† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
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
GroupMonterey-SalinasCaliforniaUnited States
Mexican47.4%32.3%11.3%
Salvadoran1.3%2.0%0.7%
Spaniard0.7%0.3%—
Puerto Rican0.6%0.6%1.8%
Spanish0.5%0.3%—
Cuban0.2%—0.7%
Guatemalan0.2%1.3%0.5%
Argentinean0.2%——
English7.9%6.3%9.5%
German7.7%6.8%12.5%
Irish7.0%5.9%9.4%
Italian4.6%3.4%4.8%
American1.7%2.8%5.3%
French1.6%1.3%1.6%
Scottish1.5%0.9%1.3%
Portuguese0.7%——
Filipino2.0%3.3%0.9%
Chinese1.0%3.9%1.3%
Asian Indian0.6%2.3%1.4%
Japanese0.5%0.6%0.2%
Korean0.3%1.2%0.4%
Vietnamese0.2%1.7%0.6%
African American†0.9%4.4%9.9%
Aztec0.3%0.3%—
Samoan0.1%——
Tongan0.1%——
Chamorro0.1%——
Fijian0.1%——
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
Monterey-Salinas
California
United States
Median age
37
37.9
39.1
Age 18–24
11.3%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.1%
15.6%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Monterey-Salinas
California
United States
Median household income
$103,501
$99,122
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.8%
12.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
33.2%
36.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Monterey-Salinas
California
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
47.4%
44.4%
22.3%
Spanish
40.9%
28.4%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.3%
3.4%
2.0%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)
1.0%
2.1%
0.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Monterey-Salinas
California
United States
Catholic
40.7%
26.2%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.0%
9.0%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
46.0%
55.2%
51.5%
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.
Monterey-Salinas, California
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−2.9%
1896
+4.9%
1900
−6.4%
1904
−27.7%
1908
−20.3%
1912
+44.1%
1916
+3.9%
1920
−41.1%
1924
−49.3%
1928
−30.8%
1932
+17.4%
1936
+16.2%
1940
+4.1%
1944
+0.2%
1948
−11.8%
1952
−28.8%
1956
−22.5%
1960
−14.9%
1964
+21.2%
1968
−8.5%
1972
−11.5%
1976
+1.0%
1980
−13.7%
1984
−4.9%
1988
+11.0%
1992
+25.0%
1996
+22.2%
2000
+25.9%
2004
+32.9%
2008
+46.0%
2012
+44.2%
2016
+46.1%
2020
+47.9%
2024
+39.0%
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
67.8%Harris209,237
28.8%Trump88,906
1.4%Kennedy4,435 +4
D+39.0
R+8.9
D+40.5
308,502
All 7 candidates in 2024 · 5 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic67.8%209,237
Donald J TrumpRepublican28.8%88,906
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent1.4%4,435
Jill SteinIndependent1.0%3,130
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.5%1,410
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%1,373
OtherAll other candidates0.0%11
D
72.6%Biden245,827
24.8%Trump83,826
2.6%
D+47.9
D+1.8
D+43.4
338,402
D
68.9%Clinton196,858
22.8%Trump65,174
8.2%
D+46.1
D+1.9
D+44.0
285,542
D
70.3%Obama185,001
26.2%Romney68,780
3.5%
D+44.2
R+1.8
D+40.3
262,984
D
71.8%Obama199,115
25.8%McCain71,466
2.4%
D+46.0
D+13.1
D+38.8
277,307
D
65.6%Kerry174,194
32.7%Bush86,890
1.6%
D+32.9
D+6.9
D+35.3
265,462
D
59.1%Gore143,367
33.1%Bush80,403
7.8%
D+25.9
D+3.8
D+25.4
242,715
D
54.5%Clinton122,980
32.3%Dole72,944
13.1%
D+22.2
R+2.8
D+13.7
225,526
D
51.9%Clinton126,398
26.9%Bush65,489
21.2%
D+25.0
D+14.1
D+19.5
243,420
D
54.7%Dukakis116,690
43.8%Bush93,328
1.5%
D+11.0
D+15.8
D+18.7
213,300
R
46.9%Mondale93,378
51.8%Reagan103,057
1.3%
R+4.9
D+8.8
D+13.4
198,997
R
35.6%Carter64,181
49.3%Reagan88,853
15.1%
R+13.7
R+14.7
