† 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
3 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
GroupSalisbury-Ocean Pines, MDMarylandUnited States
English13.3%8.5%9.5%
German12.2%11.4%12.5%
Irish11.5%9.3%9.4%
American8.2%4.1%5.3%
Italian5.3%4.4%4.8%
Polish2.5%2.6%2.2%
Scottish1.4%1.1%1.3%
French1.4%1.1%1.6%
African American†19.9%23.6%9.9%
Haitian2.5%0.3%0.3%
African0.5%1.2%0.5%
Sudanese0.4%——
Jamaican0.2%0.7%0.4%
Mexican2.3%2.0%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.7%1.2%1.8%
Guatemalan0.4%1.2%0.5%
Dominican0.4%0.5%0.7%
Salvadoran0.3%3.5%0.7%
Spaniard0.2%——
Honduran0.2%0.7%0.3%
Korean0.5%0.8%0.4%
Chinese0.3%1.3%1.3%
Asian Indian0.2%1.7%1.4%
Filipino0.2%0.9%0.9%
Pakistani0.2%0.3%—
Taiwanese0.2%——
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
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD
Maryland
United States
Median age
40.7
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
11.7%
8.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
20.2%
16.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD
Maryland
United States
Median household income
$76,306
$103,678
$84,427
Poverty rate
13.1%
9.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
29.8%
43.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD
Maryland
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
10.7%
21.1%
22.3%
Spanish
4.2%
9.6%
13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)
2.4%
1.3%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
1.6%
2.5%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD
Maryland
United States
Catholic
11.5%
14.7%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
15.4%
11.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
55.1%
56.6%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
12.1%
6.6%
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.
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+11.6%
1896
−1.1%
1900
No data
1904
No data
1908
No data
1912
+55.2%
1916
+6.3%
1920
+1.7%
1924
+10.7%
1928
−27.6%
1932
+22.4%
1936
+9.2%
1940
+11.5%
1944
−1.9%
1948
−0.3%
1952
−17.4%
1956
−26.2%
1960
−6.5%
1964
+11.0%
1968
−16.1%
1972
−41.9%
1976
−4.2%
1980
−7.5%
1984
−33.4%
1988
−25.6%
1992
−6.4%
1996
+0.4%
2000
−5.1%
2004
−18.7%
2008
−8.7%
2012
−8.6%
2016
−16.0%
2020
−9.5%
2024
−12.8%
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
42.3%Harris37,998
55.0%Trump49,502
1.1%Kennedy1,000 +7
R+12.8
R+3.3
R+11.3
89,930
All 10 candidates in 2024 · 8 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican55.0%49,502
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic42.3%37,998
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent1.1%1,000
Jill Ellen SteinIndependent0.7%640
OtherAll other candidates0.4%392
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%376
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%10
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%6
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%5
Shondra IrvingIndependent0.0%1
R
44.1%Biden38,855
53.7%Trump47,254
2.2%
R+9.5
D+6.5
R+14.0
88,054
R
40.1%Clinton31,999
56.1%Trump44,749
3.7%
R+16.0
R+7.4
R+18.1
79,715
R
44.8%Obama35,889
53.4%Romney42,757
1.8%
R+8.6
D+0.1
R+12.4
80,078
R
45.0%Obama35,589
53.7%McCain42,493
1.3%
R+8.7
D+10.0
R+16.0
79,122
R
40.2%Kerry28,819
58.9%Bush42,231
0.9%
R+18.7
R+13.6
R+16.2
71,726
R
46.0%Gore27,643
51.0%Bush30,689
3.0%
R+5.1
R+5.5
R+5.6
60,152
D
45.6%Clinton23,447
45.2%Dole23,227
9.2%
D+0.4
D+6.8
R+8.1
51,386
R
37.9%Clinton20,731
