† 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
8 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
GroupMilwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WIWisconsinUnited States
German32.6%35.8%12.5%
Irish9.7%10.4%9.4%
Polish9.0%7.6%2.2%
English5.6%6.7%9.5%
Italian4.3%2.7%4.8%
Norwegian3.1%6.1%—
American2.9%3.4%5.3%
French1.7%2.2%1.6%
African American†12.4%5.3%9.9%
African0.3%0.2%0.5%
Mexican8.1%5.4%11.3%
Puerto Rican2.2%1.1%1.8%
Hmong0.8%1.0%—
Asian Indian0.8%0.6%1.4%
Burmese0.3%——
Chinese0.3%0.4%1.3%
Filipino0.2%0.2%0.9%
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
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI
Wisconsin
United States
Median age
39.4
40.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.8%
9.3%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.4%
18.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI
Wisconsin
United States
Median household income
$79,900
$77,485
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.6%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
36.7%
33.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI
Wisconsin
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
12.4%
9.1%
22.3%
Spanish
7.7%
5.0%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.0%
0.7%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.3%
1.2%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI
Wisconsin
United States
Catholic
22.9%
21.0%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
16.2%
14.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
47.6%
52.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.9%
8.4%
5.2%
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.
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+6.7%
1896
−15.6%
1900
−12.3%
1904
−18.7%
1908
−3.5%
1912
+16.1%
1916
+3.5%
1920
−42.5%
1924
−27.1%
1928
+4.7%
1932
+40.6%
1936
+47.2%
1940
+12.0%
1944
+8.5%
1948
+7.7%
1952
−12.5%
1956
−20.0%
1960
+5.0%
1964
+25.0%
1968
+0.4%
1972
−7.1%
1976
+1.1%
1980
−2.9%
1984
−4.7%
1988
+4.7%
1992
+1.8%
1996
+6.6%
2000
−4.2%
2004
−3.8%
2008
+7.4%
2012
+2.9%
2016
+2.4%
2020
+4.3%
2024
+3.4%
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
D
50.8%Harris591,122
47.4%Trump551,686
0.5%Stein5,267 +7
D+3.4
R+0.9
D+4.9
1,163,502
All 10 candidates in 2024 · 8 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic50.8%591,122
Donald J TrumpRepublican47.4%551,686
Jill SteinIndependent0.5%5,267
Robert F KennedyNonpartisan0.4%5,168
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%3,505
OtherAll other candidates0.3%3,205
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.1%1,352
Randall TerryIndependent0.1%1,215
Claudia De La CruzNonpartisan0.1%851
Peter Sonski Lauren OnakNonpartisan0.0%131
D
51.3%Biden583,808
47.0%Trump535,173
1.6%
D+4.3
D+1.9
R+0.2
1,137,741
D
48.1%Clinton500,956
45.7%Trump476,412
6.2%
D+2.4
R+0.5
D+0.3
1,041,843
D
50.9%Obama568,022
48.0%Romney535,645
1.1%
D+2.9
R+4.5
R+1.0
1,115,427
D
53.1%Obama569,672
45.7%McCain490,048
1.2%
D+7.4
D+11.2
D+0.1
1,072,918
R
47.7%Kerry512,248
51.5%Bush552,945
0.9%
R+3.8
D+0.4
R+1.3
1,074,564
R
46.0%Gore436,631
50.2%Bush476,797
3.8%
R+4.2
R+10.8
R+4.7
949,557
D
48.1%Clinton382,060
41.5%Dole329,820
10.4%
D+6.6
D+4.8
R+1.9
794,305
D
40.9%Clinton380,740
39.1%Bush364,399
19.9%
D+1.8
R+2.9
R+3.8
930,787
D
52.0%Dukakis430,766
47.3%Bush391,970
0.7%
D+4.7
D+9.4
D+12.4
