HarrisDemocratic58.2%172,345TrumpRepublican40.2%118,999OtherAll other candidates1.5%4,583
D+18.0
Lead
53,346
Total
295,927
vs nation
D+19.5
BidenDemocratic62.0%191,498TrumpRepublican36.6%113,175OtherAll other candidates1.4%4,261
D+25.4
Lead
78,323
Total
308,934
vs nation
D+20.9
ClintonDemocratic56.9%156,746TrumpRepublican38.9%107,239OtherAll other candidates4.1%11,398
D+18.0
Lead
49,507
Total
275,383
vs nation
D+15.9
ObamaDemocratic54.4%141,031RomneyRepublican44.6%115,600OtherAll other candidates1.0%2,482
D+9.8
Lead
25,431
Total
259,113
vs nation
D+6.0
ObamaDemocratic58.3%157,998McCainRepublican40.9%110,852OtherAll other candidates0.8%2,175
D+17.4
Lead
47,146
Total
271,025
vs nation
D+10.1
KerryDemocratic51.0%134,136BushRepublican47.6%124,977OtherAll other candidates1.4%3,666
D+3.5
Lead
9,159
Total
262,779
vs nation
D+5.9
GoreDemocratic52.1%126,198BushRepublican43.2%104,744OtherAll other candidates4.7%11,420
D+8.9
Lead
21,454
Total
242,362
vs nation
D+8.3
ClintonDemocratic48.8%112,271DoleRepublican40.9%94,267OtherAll other candidates10.3%23,731
D+7.8
Lead
18,004
Total
230,269
vs nation
R+0.7
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupWestern Connecticut Planning RegionConnecticutUnited States
Italian14.8%15.3%4.8%
Irish13.4%13.9%9.4%
English8.7%8.7%9.5%
German8.5%7.8%12.5%
American4.3%3.3%5.3%
Polish4.0%6.3%2.2%
Russian1.8%——
French1.6%3.8%1.6%
Ecuadorian3.1%1.4%—
Puerto Rican2.7%8.1%1.8%
Dominican2.3%1.6%0.7%
Guatemalan2.2%0.9%0.5%
Mexican2.1%1.8%11.3%
Colombian1.8%0.9%0.4%
Peruvian1.2%0.5%—
Honduran0.7%—0.3%
African American†5.0%6.0%9.9%
Jamaican1.5%1.8%0.4%
Haitian1.3%0.7%0.3%
African0.6%0.5%0.5%
Nigerian0.2%—0.2%
West Indian0.2%0.2%—
Asian Indian2.1%1.7%1.4%
Chinese1.4%1.1%1.3%
Filipino0.5%0.4%0.9%
Korean0.4%0.3%0.4%
Japanese0.2%—0.2%
Pakistani0.2%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
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Median age
41.5
41.2
39.1
Age 18–24
8.4%
9.3%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.3%
18.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Median household income
$128,188
$95,781
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.5%
10.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
55.5%
42.5%
35.6%
Housing and tenure
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Owner-occupied homes
66.4%
66.5%
65.2%
Renter-occupied homes
33.6%
33.5%
34.8%
Median home value
$652,900
$366,900
$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)
$2,110
$1,488
$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income
52.8%
52.6%
51.1%
Vacant housing units
6.4%
7.0%
10.1%
Getting to work
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Mean commute
30.8 min
26.5 min
26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more
15.8%
8.7%
8.6%
Drives alone to work
59.3%
68.8%
68.8%
Takes public transit
7.0%
3.3%
3.2%
Works from home
21.5%
16.0%
15.1%
Languages at home
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
29.7%
23.4%
22.3%
Spanish
15.8%
12.8%
13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
2.0%
1.2%
0.7%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic
1.7%
1.5%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Catholic
25.6%
28.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.4%
6.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
59.4%
54.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.1%
6.0%
5.2%
Origins and service
Measure
Western Connecticut Planning Region
Connecticut
United States
Foreign-born residents
23.8%
15.7%
14.1%
Naturalized citizens
12.2%
8.7%
7.4%
Not U.S. citizens
11.6%
7.1%
6.8%
Veterans (18+)
3.1%
4.7%
6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)
0.545
0.499
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).
2024 precinct map of Western Connecticut Planning RegionPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Western Connecticut Planning Region, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin, and gold where an independent or third-party candidate carried the precinct. Detailed per-precinct vote counts, search, sorting, and CSV export are available in the collapsed precinct data section below this map.
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How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
Kamala Harris ✓Democratic
58.2%
172,345
Donald TrumpRepublican
40.2%
118,999
OtherAll other candidates
1.5%
4,583
Harris +50Trump +50
18 precincts · 295,927 votes. Hover any precinct for its result.
Connecticut replaced its eight counties with nine planning regions, the Census county-equivalents since 2022; the presidential series here is apportioned onto these boundaries from the historical county returns by town population share, not re-counted. The timeline scrubs this planning region’s overall result across 1876–2024.
