† 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
20042024
Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · 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
GroupWayneMichiganUnited States
German11.9%17.7%12.5%
Irish8.9%9.9%9.4%
Polish8.1%7.2%2.2%
English7.3%10.5%9.5%
American6.1%4.2%5.3%
Italian4.8%4.2%4.8%
Lebanese3.5%——
French2.7%3.0%1.6%
African American†23.9%12.2%9.9%
African0.8%0.5%0.5%
Nigerian0.2%—0.2%
Mexican2.6%4.0%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.4%0.5%1.8%
Asian Indian0.6%1.2%1.4%
Bangladeshi0.2%0.2%—
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
Wayne
Michigan
United States
Median age
42.5
40.3
39.1
Age 18–24
7.0%
9.2%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.3%
18.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wayne
Michigan
United States
Median household income
$59,038
$72,875
$84,427
Poverty rate
15.7%
13.2%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
17.5%
32.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wayne
Michigan
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
7.2%
10.4%
22.3%
Spanish
1.8%
3.1%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.9%
1.8%
2.0%
Other languages
1.5%
0.6%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wayne
Michigan
United States
Catholic
—
14.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
12.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
—
60.3%
51.5%
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.
Wayne, Michigan
presidential history
Presidential margin, 2004–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
2004
+20.5%
2008
+32.3%
2012
+32.0%
2016
+14.6%
2020
+16.9%
2024
+14.7%
DemocraticRepublican
6 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. Third-party votes in 2012 are allocated from certified county totals by this place's share of each county's two-party vote — that cycle's precinct source records two-party splits. † 2004 sub-county results are estimated: the source's block-level detail for this cycle was unreliable — either county/municipality-level consolidated reporting (COVID-era) or a precinct-to-block allocation that misplaced votes — so the figures are allocated from the constituent county totals in proportion to the place and scaled to certified totals.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
56.4%Harris4,703
41.7%Trump3,480
2.0%
D+14.7
R+2.2
D+16.1
8,346
D
57.5%Biden4,788
40.7%Trump3,385
1.8%
D+16.9
D+2.3
D+12.4
8,323
D
54.4%Clinton4,008
39.8%Trump2,933
5.8%
D+14.6
R+17.4
D+12.5
7,368
D
65.5%Obama4,381
33.5%Romney2,240
1.0%
D+32.0
R+0.3
D+28.1
6,690
D
65.2%Obama5,353
32.9%McCain2,700
1.9%
D+32.3
D+11.8
D+25.1
8,207
D
59.4%Kerry4,862
38.9%Bush3,185
1.7%
D+20.5
—
D+22.9
8,189
Wayne City sits in Wayne County's inner-ring industrial belt, where decades of autoworker organizing left a dense union-household base that continues to drive above-average Democratic margins even as the broader region shifts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.3 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 17,310, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,038 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mount Clemens and Michigan City.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Wayne, Michigan voted Democratic by 14.7 points (D+14.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 8,346 votes cast, 4,703 went Democratic and 3,480 went Republican.
How many people live in Wayne, Michigan?
Wayne, Michigan has a population of 17,310 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wayne, Michigan?
Median household income in Wayne, Michigan is $59,038 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Wayne, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Wayne, Michigan from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
