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Houston-Pasadena, TX

Contests in this Place (32 available)

President29 · 1912–2024 · all mapped

▦ precinct · ▥ counties · ▢ no spatial detail

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1912–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1912 → 2024

14 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

Mexican26.1%32.1%11.3%

Salvadoran2.9%1.2%0.7%

Honduran1.8%0.8%0.3%

Cuban0.9%0.5%0.7%

Venezuelan0.9%——

Puerto Rican0.8%0.8%1.8%

Guatemalan0.8%0.4%0.5%

Colombian0.7%0.3%0.4%

German7.1%8.3%12.5%

English6.8%7.9%9.5%

Irish4.9%6.0%9.4%

American3.7%4.6%5.3%

Italian2.0%1.9%4.8%

French1.6%1.5%1.6%

Scottish1.0%1.3%1.3%

Polish0.9%0.8%2.2%

African American†14.6%10.3%9.9%

Nigerian0.9%0.4%0.2%

African0.7%0.6%0.5%

Jamaican0.2%—0.4%

Asian Indian2.1%1.8%1.4%

Vietnamese2.0%1.0%0.6%

Chinese1.4%0.8%1.3%

Filipino0.8%0.5%0.9%

Pakistani0.7%0.3%—

Korean0.3%0.3%0.4%

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	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Median age	35.6	35.7	39.1
Age 18–24	9.2%	9.7%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	12.4%	13.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Median household income	$83,105	$78,476	$84,427
Poverty rate	14.0%	13.8%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	35.6%	33.6%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Owner-occupied homes	61.4%	62.6%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	38.6%	37.4%	34.8%
Median home value	$295,900	$283,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,421	$1,403	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	53.1%	51.7%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	8.6%	9.4%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Mean commute	29.8 min	26.7 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	10.4%	8.2%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	71.7%	71.4%	68.8%
Takes public transit	1.5%	0.9%	3.2%
Works from home	13.3%	14.4%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	39.5%	35.2%	22.3%
Spanish	29.3%	28.2%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	2.5%	1.7%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	1.3%	0.7%	1.1%
Vietnamese	1.7%	0.9%	0.5%

Religious landscape

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Catholic	18.3%	20.1%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	23.7%	23.5%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	45.3%	45.2%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	Houston-Pasadena, TX	Texas	United States
Foreign-born residents	23.9%	17.6%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	10.3%	7.4%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	13.5%	10.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	4.8%	6.2%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.486	0.478	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).

President results by year

Vote totals, margins, and source status

HarrisDemocratic45.2%1,235,044TrumpRepublican53.2%1,454,210SteinIndependent1.0%26,393

R+8.0

Lead: 219,166
Total: 2,733,494
vs nation: R+6.5

BidenDemocratic49.1%1,353,025TrumpRepublican49.5%1,362,702OtherAll other candidates1.4%38,292

R+0.4

Lead: 9,677
Total: 2,754,019
vs nation: R+4.8

ClintonDemocratic46.6%1,010,420TrumpRepublican49.1%1,062,910OtherAll other candidates4.3%92,896

R+2.4

Lead: 52,490
Total: 2,166,226
vs nation: R+4.5

ObamaDemocratic43.1%832,056RomneyRepublican55.7%1,075,602OtherAll other candidates1.3%24,706

R+12.6

Lead: 243,546
Total: 1,932,364
vs nation: R+16.5

ObamaDemocratic45.2%846,957McCainRepublican54.0%1,012,449OtherAll other candidates0.8%14,098

R+8.8

Lead: 165,492
Total: 1,873,504
vs nation: R+16.1

KerryDemocratic40.6%685,609BushRepublican58.7%991,252OtherAll other candidates0.7%10,986

R+18.1

Lead: 305,643
Total: 1,687,847
vs nation: R+15.7

GoreDemocratic39.8%592,096BushRepublican57.6%857,125OtherAll other candidates2.6%38,075

R+17.8

Lead: 265,029
Total: 1,487,296
vs nation: R+18.3

ClintonDemocratic43.1%546,904DoleRepublican50.6%642,587OtherAll other candidates6.3%80,613

R+7.5

Lead: 95,683
Total: 1,270,104
vs nation: R+16.1

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+8.0MIT Election Lab
Population: 7,637,7672024 5-year
Population density: 616 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
Land area: 12,406 sq miTIGER/Line
Median household income: $83,1052024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 33.3%2024 5-year
Black: 16.9%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 38.0%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+75.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+26.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
Most similar: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK · twin score 91.8

presidential history

Party record book

Houston-Pasadena, TX · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.

1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles

Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.

Democratic

Franklin D. Roosevelt1936

87.7%

91,217 votes · D+75.7

Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 86.0%

Republican

Richard Nixon1972

63.0%

478,557 votes · R+26.5

Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.3%

Most votes

Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.

Democratic

Joe Biden2020

1,353,025votes

49.1% of the vote · R+0.4

Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,235,044 votes

Republican

Donald Trump2024

1,454,210votes

53.2% of the vote · R+8.0

Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,362,702 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

John W. Davis1924

+68.5pts D vs U.S.

Place D+43.4 · U.S. R+25.2

Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +54.8 pts

Republican

George W. Bush2000

+18.3pts R vs U.S.

Place R+17.8 · U.S. D+0.5

Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +16.5 pts

presidential primaries

Nominating contests

Houston-Pasadena, TX · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.

Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.

Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.

Presidential nominating contests in Houston-Pasadena, TX, by party and cycle.
Party	2008	2012	2016	2020	2024
Democratic	Clinton9Obama5620,843 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary	Obama14101,119 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary	Clinton14312,999 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary	Biden14477,494 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary	no contest record
Republicannot ingested	no contest record	no contest record	no contest record	no contest record	no contest record

no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.

Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.

Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.

County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.

voter registration

Registered voters

Total registered voters, over time

Registered voters

Voter registration in Houston-Pasadena, TX
Year	Total registered
2016	3,572,297
2018	3,680,483
2020	4,043,638
2022	4,239,589
2024	4,489,967

domestic migration

Who moves in and out

Net domestic migration over time

+8,134 net domestic migration · 2025

20112025

Net +405,595 over 2011–2025 · gain loss

Domestic migration in Houston-Pasadena, TX in Houston-Pasadena, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year	Net domestic migration
2011	+23,605
2012	+38,544
2013	+55,064
2014	+67,470
2015	+63,437
2016	+28,273
2017	−8,551
2018	−9,022
2019	+7,257
2021	+28,457
2022	+39,076
2023	+43,082
2024	+20,769
2025	+8,134

Houston-Pasadena, TX sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 26.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.0 points.

A population of 7,637,767, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,105 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK and San Antonio-New Braunfels-Kerrville, TX.

Political twins — combined metros

The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK

91.8twin score

population scale12-yr trend% Asian

San Antonio-New Braunfels-Kerrville, TX

78.3twin score

% White12-yr trend2000 margin≠ % Asian

Phoenix-Mesa, AZ

75.4twin score

12-yr trendpopulation scale% Latino≠ % Asian

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.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas vote in 2024?

In 2024, Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas voted Republican by 8.0 points (R+8.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,733,494 votes cast, 1,235,044 went Democratic and 1,454,210 went Republican.

When did Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.

How many people live in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas has a population of 7,637,767 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Median household income in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas is $83,105 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.

What is the political history of Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Median age

35.6

35.7

39.1

Age 18–24

9.2%

9.7%

9.2%

Age 65 and older

12.4%

13.5%

17.2%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Median household income

$83,105

$78,476

$84,427

Poverty rate

14.0%

13.8%

12.5%

Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)

35.6%

33.6%

35.6%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Owner-occupied homes

61.4%

62.6%

65.2%

Renter-occupied homes

38.6%

37.4%

34.8%

Median home value

$295,900

$283,800

$332,700

Median gross rent (monthly)

$1,421

$1,403

$1,413

Renters paying 30%+ of income

53.1%

51.7%

51.1%

Vacant housing units

8.6%

9.4%

10.1%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Mean commute

29.8 min

26.7 min

26.4 min

Commutes 60 minutes or more

10.4%

8.2%

8.6%

Drives alone to work

71.7%

71.4%

68.8%

Takes public transit

1.5%

0.9%

3.2%

Works from home

13.3%

14.4%

15.1%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Speaks a non-English language at home

39.5%

35.2%

22.3%

Spanish

29.3%

28.2%

13.6%

Other Indo-European

2.5%

1.7%

2.0%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)

1.3%

0.7%

1.1%

Vietnamese

1.7%

0.9%

0.5%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Catholic

18.3%

20.1%

18.6%

Evangelical Protestant

23.7%

23.5%

16.5%

Unclaimed / not counted

45.3%

45.2%

51.5%

Measure

Houston-Pasadena, TX

Texas

United States

Foreign-born residents

23.9%

17.6%

14.1%

Naturalized citizens

10.3%

7.4%

Not U.S. citizens

13.5%

10.2%

6.8%

Veterans (18+)

4.8%

6.2%

Income inequality (Gini)

0.486

0.478

0.483

Key facts

2024 presidential margin

R+8.0MIT Election Lab

Population

7,637,7672024 5-year

Population density

616 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line

Land area

12,406 sq miTIGER/Line

Median household income

$83,1052024 5-year

White (non-Hispanic)

33.3%2024 5-year

Black

16.9%2024 5-year

Hispanic / Latino

38.0%2024 5-year

Peak Democratic margin

D+75.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab

Peak Republican margin

R+26.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab

Most similar

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK · twin score 91.8

Nominating contests

Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.

2008

2012

2016

2020

2024

Democratic

Clinton9Obama5620,843 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary

Obama14101,119 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary

Clinton14312,999 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary

Biden14477,494 votes · 14 of 14 countiesprimary

no contest record

Republicannot ingested

no contest record

Frequently asked questions

Voter registration in Houston-Pasadena, TX
Year	Total registered
2016	3,572,297
2018	3,680,483
2020	4,043,638
2022	4,239,589
2024	4,489,967

How did Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas vote in 2024?

In 2024, Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas voted Republican by 8.0 points (R+8.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,733,494 votes cast, 1,235,044 went Democratic and 1,454,210 went Republican.

When did Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.

How many people live in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas has a population of 7,637,767 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Median household income in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas is $83,105 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.

What is the political history of Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas?

Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Houston-Pasadena, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.

Houston-Pasadena, TX

President margin by year

Age and life stage

Household economy

Housing and tenure

Getting to work

Languages at home

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Houston-Pasadena, TX

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