Precinct-level results (18 precincts) — table
2024 presidential result by precinct for Western Connecticut Planning Region — winner and Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
Precinct
Winner
Margin
190-Bethel
Democratic
D+9.2
190-Bridgewater
Democratic
D+5.0
190-Brookfield
Republican
R+4.0
190-Danbury
Democratic
D+7.6
190-Darien
Democratic
D+18.9
190-Greenwich
Democratic
D+16.0
190-New Canaan
Democratic
D+13.6
190-New Fairfield
Republican
R+10.1
190-New Milford
Republican
R+4.4
190-Newtown
Democratic
D+9.8
190-Norwalk
Democratic
D+28.6
190-Redding
Democratic
D+29.4
190-Ridgefield
Democratic
D+27.0
190-Sherman
Democratic
D+9.0
190-Stamford
Democratic
D+26.7
190-Weston
Democratic
D+40.2
190-Westport
Democratic
D+44.2
190-Wilton
Democratic
D+30.7
Explore precinct resultsSearch, sort, compare years, or export CSV · 18 precincts
Precinct data
Results by precinct
18 precincts · 308,364 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Western Connecticut Planning Region precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -190-Stamford190-Stamford
35,570
20,370
930
56,870
62.5%
35.8%
D+26.7
Precinct -190-Norwalk190-Norwalk
26,526
14,586
602
41,714
63.6%
35.0%
D+28.6
Precinct -190-Greenwich190-Greenwich
19,603
14,122
464
34,189
57.3%
41.3%
D+16.0
Precinct -190-Danbury190-Danbury
16,318
13,971
415
30,704
53.1%
45.5%
D+7.6
Precinct -190-Newtown190-Newtown
9,316
7,624
338
17,278
53.9%
44.1%
D+9.8
Precinct -190-Westport190-Westport
11,769
4,476
237
16,482
71.4%
27.2%
D+44.2
Precinct -190-New Milford190-New Milford
7,311
7,995
219
15,525
47.1%
51.5%
R+4.4
Precinct -190-Ridgefield190-Ridgefield
9,704
5,520
252
15,476
62.7%
35.7%
D+27.0
Precinct -190-Darien190-Darien
6,988
4,732
201
11,921
58.6%
39.7%
D+18.9
Precinct -190-New Canaan190-New Canaan
6,644
5,023
248
11,915
55.8%
42.2%
D+13.6
Precinct -190-Bethel190-Bethel
5,977
4,950
184
11,111
53.8%
44.6%
D+9.2
Precinct -190-Wilton190-Wilton
7,054
3,689
207
10,950
64.4%
33.7%
D+30.7
Precinct -190-Brookfield190-Brookfield
5,029
5,458
175
10,662
47.2%
51.2%
R+4.0
Precinct -190-New Fairfield190-New Fairfield
3,653
4,485
107
8,245
44.3%
54.4%
R+10.1
Precinct -190-Weston190-Weston
4,294
1,797
116
6,207
69.2%
29.0%
D+40.2
Precinct -190-Redding190-Redding
3,619
1,948
118
5,685
63.7%
34.3%
D+29.4
Precinct -190-Sherman190-Sherman
1,212
1,008
35
2,255
53.7%
44.7%
D+9.0
Precinct -190-Bridgewater190-Bridgewater
607
548
20
1,175
51.7%
46.6%
D+5.0
presidential history
Party record book
Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 37 presidential cycles · 36 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
62.0%
191,498 votes · D+25.4
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
67.2%
16,723 votes · R+39.4
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 66.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
191,498votes
62.0% of the vote · D+25.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 172,345 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
167,114votes
65.8% of the vote · R+32.0
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 150,769 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
+20.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.4 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +19.5 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+33.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.4 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +24.9 pts
Seats representing Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT. A county elects none of these itself — they are the members for the 3 congressional, 7 state senate and 6 state house districts it falls inside, so parts of the county are represented by different members.
U.S. House elections · 1 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Western Connecticut Planning Region · Akashic carries this place’s presidential nominating contests, but not at this place’s own grain.
Connecticut’s presidential primary returns are aggregated to the eight counties retired as county-equivalents in 2022. Akashic publishes the nine planning regions that replaced them, and their boundaries cross the old county lines. The presidential record elsewhere on this page crosses that boundary because a general-election county row carries each party’s votes, and votes can be apportioned and disclosed as an estimate. A primary county row carries a leader and a lead over the runner-up and nothing else: there is no per-candidate vote to apportion, and who led is not a quantity that can be weighted. So the record is complete and published — at Connecticut’s state contest, not at this grain. See Connecticut’s Democratic presidential primary.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2025D+11.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+18.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 6.8 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−3,667 net domestic migration · 2025
20212025
Net −16,173 over 2021–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $185,658 in average income, against $267,407 for residents who stayed — 31% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean D+25.2 on average — 7.2 points more Democratic-leaning than Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT itself (D+18.0).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Westchester County, NY2,005D+26.1
New York County, NY1,398D+64.2
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT1,159D+19.6
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT648D+11.2
Bronx County, NY533D+45.1
Kings County, NY515D+43.3
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT1,761
New York County, NY1,683
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT1,208
Westchester County, NY917
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT736
Kings County, NY430
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT in Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2021
+2,346
2022
−6,028
2023
−4,779
2024
−4,045
2025
−3,667
Western Connecticut Planning Region sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 44.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.0 points.
A population of 627,071, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $128,188 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Burlington County and Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties 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.
How did Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut vote in 2024?
In 2024, Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut voted Democratic by 18.0 points (D+18.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 295,927 votes cast, 172,345 went Democratic and 118,999 went Republican.
When did Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut voted Republican was 1992.
How many people live in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut?
Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut has a population of 627,071 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut?
Median household income in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut is $128,188 — above the national median of $80,734. The Connecticut state median is $95,781.
What is the political history of Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
