† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
5 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
GroupRochester, NYNew YorkUnited States
German17.4%8.6%12.5%
Italian15.2%10.9%4.8%
Irish14.7%10.5%9.4%
English12.5%5.6%9.5%
Polish4.5%3.9%2.2%
American4.3%4.2%5.3%
French2.1%1.3%1.6%
Dutch1.4%——
African American†8.6%8.0%9.9%
Jamaican0.5%1.6%0.4%
African0.4%0.6%0.5%
Puerto Rican5.4%5.1%1.8%
Mexican0.9%2.5%11.3%
Dominican0.5%4.6%0.7%
Cuban0.3%—0.7%
Spanish0.2%——
Chinese0.7%3.6%1.3%
Asian Indian0.6%1.9%1.4%
Vietnamese0.2%—0.6%
Korean0.2%0.6%0.4%
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
Rochester, NY
New York
United States
Median age
40.7
39.9
39.1
Age 18–24
9.5%
9.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
19.4%
18.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rochester, NY
New York
United States
Median household income
$76,325
$85,974
$84,427
Poverty rate
12.7%
14.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
38.2%
40.0%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rochester, NY
New York
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
10.8%
30.9%
22.3%
Spanish
5.0%
14.8%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.5%
4.0%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rochester, NY
New York
United States
Catholic
26.2%
30.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
7.6%
5.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
52.8%
48.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.0%
3.8%
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.
Rochester, NY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−10.7%
1896
−20.3%
1900
−17.4%
1904
−27.6%
1908
−20.7%
1912
−1.1%
1916
−24.9%
1920
−41.3%
1924
−40.0%
1928
−22.9%
1932
−13.9%
1936
−3.8%
1940
−8.6%
1944
−6.7%
1948
−8.5%
1952
−25.5%
1956
−38.7%
1960
−9.5%
1964
+40.0%
1968
−6.2%
1972
−28.4%
1976
−13.3%
1980
+0.8%
1984
−21.5%
1988
−5.0%
1992
−1.6%
1996
+11.6%
2000
+0.4%
2004
−3.4%
2008
+10.8%
2012
+10.9%
2016
+5.2%
2020
+11.1%
2024
+8.5%
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
D
54.0%Harris278,847
45.5%Trump234,886
0.0%Stein40 +6
D+8.5
R+2.6
D+10.0
516,251
All 9 candidates in 2024 · 7 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic54.0%278,847
Donald J TrumpRepublican45.5%234,886
OtherAll other candidates0.5%2,411
Jill SteinIndependent0.0%40
Chase OliverIndependent0.0%33
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%17
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%12
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%4
Chris GarrityIndependent0.0%1
D
54.4%Biden290,015
43.3%Trump230,955
2.3%
D+11.1
D+5.9
D+6.6
533,288
D
49.2%Clinton239,465
44.0%Trump214,217
6.7%
D+5.2
R+5.8
D+3.1
486,415
D
54.4%Obama250,715
43.5%Romney200,284
2.1%
D+10.9
D+0.1
D+7.1
460,689
D
54.7%Obama270,927
43.9%McCain217,410
1.4%
D+10.8
D+14.2
D+3.5
495,222
R
47.4%Kerry227,835
50.8%Bush244,299
1.8%
R+3.4
R+3.8
R+1.0
480,919
D
47.8%Gore212,948
47.5%Bush211,298
4.7%
D+0.4
R+11.2
R+0.1
445,170
D
50.5%Clinton216,260
38.9%Dole166,614
10.5%
D+11.6
D+13.2
D+3.1
427,836
R
39.1%Clinton183,007
40.7%Bush190,625
20.2%
R+1.6
D+3.4
R+7.2
468,132
R
47.1%Dukakis199,369
52.1%Bush220,696
0.8%
R+5.0
D+16.5
D+2.7
423,555
R
39.0%Mondale166,481
60.5%Reagan258,306
0.5%
R+21.5
R+22.3
R+3.3
426,738
D
44.7%Carter184,287
43.9%Reagan180,878
11.3%
D+0.8
D+14.1
D+10.6
411,816
R
43.1%Carter176,400
56.4%Ford230,783
0.5%
R+13.3
D+15.1
R+15.4
409,274
R
35.7%McGovern150,648
