican5.8%5.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.4%1.2%1.8%
Salvadoran0.7%0.7%0.7%
Honduran0.7%0.7%0.3%
Dominican0.6%0.3%0.7%
Cuban0.5%0.3%0.7%
Colombian0.5%0.3%0.4%
Guatemalan0.4%0.4%0.5%
Asian Indian3.7%1.2%1.4%
Chinese0.9%0.4%1.3%
Vietnamese0.6%0.3%0.6%
Korean0.4%0.2%0.4%
Filipino0.3%0.2%0.9%
Pakistani0.2%——
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
Raleigh-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median age
37.6
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.7%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
13.2%
17.2%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Raleigh-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Median household income
$100,665
$72,388
$84,427
Poverty rate
8.6%
13.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
51.2%
35.8%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Raleigh-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
18.3%
13.5%
22.3%
Spanish
9.3%
8.7%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
2.6%
1.1%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.8%
0.9%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Raleigh-Cary, NC
North Carolina
United States
Catholic
12.3%
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
19.2%
26.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
51.2%
48.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.4%
9.1%
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.
Raleigh-Cary, NC
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+26.1%
1896
+17.8%
1900
+17.2%
1904
+44.4%
1908
+13.3%
1912
+52.2%
1916
+28.0%
1920
+26.2%
1924
+28.8%
1928
+6.4%
1932
+63.7%
1936
+67.6%
1940
+64.5%
1944
+55.4%
1948
+55.1%
1952
+29.2%
1956
+28.6%
1960
+22.1%
1964
+18.3%
1968
−9.0%
1972
−44.9%
1976
+3.7%
1980
+0.2%
1984
−24.3%
1988
−15.2%
1992
−0.0%
1996
−4.4%
2000
−10.3%
2004
−6.9%
2008
+8.7%
2012
+5.6%
2016
+12.0%
2020
+17.3%
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
D
57.2%Harris469,267
40.9%Trump335,551
2.0%
D+16.3
R+1.0
D+17.8
820,925
D
57.7%Biden450,472
40.4%Trump315,451
1.9%
D+17.3
D+5.3
D+12.8
780,538
D
53.4%Clinton343,972
41.4%Trump266,822
5.1%
D+12.0
D+6.3
D+9.9
643,901
D
52.1%Obama307,988
46.4%Romney274,626
1.5%
D+5.6
R+3.0
D+1.8
591,507
D
53.9%Obama290,771
45.2%McCain243,896
1.0%
D+8.7
D+15.6
D+1.4
539,901
R
46.3%Kerry196,461
53.2%Bush225,767
0.4%
R+6.9
D+3.4
R+4.5
424,119
R
44.4%Gore144,624
54.8%Bush178,207
0.8%
R+10.3
R+5.9
R+10.8
325,426
R
44.7%Clinton121,197
49.1%Dole133,132
6.1%
R+4.4
R+4.4
R+12.9
270,900
R
42.3%Clinton106,780
42.3%Bush106,885
15.4%
R+0.04
D+15.2
R+5.6
252,412
R
42.2%Dukakis75,507
57.4%Bush102,675
0.3%
R+15.2
D+9.1
R+7.5
178,793
R
37.7%Mondale62,922
62.0%Reagan103,445
0.2%
R+24.3
R+24.5
R+6.1
166,719
D
47.6%Carter64,031
47.3%Reagan63,720
5.1%
D+0.2
R+3.5
D+10.0
134,650
D
51.6%Carter59,711
47.9%Ford55,432
0.5%
D+3.7
D+48.5
D+1.6
115,747
R
26.8%McGovern28,636
71.7%Nixon76,511
1.5%
R+44.9
R+35.9
R+21.7
106,744
R
29.1%Humphrey28,326
38.1%Nixon37,067
32.8%
R+9.0
R+27.2
R+8.3
97,380
D
59.1%Johnson46,533
40.9%Goldwater32,162
0.0%
D+18.3
R+3.8
R+4.3
78,695
D
61.0%Kennedy41,045
39.0%Nixon26,204
0.0%
D+22.1
R+6.5
D+21.9
67,249
D
64.3%Stevenson37,577
35.7%Eisenhower20,879
0.0%
D+28.6
R+0.7
D+44.0
58,456
D
64.6%Stevenson38,766
35.4%Eisenhower21,226
0.0%
