Central Massachusetts's swing-county anchor with a college-dense core
Worcester metro straddles the gap between Boston's Democratic strongholds and rural central Massachusetts, with a large Latino population and a cluster of colleges that together keep county-level margins closer than the state average.
| Group | Worcester, MA | National |
|---|---|---|
▶White (Non-Hispanic)(13) | 79.4% | 57.4% |
▶Hispanic / Latino(19) | 9.9% | 19.3% |
▶Black / African American(14) | 4.1% | 12.2% |
▶Asian(6) | 4.1% | 6.0% |
Multiracial / Other | 2.3% | 4.0% |
▶Middle Eastern / North African(11) | 1.7% | 0.9% |
▶Native American / Alaska Native(1) | 0.2% | 0.9% |
Catholic-Evangelical edge: +57.5pp (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32.1% | 72.1% | — | — | |
| 4.5% | 10.2% | — | — | |
| 3.4% | 7.7% | — | — | |
| 3.2% | 7.1% | — | — | |
| 1.1% | 2.5% | — | — | |
LDS (Mormon) | 0.3% | 0.7% | — | — |
| 0.1% | 0.3% | — | — | |
Non-religiousPopulation | 55.5% | — | — | — |
Who lives in the Worcester, MA metro area? 3,228,066 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+10.0 | D+3.9 | 6.1pp |