64.1%Nixon270,610
0.2%
R+28.4
R+22.2
R+5.3
422,177
R
44.8%Humphrey173,838
51.0%Nixon197,985
4.2%
R+6.2
R+46.2
R+5.5
388,079
D
69.9%Johnson266,662
30.0%Goldwater114,219
0.1%
D+40.0
D+49.5
D+17.4
381,223
R
45.2%Kennedy176,385
54.7%Nixon213,392
0.1%
R+9.5
D+29.2
R+9.7
389,974
R
30.6%Stevenson113,243
69.4%Eisenhower256,422
0.0%
R+38.7
R+13.3
R+23.3
369,665
R
37.2%Stevenson135,901
62.6%Eisenhower228,970
0.2%
R+25.5
R+17.0
R+14.7
365,490
R
44.3%Truman136,660
52.8%Dewey162,807
2.9%
R+8.5
R+1.8
R+13.0
308,398
R
46.5%Roosevelt146,465
53.2%Dewey167,488
0.3%
R+6.7
D+2.0
R+14.2
314,993
R
45.5%Roosevelt148,003
54.1%Willkie176,098
0.4%
R+8.6
R+4.8
R+18.6
325,476
R
47.2%Roosevelt140,276
51.0%Landon151,690
1.8%
R+3.8
D+10.1
R+28.1
297,219
R
41.5%Roosevelt110,435
55.4%Hoover147,468
3.1%
R+13.9
D+9.0
R+31.7
266,164
R
36.9%Smith96,925
59.8%Hoover157,219
3.3%
R+22.9
D+17.1
R+5.5
262,910
R
21.4%Davis44,876
61.4%Coolidge128,963
17.2%
R+40.0
D+1.2
R+14.8
210,071
R
24.7%Cox44,327
66.0%Harding118,296
9.3%
R+41.3
R+16.4
R+15.1
179,303
R
35.7%Wilson38,002
60.6%Hughes64,463
3.7%
R+24.9
R+23.7
R+28.0
106,409
R
34.3%Wilson32,182
35.4%Taft33,256
30.3%
R+1.1
D+19.6
R+20.7
93,870
R
37.7%Bryan38,749
58.4%Taft60,088
3.9%
R+20.7
D+6.9
R+11.2
102,848
R
33.4%Parker31,721
61.0%Roosevelt57,948
5.6%
R+27.6
R+10.2
R+7.9
94,986
R
39.2%Bryan36,453
56.5%McKinley52,628
4.3%
R+17.4
D+2.9
R+9.8
93,069
R
38.4%Bryan33,991
58.7%McKinley51,958
2.9%
R+20.3
R+9.5
R+14.2
88,553
R
41.3%Cleveland34,437
52.0%Harrison43,393
6.7%
R+10.7
—
R+12.4
83,376
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
55.2%279,313
44.3%224,312
506,091
2022
D
51.7%202,955
47.7%187,066
392,240
2018
D
58.1%227,701
41.9%164,044
391,893
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+6.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+8.5
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.7 points.
Domestic migration in Rochester, NY in Rochester, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,104
2012
−4,293
2013
−3,954
2014
−6,063
2015
−7,275
2016
−7,278
2017
−5,437
2018
−3,762
2019
−3,734
2021
−4,202
2022
−5,821
2023
−4,183
2024
−305
2025
−665
Rochester's electorate reflects a post-industrial city anchored by major research universities and healthcare institutions, producing high Democratic margins in Monroe County even as surrounding exurban townships trend in the opposite direction.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.5 points.
A population of 1,058,413, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,325 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Syracuse, NY and Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.
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In 2024, Rochester, NY, New York voted Democratic by 8.5 points (D+8.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 516,251 votes cast, 278,847 went Democratic and 234,886 went Republican.
When did Rochester, NY, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Rochester, NY, New York voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Rochester, NY, New York?
Rochester, NY, New York has a population of 1,058,413 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rochester, NY, New York?
Median household income in Rochester, NY, New York is $76,325 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Rochester, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Rochester, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
