† 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
5 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · 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
GroupHattiesburg-Laurel, MSMississippiUnited States
American16.3%10.0%5.3%
English10.4%10.6%9.5%
Irish8.1%7.4%9.4%
German6.1%5.1%12.5%
Scottish2.3%1.6%1.3%
French2.0%1.7%1.6%
Scotch-Irish1.6%1.0%—
Italian1.2%1.7%4.8%
African American†29.2%35.3%9.9%
African0.5%0.8%0.5%
Mexican2.5%1.9%11.3%
Guatemalan0.4%0.2%0.5%
Honduran0.3%0.2%0.3%
Puerto Rican0.2%0.3%1.8%
Spanish0.2%——
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
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Mississippi
United States
Median age
36.4
38.6
39.1
Age 18–24
11.3%
9.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.1%
17.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Mississippi
United States
Median household income
$57,482
$56,447
$84,427
Poverty rate
18.4%
19.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
26.8%
25.3%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Mississippi
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.0%
4.3%
22.3%
Spanish
2.8%
2.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Mississippi
United States
Catholic
3.0%
3.4%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
46.6%
39.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
37.1%
40.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.6%
6.6%
5.2%
Black Protestant
5.3%
8.6%
2.2%
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.
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+84.6%
1896
+90.7%
1900
+59.3%
1904
No data
1908
No data
1912
+79.2%
1916
+79.1%
1920
+56.2%
1924
+74.8%
1928
+14.1%
1932
+88.4%
1936
+90.8%
1940
+90.2%
1944
+85.2%
1948
+5.1%
1952
+8.5%
1956
+23.7%
1960
+7.3%
1964
−76.4%
1968
−1.0%
1972
−67.8%
1976
−6.2%
1980
−12.0%
1984
−39.8%
1988
−36.8%
1992
−22.1%
1996
−22.4%
2000
−33.3%
2004
−37.4%
2008
−31.5%
2012
−30.0%
2016
−34.0%
2020
−31.2%
2024
−36.4%
DemocraticRepublican
34 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.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
31.3%Harris30,585
67.6%Trump66,162
0.4%Kennedy431 +6
R+36.4
R+5.2
R+34.9
97,821
All 9 candidates in 2024 · 7 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican67.6%66,162
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic31.3%30,585
Robert F KennedyIndependent0.4%431
Chase OliverLibertarian0.2%216
Jill SteinIndependent0.1%146
Randall TerryIndependent0.1%84
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.1%79
Peter SonskiIndependent0.1%79
Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent0.0%39
R
33.7%Biden35,315
64.8%Trump68,022
1.5%
R+31.2
D+2.8
R+35.6
104,927
R
31.9%Clinton30,285
65.9%Trump62,518
2.2%
R+34.0
R+4.0
R+36.0
94,915
R
34.5%Obama34,601
64.5%Romney64,692
1.0%
R+30.0
D+1.5
R+33.8
100,346
R
33.8%Obama32,185
65.3%McCain62,152
0.9%
R+31.5
D+6.0
R+38.7
95,241
R
31.0%Kerry26,919
68.4%Bush59,455
0.6%
R+37.4
R+4.1
R+35.0
86,915
R
32.5%Gore24,080
65.9%Bush48,737
1.6%
R+33.3
R+10.9
R+33.8
73,999
R
35.4%Clinton23,077
57.8%Dole37,700
6.9%
R+22.4
R+0.3
R+30.9
65,260
R
33.9%Clinton24,125
56.0%Bush39,842
10.1%
R+22.1
D+14.7
R+27.7
71,144
R
31.3%Dukakis21,381
68.1%Bush46,509
0.5%
R+36.8
D+3.0
R+29.1
68,255
R
29.8%Mondale20,567
69.5%Reagan48,059
0.7%
R+39.8
R+27.8
R+21.6
69,106
R
43.3%Carter28,166
55.3%Reagan35,987
1.5%
R+12.0
R+5.8
R+2.3
65,098
R
45.8%Carter26,236
52.0%Ford29,807
2.2%
R+6.2
D+61.6
R+8.3
57,324
R
14.9%McGovern7,597
82.7%Nixon42,215
2.4%
R+67.8
R+66.8
R+44.7
51,039
O
15.3%Humphrey7,210
16.3%Nixon7,682
68.5%
Wallace +52.2
D+75.4
R+0.3
47,206
R
11.8%Johnson3,958
88.2%Goldwater29,555
0.0%
R+76.4
R+83.7
R+99.0
33,513
D
36.6%Kennedy9,251
29.3%Nixon7,413
34.1%
D+7.3
R+16.4
D+7.1
25,272
D
53.3%Stevenson10,409
29.6%Eisenhower5,782
17.1%
D+23.7
D+15.1
D+39.1
19,539
D
54.3%Stevenson12,734
45.7%Eisenhower10,732
0.0%
D+8.5
D+3.4
D+19.3
23,466
O
7.8%Truman1,304
2.7%Dewey447
89.5%
Thurmond +81.7
R+80.0
D+0.7
16,696
D
92.6%Roosevelt11,959
7.4%Dewey957
0.0%
D+85.2
R+5.0
D+77.7
12,916
D
95.0%Roosevelt11,281
4.9%Willkie578
0.1%
D+90.2
R+0.6
D+80.2
11,869
D
95.1%Roosevelt12,008
4.3%Landon547
0.5%
D+90.8
D+2.4
D+66.5
12,622
D
93.0%Roosevelt8,966
4.6%Hoover439
2.5%
D+88.4
D+74.4
D+70.6
9,642
D
57.0%Smith6,057
43.0%Hoover4,563
0.0%
D+14.1
R+60.7
D+31.5
10,620
D
83.2%Davis6,634
8.4%Coolidge670
8.4%
D+74.8
D+18.5
D+100.0
7,974
D
74.7%Cox3,722
18.4%Harding918
6.9%
D+56.2
R+22.9
D+82.4
4,985
D
86.2%Wilson4,989
7.1%Hughes409
6.8%
D+79.1
R+0.1
D+76.0
5,789
D
81.1%Wilson3,460
1.9%Taft82
17.0%
D+79.2
—
D+59.6
4,266
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
No data
—
—
—
D
77.7%Bryan1,788
18.4%McKinley424
3.9%
D+59.3
R+31.5
D+66.8
2,302
D
94.3%Bryan2,224
3.6%McKinley85
2.1%
D+90.7
D+6.1
D+96.8
2,358
D
85.4%Cleveland1,267
0.8%Harrison12
13.8%
D+84.6
—
D+83.0
1,483
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
31.0%30,065
69.0%66,996
97,061
2020
R
36.8%38,561
61.0%63,890
104,714
2018
R
32.1%23,716
65.1%48,069
73,832
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
151,079
2018
153,205
2020
159,664
2022
155,929
2024
161,142
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+233 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −3,160 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+642
2012
+216
2013
+462
2014
−1,379
2015
−305
2016
−698
2017
−1,302
2018
−384
2019
−264
2021
+174
2022
+19
2023
−205
2024
−369
2025
+233
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 76.4 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.4 points.
A population of 237,965, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,482 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL and Monroe-Ruston, LA.
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How did Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Republican by 36.4 points (R+36.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 97,821 votes cast, 30,585 went Democratic and 66,162 went Republican.
When did Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic was 1960.
How many people live in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi has a population of 237,965 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi is $57,482 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