R+4.0
180,200
D
48.3%Carter77,743
47.4%Ford76,166
4.3%
D+1.0
D+12.5
R+1.1
160,802
R
42.4%McGovern67,463
53.9%Nixon85,764
3.7%
R+11.5
R+3.0
D+11.6
159,048
R
41.8%Humphrey51,562
50.3%Nixon61,996
7.9%
R+8.5
R+29.6
R+7.8
123,297
D
60.5%Johnson70,586
39.3%Goldwater45,859
0.2%
D+21.2
D+36.1
R+1.4
116,725
R
42.3%Kennedy45,340
57.3%Nixon61,342
0.4%
R+14.9
D+7.5
R+15.1
107,062
R
38.6%Stevenson34,707
61.1%Eisenhower54,875
0.3%
R+22.5
D+6.3
R+7.1
89,812
R
35.2%Stevenson30,382
64.0%Eisenhower55,199
0.7%
R+28.8
R+17.0
R+18.0
86,227
R
42.1%Truman27,662
53.9%Dewey35,403
4.1%
R+11.8
R+12.0
R+16.3
65,740
D
49.8%Roosevelt25,697
49.6%Dewey25,601
0.6%
D+0.2
R+3.9
R+7.3
51,632
D
51.4%Roosevelt27,882
47.4%Willkie25,670
1.2%
D+4.1
R+12.1
R+5.9
54,202
D
57.4%Roosevelt24,158
41.2%Landon17,340
1.5%
D+16.2
R+1.2
R+8.1
42,117
D
56.5%Roosevelt19,471
39.1%Hoover13,474
4.5%
D+17.4
D+48.2
R+0.4
34,484
R
34.2%Smith9,192
65.0%Hoover17,474
0.8%
R+30.8
D+18.5
R+13.4
26,875
R
10.6%Davis2,048
59.9%Coolidge11,589
29.5%
R+49.3
R+8.2
R+24.1
19,342
R
25.6%Cox4,628
66.6%Harding12,067
7.8%
R+41.1
R+45.0
R+14.9
18,106
D
48.6%Wilson10,077
44.7%Hughes9,267
6.7%
D+3.9
R+40.2
D+0.8
20,737
O
44.1%Wilson7,520
0.0%Taft0
55.9%
Roosevelt +11.8
D+64.4
D+24.5
17,057
R
33.8%Bryan3,943
54.1%Taft6,309
12.1%
R+20.3
D+7.4
R+10.7
11,659
R
31.3%Parker3,165
59.1%Roosevelt5,967
9.6%
R+27.7
R+21.3
R+8.1
10,104
R
44.4%Bryan4,246
50.9%McKinley4,861
4.7%
R+6.4
R+11.4
D+1.1
9,555
D
51.2%Bryan5,065
46.2%McKinley4,576
2.6%
D+4.9
D+7.9
D+11.0
9,897
R
39.2%Cleveland3,877
42.2%Harrison4,168
18.6%
R+2.9
—
R+4.6
9,881
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+35.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+39.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 3.6 points more Republican.
418,941 registered voters · 2024 · up from 413,864 in 2022
Domestic migration in Monterey-Salinas in Monterey-Salinas: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−430
2012
−124
2013
−1,355
2014
−2,110
2015
−1,878
2016
−1,254
2017
−3,313
2018
−4,485
2019
−3,263
2021
−11,890
2022
−3,794
2023
−9,644
2024
−8,353
2025
−4,718
The Monterey-Salinas market spans a striking economic divide — affluent coastal tourism and tech-adjacent Monterey contrasts with the heavily Latino, farmworker-dependent Salinas Valley, producing notably split voting patterns across its ZIP codes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 49.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.0 points.
A population of 769,829, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,501 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo and Chicago.
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How did Monterey-Salinas, California vote in 2024?
In 2024, Monterey-Salinas, California voted Democratic by 39.0 points (D+39.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 308,502 votes cast, 209,237 went Democratic and 88,906 went Republican.
When did Monterey-Salinas, California last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Monterey-Salinas, California voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Monterey-Salinas, California?
Monterey-Salinas, California has a population of 769,829 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Monterey-Salinas, California?
Median household income in Monterey-Salinas, California is $103,501 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Monterey-Salinas, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Monterey-Salinas, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
