Prince George's County, Maryland: New American county. In 2024, voted D+75%. Democratic peak: D+81 in 2016.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+75MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 959,7542024 5-year
- Median household income
- $101,7982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 58.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 22.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Noxubee County, MS · similarity 1.00
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Prince George's CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Prince George's County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | +4.5% |
| 1896 | −12.8% |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +73.8% |
| 1916 | +6.5% |
| 1920 | −15.2% |
| 1924 | −6.2% |
| 1928 | −18.9% |
| 1932 | +26.3% |
| 1936 | +30.0% |
| 1940 | +26.9% |
| 1944 | +0.9% |
| 1948 | +0.5% |
| 1952 | −13.2% |
| 1956 | −1.7% |
| 1960 | +16.1% |
| 1964 | +27.6% |
| 1968 | −1.0% |
| 1972 | −18.3% |
| 1976 | +15.9% |
| 1980 | +10.2% |
| 1984 | +17.6% |
| 1988 | +21.2% |
| 1992 | +41.2% |
| 1996 | +51.6% |
| 2000 | +61.1% |
| 2004 | +64.4% |
| 2008 | +78.5% |
| 2012 | +80.5% |
| 2016 | +80.6% |
| 2020 | +80.5% |
| 2024 | +75.1% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 334,784 | 42,838 | 388,993 | ||
| D | 379,208 | 37,090 | 424,855 | ||
| D | 344,049 | 32,811 | 386,149 | ||
| D | 347,938 | 35,734 | 387,744 | ||
| D | 332,396 | 38,833 | 374,026 | ||
| D | 260,532 | 55,532 | 318,474 | ||
| D | 216,119 | 49,987 | 271,909 | ||
| D | 176,612 | 52,697 | 240,302 | ||
| D | 168,691 | 62,955 | 256,859 | ||
| D | 133,816 | 86,545 | 222,881 | ||
| D | 136,063 | 95,121 | 232,220 | ||
| D | 98,757 | 78,977 | 193,987 | ||
| D | 111,743 | 81,027 | 192,770 | ||
| R | 79,914 | 116,166 | 198,410 | ||
| R | 71,524 | 73,269 | 177,660 | ||
| D | 81,806 | 46,413 | 128,219 | ||
| D | 62,013 | 44,817 | 106,830 | ||
| R | 39,280 | 40,654 | 79,934 | ||
| R | 29,119 | 38,060 | 67,602 | ||
| D | 14,874 | 14,718 | 30,024 | ||
| D | 14,006 | 13,750 | 27,756 | ||
| D | 16,592 | 9,523 | 26,251 | ||
| D | 15,087 | 8,107 | 23,295 | ||
| D | 11,580 | 6,696 | 18,556 | ||
| R | 6,658 | 9,782 | 16,562 | ||
| R | 5,088 | 5,868 | 12,490 | ||
| R | 4,857 | 6,628 | 11,663 | ||
| D | 3,493 | 3,058 | 6,734 | ||
| D | 5,397 | 1,456 | 5,341 | ||
| — | 5,139 | 2,680 | 78 | ||
| — | 6,279 | 2,845 | 24 | ||
| — | 2,787 | 3,455 | 11 | ||
| R | 2,505 | 3,250 | 5,810 | ||
| D | 2,655 | 2,423 | 5,121 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
3.0%
German
2.6%
Irish
2.4%
English
2.1%
Italian
1.2%
Polish
0.5%
African American
47.0%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 38.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$101,798
Prince George's County ranks in the top 5% of US counties.
Prince George's County$101,798
Maryland$103,678
United States$80,734
Prince George's County ranks in the top 5% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
10.8%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 1814.6%
Working age (18–64)9.7%
Seniors (65+)10.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
69.3%
speak English only
Spanish19.5%
Other languages5.0%
Other Indo-European3.9%
Asian & Pacific Islander2.3%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 49.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Prince George's County delivers some of Maryland's largest raw Democratic margins, driven by its majority African American population and proximity to Washington, D.C. Its suburbs have grown rapidly, adding younger, college-educated residents to an already heavily blue electorate.
Prince George's County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of eighty-one points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved five points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 12% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $101,798, and a population of 959,754. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Noxubee County and Petersburg city.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Prince George's County, Maryland vote in 2024?
In 2024, Prince George's County, Maryland voted Democratic by 75.1 points (D+75), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 388,993 votes cast, 334,784 went Democratic and 42,838 went Republican.
What is Prince George's County, Maryland's political typology?
Akashic places Prince George's County, Maryland in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 23 times, Republican 8 times, and other 0 times.
When did Prince George's County, Maryland last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Prince George's County, Maryland voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Prince George's County, Maryland?
Prince George's County, Maryland has a population of 959,754 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Prince George's County, Maryland?
Median household income in Prince George's County, Maryland is $101,798 — above the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Prince George's County, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Prince George's County, Maryland from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 8 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.