† 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
22 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
GroupRaleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)United States
English12.1%9.5%
German8.5%12.5%
Irish8.0%9.4%
American6.8%5.3%
Italian3.6%4.8%
Scottish2.2%1.3%
Polish1.3%2.2%
French1.2%1.6%
African American†22.5%9.9%
African0.6%0.5%
Jamaican0.3%0.4%
Nigerian0.3%0.2%
Haitian0.2%0.3%
Mexican6.1%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.6%1.8%
Honduran0.8%0.3%
Salvadoran0.7%0.7%
Guatemalan0.5%0.5%
Cuban0.4%0.7%
Colombian0.4%0.4%
Dominican0.4%0.7%
Asian Indian2.0%1.4%
Chinese0.7%1.3%
Filipino0.3%0.9%
Vietnamese0.3%0.6%
Korean0.3%0.4%
Lumbee0.2%—
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
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
United States
Median age
37.8
39.1
Age 18–24
9.4%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
United States
Median household income
$83,280
$84,427
Poverty rate
12.3%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
41.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
15.7%
22.3%
Spanish
9.5%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.6%
2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.1%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
United States
Catholic
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
23.4%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
51.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.8%
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.
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+13.7%
1896
+9.3%
1900
+12.3%
1904
+34.0%
1908
+15.9%
1912
+54.8%
1916
+28.3%
1920
+25.8%
1924
+33.5%
1928
+6.2%
1932
+60.1%
1936
+66.4%
1940
+64.4%
1944
+53.7%
1948
+51.1%
1952
+31.1%
1956
+26.4%
1960
+24.9%
1964
+19.2%
1968
+0.8%
1972
−36.7%
1976
+11.9%
1980
+4.4%
1984
−14.7%
1988
−7.4%
1992
+6.3%
1996
+3.2%
2000
−2.4%
2004
−0.8%
2008
+13.6%
2012
+12.1%
2016
+14.6%
2020
+16.6%
2024
+14.7%
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
56.5%Harris1,008,847
41.8%Trump747,014
1.7%
D+14.7
R+1.9
D+16.1
1,785,331
D
57.5%Biden999,009
40.9%Trump711,221
1.6%
D+16.6
D+1.9
D+12.1
1,737,862
D
55.2%Clinton823,932
40.6%Trump605,805
4.2%
D+14.6
D+2.5
D+12.5
1,492,003
D
55.4%Obama786,771
43.3%Romney614,913
1.2%
D+12.1
R+1.5
D+8.3
1,418,884
D
56.4%Obama754,615
42.8%McCain572,757
0.8%
D+13.6
D+14.4
D+6.3
1,338,366
R
49.4%Kerry524,659
50.2%Bush533,317
0.4%
R+0.8
D+1.5
D+1.6
1,062,222
R
48.5%Gore406,920
50.8%Bush426,768
0.7%
R+2.4
R+5.5
R+2.9
839,600
D
48.6%Clinton356,554
45.5%Dole333,328
5.9%
D+3.2
R+3.1
R+5.4
733,025
D
46.6%Clinton337,302
40.3%Bush291,733
13.1%
D+6.3
D+13.7
D+0.7
723,597
R
46.1%Dukakis261,156
53.5%Bush302,977
0.4%
R+7.4
D+7.4
D+0.3
566,527
R
42.5%Mondale244,999
57.3%Reagan330,002
0.2%
R+14.7
R+19.2
D+3.5
576,309
D
50.0%Carter232,953
45.5%Reagan212,392
4.5%
D+4.4
R+7.5
D+14.1
466,301
D
55.7%Carter226,515
43.7%Ford177,917
0.6%
D+11.9
D+48.7
D+9.9
406,834
R
30.9%McGovern119,062
67.6%Nixon260,561
1.4%
R+36.7
R+37.5
R+13.6
385,173
O
32.1%Humphrey122,879
31.3%Nixon119,810
36.6%
Wallace +4.5
R+18.4
D+1.5
382,972
D
59.6%Johnson188,170
40.4%Goldwater127,564
0.0%
D+19.2
R+5.7
R+3.4
315,734
D
62.4%Kennedy175,013
37.5%Nixon105,245
0.0%
D+24.9
R+1.5
D+24.7
280,323
D
63.0%Stevenson152,470
36.6%Eisenhower88,586
0.4%
D+26.4
R+4.7
D+41.8
241,988
D
65.5%Stevenson165,758
34.5%Eisenhower87,158
0.0%
D+31.1
R+20.0
D+41.8
252,954
D
71.8%Truman121,660
20.7%Dewey35,095
7.5%
D+51.1
R+2.6
D+46.6
169,376
D
76.9%Roosevelt125,456
23.1%Dewey37,773
0.0%
D+53.7
R+10.7
D+46.2
163,229
D
82.2%Roosevelt138,547
17.8%Willkie30,005
0.0%
D+64.4
R+2.0
D+54.4
168,555
D
83.2%Roosevelt143,646
16.8%Landon28,988
0.0%
D+66.4
D+6.4
D+42.2
172,636
D
79.5%Roosevelt116,008
19.5%Hoover28,419
1.0%
D+60.1
D+53.9
D+42.3
145,852
D
53.1%Smith71,769
46.9%Hoover63,419
0.0%
D+6.2
R+27.3
D+23.6
135,188
D
65.9%Davis62,996
32.5%Coolidge31,003
1.6%
D+33.5
D+7.7
D+58.7
95,524
D
62.9%Cox71,773
37.1%Harding42,321
0.0%
D+25.8
R+2.4
D+52.0
114,101
D
64.0%Wilson42,044
35.8%Hughes23,495
0.2%
D+28.3
R+26.5
D+25.1
65,643
D
64.0%Wilson36,075
9.3%Taft5,227
26.7%
D+54.8
D+38.9
D+35.2
56,332
D
57.9%Bryan34,329
42.0%Taft24,905
0.1%
D+15.9
R+18.1
D+25.4
59,308
D
66.7%Parker31,904
32.7%Roosevelt15,656
0.6%
D+34.0
D+21.7
D+53.6
47,828
D
55.9%Bryan45,791
43.5%McKinley35,699
0.6%
D+12.3
D+3.0
D+19.9
81,979
D
54.5%Bryan50,056
45.1%McKinley41,466
0.4%
D+9.3
R+4.4
D+15.4
91,894
D
43.9%Cleveland34,940
30.2%Harrison24,019
25.9%
D+13.7
—
D+12.1
79,528
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2012D+21.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+14.7
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 6.9 points more Democratic.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
1,769,603
897,972
482,396
387,874
1,361
2012 (partial)
2,013,392
961,969
527,178
517,981
6,264
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+25,903 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +283,043 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+17,323
2012
+9,050
2013
+13,551
2014
+10,449
2015
+11,981
2016
+22,841
2017
+14,996
2018
+24,468
2019
+22,506
2021
+40,794
2022
+23,178
2023
+25,820
2024
+20,183
2025
+25,903
Home to Fort Liberty and three major research universities, this market blends a highly educated urban core with one of the country's largest active-duty military populations, producing consistently competitive margins in federal and statewide races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 36.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 3,393,797, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,280 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Richmond-Petersburg and Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News.
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How did Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina voted Democratic by 14.7 points (D+14.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,785,331 votes cast, 1,008,847 went Democratic and 747,014 went Republican.
When did Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina?
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina has a population of 3,393,797 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina?
Median household income in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina is $83,280 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville), North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
