New York County, New York: New American county. In 2024, voted D+64%. Democratic peak: D+77 in 2016.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 1,629,4772024 5-year
- Median household income
- $103,9312024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.4%2024 5-year
- County seat
- New York
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- District of Columbia, DC · similarity 1.00
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of New York CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for New York County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Margin—
Turnout—
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 | +26.8% |
| 1896 | −6.7% |
| 1900 | +8.3% |
| 1904 | +9.4% |
| 1908 | +1.5% |
| 1912 | +29.6% |
| 1916 | +9.9% |
| 1920 | −30.1% |
| 1924 | −1.6% |
| 1928 | +25.1% |
| 1932 | +39.1% |
| 1936 | +48.2% |
| 1940 | +23.9% |
| 1944 | +32.4% |
| 1948 | +18.8% |
| 1952 | +19.1% |
| 1956 | +11.5% |
| 1960 | +31.1% |
| 1964 | +61.3% |
| 1968 | +44.5% |
| 1972 | +32.9% |
| 1976 | +47.7% |
| 1980 | +36.2% |
| 1984 | +44.7% |
| 1988 | +53.3% |
| 1992 | +62.3% |
| 1996 | +66.2% |
| 2000 | +65.2% |
| 2004 | +65.3% |
| 2008 | +72.2% |
| 2012 | +68.8% |
| 2016 | +76.9% |
| 2020 | +74.5% |
| 2024 | +63.6% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 533,782 | 113,921 | 660,633 | ||
| D | 603,040 | 85,185 | 695,263 | ||
| D | 579,013 | 64,930 | 668,940 | ||
| D | 502,674 | 89,559 | 600,291 | ||
| D | 572,126 | 89,906 | 667,594 | ||
| D | 526,765 | 107,405 | 641,951 | ||
| D | 454,523 | 82,113 | 571,006 | ||
| D | 394,131 | 67,839 | 492,899 | ||
| D | 416,142 | 84,501 | 532,118 | ||
| D | 385,675 | 115,927 | 506,551 | ||
| D | 379,521 | 144,281 | 526,671 | ||
| D | 275,742 | 115,911 | 441,898 | ||
| D | 337,438 | 117,702 | 460,838 | ||
| D | 354,326 | 178,515 | 534,863 | ||
| D | 370,806 | 135,458 | 529,392 | ||
| D | 503,848 | 120,125 | 625,719 | ||
| D | 414,902 | 217,271 | 635,567 | ||
| D | 377,856 | 300,004 | 677,860 | ||
| D | 446,727 | 300,284 | 765,183 | ||
| D | 380,310 | 241,752 | 738,270 | ||
| D | 509,263 | 258,650 | 772,777 | ||
| D | 478,153 | 292,480 | 778,099 | ||
| D | 517,134 | 174,299 | 711,253 | ||
| D | 378,077 | 157,014 | 565,205 | ||
| D | 317,227 | 186,396 | 521,558 | ||
| R | 183,249 | 190,871 | 463,326 | ||
| R | 135,249 | 275,013 | 464,420 | ||
| D | 139,547 | 113,254 | 265,560 | ||
| D | 166,157 | 63,107 | 347,655 | ||
| D | 160,261 | 154,958 | 346,612 | ||
| D | 189,712 | 155,003 | 368,072 | ||
| D | 181,786 | 153,001 | 346,487 | ||
| R | 135,624 | 156,359 | 308,232 | ||
| D | 175,267 | 98,967 | 284,984 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
Irish
7.1%
Italian
6.1%
German
5.7%
English
5.1%
American
4.5%
Polish
3.3%
French
2.0%
African American
11.0%
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: 38.9 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
$103,931
New York County ranks in the top 5% of US counties.
New York County$103,931
New York$85,974
United States$80,734
New York 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
16.5%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1820.8%
Working age (18–64)15.5%
Seniors (65+)19.1%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
63.1%
speak English only
Spanish19.2%
Other Indo-European8.2%
Asian & Pacific Islander7.5%
Other languages2.0%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
New York County—coterminous with Manhattan—delivers presidential margins exceeding 60 points for Democrats, driven by one of the highest urban population densities in the country and a highly educated, renter-majority electorate.
New York County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of seventy-seven points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved eleven 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 48% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $103,931, and a population of 1,629,477. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of District of Columbia and Jefferson County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did New York County, New York vote in 2024?
In 2024, New York County, New York voted Democratic by 63.6 points (D+64), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 660,633 votes cast, 533,782 went Democratic and 113,921 went Republican.
What is New York County, New York's political typology?
Akashic places New York County, New York 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 31 times, Republican 3 times, and other 0 times.
When did New York County, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which New York County, New York voted Republican was 1924.
How many people live in New York County, New York?
New York County, New York has a population of 1,629,477 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in New York County, New York?
Median household income in New York County, New York is $103,931 — above the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of New York County, New York?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in New York County, New York from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 31 went Democratic and 3 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.