D+29.2
R+25.9
D+40.0
59,992
D
74.7%Truman31,665
19.6%Dewey8,295
5.7%
D+55.1
R+0.2
D+50.7
42,377
D
77.7%Roosevelt30,299
22.3%Dewey8,708
0.0%
D+55.4
R+9.1
D+47.9
39,007
D
82.2%Roosevelt32,783
17.8%Willkie7,084
0.0%
D+64.5
R+3.1
D+54.5
39,867
D
83.8%Roosevelt36,312
16.2%Landon7,026
0.0%
D+67.6
D+3.9
D+43.3
43,338
D
81.4%Roosevelt28,731
17.7%Hoover6,256
0.9%
D+63.7
D+57.3
D+45.9
35,294
D
53.2%Smith17,213
46.8%Hoover15,145
0.0%
D+6.4
R+22.4
D+23.9
32,358
D
63.3%Davis15,023
34.5%Coolidge8,187
2.2%
D+28.8
D+2.7
D+54.0
23,731
D
63.1%Cox16,792
36.9%Harding9,830
0.0%
D+26.2
R+1.8
D+52.3
26,622
D
64.0%Wilson10,152
36.0%Hughes5,714
0.0%
D+28.0
R+24.2
D+24.8
15,871
D
64.9%Wilson8,609
12.7%Taft1,688
22.3%
D+52.2
D+39.0
D+32.7
13,256
D
56.6%Bryan8,290
43.3%Taft6,349
0.1%
D+13.3
R+31.2
D+22.8
14,649
D
72.1%Parker8,081
27.7%Roosevelt3,102
0.2%
D+44.4
D+27.2
D+64.1
11,206
D
58.3%Bryan10,709
41.1%McKinley7,546
0.6%
D+17.2
R+0.6
D+24.8
18,357
D
58.8%Bryan11,956
41.0%McKinley8,333
0.3%
D+17.8
R+8.3
D+23.9
20,342
D
49.0%Cleveland8,600
22.9%Harrison4,016
28.1%
D+26.1
—
D+24.5
17,552
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
57.7%321,189
39.9%222,349
556,854
2020
D
54.6%423,148
40.9%316,864
774,566
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+8.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+16.3
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 7.7 points more Republican.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Raleigh-Cary, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
693,684
297,697
221,029
174,332
626
2012
803,398
322,938
243,258
234,194
3,008
2016
871,883
324,092
249,175
293,590
5,026
2020
987,566
350,356
259,639
368,829
8,742
2022
1,016,439
349,083
251,871
407,350
8,135
2024
1,084,221
352,788
259,547
459,384
12,502
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+19,974 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +243,123 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Raleigh-Cary, NC in Raleigh-Cary, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+13,065
2012
+12,925
2013
+13,225
2014
+14,826
2015
+17,276
2016
+19,722
2017
+17,826
2018
+16,008
2019
+18,476
2021
+26,443
2022
+16,332
2023
+20,228
2024
+16,797
2025
+19,974
Raleigh-Cary has absorbed one of the fastest-growing educated workforces in the South, driven by tech and life-sciences expansion around Research Triangle Park, producing presidential margins that have tightened measurably over the past three cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.3 points.
A population of 1,487,302, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,665 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Richmond, VA and Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX.
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How did Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic by 16.3 points (D+16.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 820,925 votes cast, 469,267 went Democratic and 335,551 went Republican.
When did Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina has a population of 1,487,302 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina is $100,665 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Raleigh-Cary, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 8 went Republican.