828,374
R
47.3%Mondale398,860
52.1%Reagan438,818
0.6%
R+4.7
R+1.8
D+13.5
843,064
R
44.3%Carter378,719
47.2%Reagan403,579
8.5%
R+2.9
R+4.0
D+6.8
854,814
D
49.1%Carter398,297
48.0%Ford389,083
2.9%
D+1.1
D+8.2
R+0.9
810,506
R
44.8%McGovern319,889
51.9%Nixon370,372
3.4%
R+7.1
R+7.5
D+16.1
714,293
D
45.8%Humphrey305,538
45.3%Nixon302,628
8.9%
D+0.4
R+24.6
D+1.1
667,347
D
62.4%Johnson427,776
37.4%Goldwater256,408
0.2%
D+25.0
D+20.0
D+2.4
685,509
D
52.4%Kennedy359,873
47.4%Nixon325,542
0.2%
D+5.0
D+25.0
D+4.8
686,793
R
39.7%Stevenson242,092
59.7%Eisenhower364,030
0.7%
R+20.0
R+7.5
R+4.6
610,177
R
43.6%Stevenson273,397
56.0%Eisenhower351,722
0.4%
R+12.5
R+20.2
R+1.7
627,656
D
51.8%Truman254,354
44.1%Dewey216,351
4.1%
D+7.7
R+0.8
D+3.3
490,597
D
53.4%Roosevelt271,787
44.9%Dewey228,487
1.6%
D+8.5
R+3.4
D+1.0
508,534
D
54.8%Roosevelt276,836
42.8%Willkie216,436
2.4%
D+12.0
R+35.3
D+2.0
505,403
D
70.4%Roosevelt306,710
23.1%Landon100,846
6.5%
D+47.2
D+6.6
D+23.0
435,922
D
65.3%Roosevelt251,883
24.7%Hoover95,232
10.0%
D+40.6
D+36.0
D+22.8
385,687
D
50.0%Smith161,320
45.4%Hoover146,285
4.6%
D+4.7
D+31.7
D+22.1
322,431
O
9.8%Davis24,065
36.8%Coolidge90,699
53.4%
La Follette +16.5
D+15.4
R+1.9
246,150
R
17.9%Cox39,804
60.4%Harding134,609
21.8%
R+42.5
R+46.0
R+16.3
222,982
D
44.3%Wilson58,412
40.8%Hughes53,842
14.9%
D+3.5
R+12.7
D+0.3
131,957
D
43.8%Wilson51,186
27.7%Taft32,326
28.5%
D+16.1
D+19.6
R+3.4
116,802
R
39.6%Bryan49,710
43.0%Taft54,050
17.4%
R+3.5
D+15.2
D+6.1
125,590
R
31.2%Parker37,734
49.9%Roosevelt60,273
18.9%
R+18.7
R+6.4
D+1.0
120,802
R
40.8%Bryan48,665
53.1%McKinley63,347
6.1%
R+12.3
D+3.3
R+4.8
119,333
R
40.6%Bryan48,352
56.2%McKinley66,912
3.2%
R+15.6
R+22.3
R+9.5
119,106
D
51.3%Cleveland50,334
44.5%Harrison43,713
4.2%
D+6.7
—
D+5.1
98,200
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
50.9%586,109
47.1%541,781
1,151,241
2022
D
50.3%454,613
49.5%446,964
903,365
2018
D
54.0%508,867
45.8%431,804
942,040
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,526 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −99,285 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−5,857
2012
−4,757
2013
−6,396
2014
−7,586
2015
−10,606
2016
−11,163
2017
−9,380
2018
−7,140
2019
−5,767
2021
−14,926
2022
−6,976
2023
−4,238
2024
−2,967
2025
−1,526
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 42.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.4 points.
A population of 2,046,872, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,900 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI and Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI.
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How did Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin vote in 2024?
In 2024, Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin voted Democratic by 3.4 points (D+3.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,163,502 votes cast, 591,122 went Democratic and 551,686 went Republican.
When did Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin has a population of 2,046,872 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Median household income in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin is $79,900 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wisconsin state median is $77,485.
What is the political history of Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
