A college-anchored mid-size market where margins swing on turnout
Home to UW–Stevens Point, this Portage County metro sits in Wisconsin's competitive central corridor, where a sizable student and paper-industry workforce population has historically kept countywide margins within single digits.
| Group | Local | National |
|---|---|---|
▶White (Non-Hispanic)(13) | 92.3% | 57.4% |
▶Hispanic / Latino(13) | 2.6% | 19.3% |
▶Asian(6) | 2.6% | 6.0% |
Multiracial / Other | 1.5% | 4.0% |
▶Black / African American(6) | 0.5% | 12.2% |
▶Native American / Alaska Native(1) | 0.4% | 0.9% |
▶Middle Eastern / North African(4) | 0.2% | 0.9% |
Catholic-Evangelical edge: +33.0pp (vs national 4.5pp). A strongly Catholic-leaning religious profile, which nationally correlates with Democratic-leaning urban and suburban communities.
| Tradition | % Pop | % Adherents | US Pop | US Adherents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27.4% | 59.3% | — | — | |
| 10.1% | 21.8% | — | — | |
| 7.3% | 15.9% | — | — | |
| 1.4% | 3.1% | — | — | |
LDS (Mormon) | 0.6% | 1.3% | — | — |
Non-religiousPopulation | 53.8% | — | — | — |
Who lives in the Stevens Point-Plover, WI metro area? 276,999 residents across 4 counties.
Scale, voting-age share, and this geography's footprint inside the national electorate.
Income, attainment, and ownership indicators that often shape coalition structure and turnout behavior.
Age structure, language use, and nativity signals that explain how this geography differs from state and nation.
| Offices | Margin A | Margin B | Split |
|---|---|---|---|
| President vs Senate | D+1.2 | D+4.4 | 3.2pp |