44.3%Bush24,247
17.9%
R+6.4
D+19.2
R+12.0
54,767
R
37.1%Dukakis17,111
62.6%Bush28,924
0.3%
R+25.6
D+7.8
R+17.9
46,182
R
33.2%Mondale14,369
66.6%Reagan28,840
0.2%
R+33.4
R+25.9
R+15.2
43,316
R
43.4%Carter16,968
50.9%Reagan19,903
5.6%
R+7.5
R+3.3
D+2.2
39,078
R
47.9%Carter16,960
52.1%Ford18,438
0.0%
R+4.2
D+37.7
R+6.2
35,398
R
28.6%McGovern9,338
70.5%Nixon23,041
0.9%
R+41.9
R+25.8
R+18.8
32,688
R
29.6%Humphrey9,757
45.7%Nixon15,077
24.7%
R+16.1
R+27.1
R+15.4
32,960
D
55.5%Johnson16,935
44.5%Goldwater13,576
0.0%
D+11.0
D+17.5
R+11.6
30,511
R
46.8%Kennedy14,645
53.2%Nixon16,677
0.0%
R+6.5
D+19.7
R+6.7
31,322
R
36.9%Stevenson10,890
63.1%Eisenhower18,612
0.0%
R+26.2
R+8.7
R+10.8
29,502
R
41.1%Stevenson12,537
58.6%Eisenhower17,855
0.3%
R+17.4
R+17.2
R+6.7
30,483
R
49.6%Truman10,808
49.8%Dewey10,864
0.6%
R+0.3
D+1.6
R+4.7
21,808
R
49.1%Roosevelt11,412
50.9%Dewey11,848
0.0%
R+1.9
R+13.4
R+9.4
23,260
D
55.3%Roosevelt14,938
43.8%Willkie11,830
0.9%
D+11.5
D+2.3
D+1.6
27,008
D
54.2%Roosevelt14,956
45.1%Landon12,421
0.7%
D+9.2
R+13.2
R+15.1
27,569
D
60.9%Roosevelt15,299
38.5%Hoover9,665
0.5%
D+22.4
D+50.1
D+4.7
25,102
R
36.0%Smith8,488
63.7%Hoover14,999
0.3%
R+27.6
R+38.3
R+10.2
23,562
D
54.2%Davis11,935
43.5%Coolidge9,578
2.4%
D+10.7
D+9.0
D+35.9
22,031
D
50.5%Cox11,364
48.7%Harding10,973
0.8%
D+1.7
R+4.5
D+27.9
22,510
D
51.6%Wilson7,308
45.4%Hughes6,423
3.0%
D+6.3
R+48.9
D+3.1
14,152
D
89.5%Wilson11,257
34.4%Taft4,323
0.0%
D+55.2
—
D+35.6
12,572
—
2913.3%Bryan10,954
1528.2%Taft5,746
0.0%
No data
—
—
376
—
4424.4%Parker13,760
1544.4%Roosevelt4,803
0.0%
No data
—
—
311
—
75844.4%Bryan6,826
71733.3%McKinley6,456
0.0%
No data
—
—
9
R
46.2%Bryan5,685
47.3%McKinley5,822
6.4%
R+1.1
R+12.7
D+5.0
12,296
D
51.9%Cleveland5,625
40.3%Harrison4,367
7.7%
D+11.6
—
D+10.0
10,830
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
33.0%29,395
62.4%55,555
88,992
2022
R
43.0%26,289
56.9%34,731
61,076
2018
R
46.0%30,031
49.7%32,412
65,246
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+5.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+12.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 7.2 points more Democratic.
Domestic migration in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+209
2012
−362
2013
−368
2014
−370
2015
−44
2016
+126
2017
+97
2018
+637
2019
+815
2021
+1,147
2022
+894
2023
+685
2024
+264
2025
+471
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 41.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.8 points.
A population of 183,436, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,306 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Macon-Bibb County--Warner Robins, GA and Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA.
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How did Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland vote in 2024?
In 2024, Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland voted Republican by 12.8 points (R+12.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 89,930 votes cast, 37,998 went Democratic and 49,502 went Republican.
When did Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland?
Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland has a population of 183,436 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland?
Median household income in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland is $76,306 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salisbury-Ocean Pines, MD, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
