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California 5th Congressional District

Contests in this Place (63 available)

President38 · 1876–2024 · 3 mapped

▦ precinct · ▥ counties · ▢ no spatial detail

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1876–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1876 → 2024

2024

District by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German12.5%6.8%12.5%

English10.7%6.3%9.5%

Irish10.3%5.9%9.4%

Italian5.0%3.4%4.8%

American2.8%2.8%5.3%

Portuguese2.5%——

Scottish2.1%0.9%1.3%

French1.5%1.3%1.6%

Mexican25.5%32.3%11.3%

Salvadoran0.6%2.0%0.7%

Puerto Rican0.3%0.6%1.8%

Spaniard0.3%0.3%—

Spanish0.2%0.3%—

Guatemalan0.2%1.3%0.5%

Asian Indian1.4%2.3%1.4%

Hmong1.2%0.3%—

Filipino1.2%3.3%0.9%

Chinese0.5%3.9%1.3%

Cambodian0.4%——

Vietnamese0.3%1.7%0.6%

Laotian0.2%——

Japanese0.2%0.6%0.2%

Aztec2.2%0.3%—

African American†2.0%4.4%9.9%

African0.2%0.3%0.5%

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	CA-5	California	United States
Median age	39.8	37.9	39.1
Age 18–24	8.8%	9.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.1%	15.6%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Median household income	$90,957	$99,122	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.0%	12.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	22.8%	36.6%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Owner-occupied homes	63.4%	55.9%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	36.6%	44.1%	34.8%
Median home value	—	$734,700	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	—	$2,036	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	54.6%	55.3%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	13.0%	7.5%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Mean commute	27.7 min	28.7 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	10.8%	11.1%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	73.4%	65.7%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.7%	2.9%	3.2%
Works from home	10.4%	17.2%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	37.4%	44.4%	22.3%
Spanish	29.2%	28.4%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	2.8%	3.4%	2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island	2.1%	2.0%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Catholic	—	26.2%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	9.0%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	55.2%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	CA-5	California	United States
Foreign-born residents	18.1%	27.0%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	8.5%	14.7%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	9.6%	12.3%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	5.3%	4.3%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	—	0.489	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083) · District housing, commuting and origins figures are constituent-county values weighted by each county’s share of the district — the Census publishes these at 119th-Congress lines and Akashic maps districts on the 2026 (cd:120) lines.

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic38.5%140,213TrumpRepublican59.1%215,327OtherAll other candidates2.5%9,030

R+20.6

Lead: 75,114
Total: 364,570
vs nation: R+19.1