† 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
11 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
GroupBaltimoreMarylandUnited States
German13.6%11.4%12.5%
Irish11.3%9.3%9.4%
English9.5%8.5%9.5%
Italian5.5%4.4%4.8%
American4.3%4.1%5.3%
Polish3.4%2.6%2.2%
Scottish1.5%1.1%1.3%
French1.1%1.1%1.6%
African American†23.3%23.6%9.9%
Nigerian1.0%1.1%0.2%
African1.0%1.2%0.5%
Jamaican0.5%0.7%0.4%
Ethiopian0.3%0.7%—
Ghanaian0.2%0.3%—
Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.2%0.2%—
Mexican1.7%2.0%11.3%
Salvadoran1.3%3.5%0.7%
Puerto Rican1.3%1.2%1.8%
Guatemalan0.6%1.2%0.5%
Honduran0.5%0.7%0.3%
Cuban0.3%—0.7%
Dominican0.3%0.5%0.7%
Colombian0.2%0.4%0.4%
Asian Indian1.5%1.7%1.4%
Chinese1.0%1.3%1.3%
Korean0.8%0.8%0.4%
Filipino0.7%0.9%0.9%
Pakistani0.4%0.3%—
Vietnamese0.3%0.4%0.6%
Nepalese0.2%0.2%—
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
Baltimore
Maryland
United States
Median age
39.4
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
8.5%
8.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.9%
16.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Baltimore
Maryland
United States
Median household income
$102,359
$103,678
$84,427
Poverty rate
9.8%
9.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
43.1%
43.5%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Baltimore
Maryland
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
14.3%
21.1%
22.3%
Spanish
5.4%
9.6%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
2.2%
2.5%
2.0%
Other languages
1.6%
2.5%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Baltimore
Maryland
United States
Catholic
12.2%
14.7%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
10.5%
11.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
61.0%
56.6%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
6.3%
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.
Baltimore, Maryland
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+14.0%
1896
−14.3%
1900
No data
1904
No data
1908
No data
1912
+81.2%
1916
+10.3%
1920
−14.0%
1924
−2.6%
1928
−9.5%
1932
+29.9%
1936
+29.6%
1940
+20.4%
1944
+8.5%
1948
+1.5%
1952
−8.0%
1956
−21.9%
1960
+10.4%
1964
+34.1%
1968
+4.9%
1972
−24.9%
1976
+6.7%
1980
+9.2%
1984
−6.3%
1988
−4.2%
1992
+12.0%
1996
+11.1%
2000
+9.8%
2004
+4.1%
2008
+14.9%
2012
+15.9%
2016
+15.4%
2020
+23.2%
2024
+20.2%
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
58.4%Harris891,227
38.2%Trump582,994
1.0%Stein15,491 +20
D+20.2
R+3.0
D+21.7
1,525,739
All 23 candidates in 2024 · 21 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic58.4%891,227
Donald J TrumpRepublican38.2%582,994
Jill Ellen SteinIndependent1.0%15,491
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent1.0%14,921
OtherAll other candidates0.7%10,461
Chase OliverLibertarian0.6%9,105
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%597
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%465
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%415
Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent0.0%20
Joseph KishoreIndependent0.0%11
Lester H Waller Jr.Independent0.0%5
Benjamin L SchwalbIndependent0.0%4
Douglas JenkinsIndependent0.0%4
Shondra IrvingIndependent0.0%4
Brian Larry KienitzIndependent0.0%3
John ChengIndependent0.0%3
Carol AsherIndependent0.0%2
President R BoddieIndependent0.0%2
Susan Maude BuchserIndependent0.0%2
Michael YostIndependent0.0%1
Richard MayersIndependent0.0%1
William P StoddenIndependent0.0%1
D
60.3%Biden916,480
37.1%Trump563,542
2.7%
D+23.2
D+7.8
D+18.8
1,520,960
D
55.3%Clinton764,605
39.9%Trump551,473
4.7%
D+15.4
R+0.5
D+13.3
1,381,451
D
56.7%Obama781,229
40.8%Romney562,277
2.4%
D+15.9
D+1.0
D+12.1
1,376,628
D
56.5%Obama762,482
41.6%McCain561,581
1.9%
D+14.9
D+10.8
D+7.6
1,349,918
D
51.4%Kerry632,941
47.3%Bush582,705
1.3%
D+4.1
R+5.7
D+6.5
1,231,569
D
53.2%Gore554,852
43.4%Bush452,598
3.4%
D+9.8
R+1.3
D+9.3
1,043,283
D
51.3%Clinton471,134
40.2%Dole369,299
8.4%
D+11.1
R+0.9
D+2.6
917,801
D
48.1%Clinton510,711
36.2%Bush383,606
15.7%
D+12.0
D+16.1
D+6.4
1,060,988
R
47.6%Dukakis434,978
51.7%Bush472,999
0.7%
R+4.2
D+2.1
D+3.6
914,518
R
46.6%Mondale425,899
52.9%Reagan483,169
0.5%
R+6.3
R+15.4
D+12.0
914,037
D
50.6%Carter436,679
41.4%Reagan357,616
8.0%
D+9.2
D+2.4
D+18.9
863,542
D
53.4%Carter424,162
46.6%Ford370,673
0.0%
D+6.7
D+31.7
D+4.7
794,835
R
36.8%McGovern273,268
61.7%Nixon458,463
1.5%
R+24.9
R+29.9
R+1.8
743,091
D
45.6%Humphrey317,988
40.7%Nixon283,595
13.7%
D+4.9
R+29.1
D+5.6
697,165
D
67.0%Johnson450,436
33.0%Goldwater221,499
0.0%
D+34.1
D+23.6
D+11.5
671,985
D
55.2%Kennedy362,792
44.8%Nixon294,144
0.0%
D+10.4
D+32.3
D+10.3
656,938
R
39.1%Stevenson234,763
60.9%Eisenhower366,338
0.0%
R+21.9
R+13.9
R+6.5
601,101
R
45.5%Stevenson274,024
53.5%Eisenhower322,426
1.0%
R+8.0
R+9.6
D+2.7
602,327
D
49.5%Truman201,937
48.0%Dewey195,706
2.5%
D+1.5
R+7.0
R+3.0
407,979
D
54.3%Roosevelt227,470
45.7%Dewey191,753
0.0%
D+8.5
R+11.9
D+1.0
419,223
D
59.7%Roosevelt277,409
39.3%Willkie182,583
1.0%
D+20.4
R+9.2
D+10.5
464,508
D
64.5%Roosevelt285,987
34.9%Landon154,681
0.6%
D+29.6
R+0.3
D+5.4
443,379
D
63.6%Roosevelt229,631
33.7%Hoover121,616
2.7%
D+29.9
D+39.4
D+12.1
361,017
R
45.0%Smith170,135
54.4%Hoover206,044
0.6%
R+9.5
R+6.9
D+8.0
378,494
R
40.7%Davis98,653
43.3%Coolidge104,968
16.1%
R+2.6
D+11.4
D+22.6
242,657
R
41.6%Cox128,133
55.6%Harding171,133
2.9%
R+14.0
R+24.3
D+12.2
308,061
D
54.1%Wilson99,661
43.8%Hughes80,686
2.1%
D+10.3
R+70.9
D+7.2
184,300
D
102.3%Wilson167,164
21.1%Taft34,474
0.0%
D+81.2
—
D+61.7
163,330
—
3860.8%Bryan156,940
2023.8%Taft82,266
0.0%
No data
—
—
4,065
—
5409.8%Parker182,363
2202.4%Roosevelt74,243
0.0%
No data
—
—
3,371
—
7451.9%Bryan85,473
8103.6%McKinley92,948
0.0%
No data
—
—
1,147
R
41.0%Bryan71,345
55.3%McKinley96,280
3.6%
R+14.3
R+28.3
R+8.3
173,974
D
55.6%Cleveland81,286
41.7%Harrison60,900
2.7%
D+14.0
—
D+12.3
146,075
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+21.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+20.2
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.6 points.
Domestic migration in Baltimore in Baltimore: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+27
2012
+867
2013
−2,871
2014
−6,081
2015
−9,016
2016
−12,246
2017
−10,168
2018
−8,846
2019
−10,422
2021
−5,955
2022
−16,145
2023
−13,963
2024
−7,379
2025
−4,538
Baltimore's media market mixes the city's dense Democratic precincts with competitive suburban Baltimore and Harford County corridors, making aggregate vote share a poor guide to the competitive margins that actually shift statewide outcomes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 24.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.2 points.
A population of 3,045,328, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,359 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington, DC (Hagerstown) and Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville).
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In 2024, Baltimore, Maryland voted Democratic by 20.2 points (D+20.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,525,739 votes cast, 891,227 went Democratic and 582,994 went Republican.
When did Baltimore, Maryland last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Baltimore, Maryland voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Baltimore, Maryland?
Baltimore, Maryland has a population of 3,045,328 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Baltimore, Maryland?
Median household income in Baltimore, Maryland is $102,359 — above the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Baltimore, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Baltimore, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
