Lumberton, NC Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Lumberton, NC

TrumpR+27.6

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	63.4%	29,647
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	35.8%	16,728
OtherAll other candidates	0.8%	395

D+60

R+60

1 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	No data
1880	No data
1884	No data
1888	No data
1892	+28.0%
1896	+17.5%
1900	+48.3%
1904	+39.6%
1908	+35.0%
1912	+72.5%
1916	+33.1%
1920	+47.2%
1924	+85.4%
1928	+26.2%
1932	+81.5%
1936	+86.7%
1940	+81.7%
1944	+73.4%
1948	+65.9%
1952	+38.6%
1956	+58.1%
1960	+52.9%
1964	+58.7%
1968	+19.4%
1972	−21.0%
1976	+61.4%
1980	+42.5%
1984	+8.2%
1988	+26.2%
1992	+38.1%
1996	+33.3%
2000	+20.5%
2004	+5.8%
2008	+13.8%
2012	+17.4%
2016	−4.3%
2020	−18.6%
2024	−27.6%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	35.8%Harris16,728	63.4%Trump29,647	0.8%	−27.6%	46,770
2020	R	40.3%Biden19,020	58.9%Trump27,806	0.8%incl. Jorgensen	−18.6%	47,188
2016	R	46.5%Clinton19,016	50.8%Trump20,762	2.6%incl. Johnson	−4.3%	40,858
2012	D	58.2%Obama24,988	40.8%Romney17,510	1.0%	+17.4%	42,946
2008	D	56.5%Obama23,058	42.7%McCain17,433	0.8%	+13.8%	40,834
2004	D	52.8%Kerry17,868	47.0%Bush15,909	0.3%	+5.8%	33,871
2000	D	60.0%Gore17,834	39.4%Bush11,721	0.6%incl. Nader	+20.5%	29,747
1996	D	62.7%Clinton17,361	29.4%Dole8,146	7.8%incl. Perot	+33.3%	27,671
1992	D	63.6%Clinton19,378	25.5%Bush7,777	10.9%incl. Perot	+38.1%	30,474
1988	D	62.9%Dukakis16,988	36.7%Bush9,908	0.4%	+26.2%	27,000
1984	D	53.9%Mondale15,257	45.8%Reagan12,947	0.3%	+8.2%	28,291
1980	D	70.4%Carter17,618	27.9%Reagan6,982	1.7%incl. Anderson	+42.5%	25,030
1976	D	80.5%Carter20,695	19.1%Ford4,907	0.4%	+61.4%	25,699
1972	R	39.0%McGovern7,391	60.0%Nixon11,362	1.0%	−21.0%	18,941
1968	D	42.9%Humphrey8,248	23.6%Nixon4,526	33.5%incl. Wallace	+19.4%	19,215
1964	D	79.3%Johnson13,796	20.7%Goldwater3,591	0.0%	+58.7%	17,387
1960	D	76.5%Kennedy11,623	23.5%Nixon3,580	0.0%	+52.9%	15,203
1956	D	79.1%Stevenson10,516	20.9%Eisenhower2,785	0.0%	+58.1%	13,301
1952	D	69.3%Stevenson9,311	30.7%Eisenhower4,127	0.0%	+38.6%	13,438
1948	D	77.3%Truman7,056	11.3%Dewey1,036	11.4%incl. Thurmond	+65.9%	9,133
1944	D	86.7%Roosevelt7,278	13.3%Dewey1,118	0.0%	+73.4%	8,396
1940	D	90.9%Roosevelt9,251	9.1%Willkie931	0.0%	+81.7%	10,182
1936	D	93.4%Roosevelt10,280	6.6%Landon732	0.0%	+86.7%	11,012
1932	D	90.5%Roosevelt7,860	9.0%Hoover783	0.5%	+81.5%	8,687
1928	D	63.1%Smith4,730	36.9%Hoover2,767	0.0%	+26.2%	7,497
1924	D	92.5%Davis4,064	7.1%Coolidge314	0.3%incl. La Follette	+85.4%	4,392
1920	D	73.6%Cox6,183	26.4%Harding2,220	0.0%	+47.2%	8,403
1916	D	66.6%Wilson2,894	33.4%Hughes1,453	0.0%	+33.1%	4,347
1912	D	76.9%Wilson2,706	4.4%Taft154	18.8%incl. Roosevelt	+72.5%	3,520
1908	D	67.5%Bryan2,698	32.5%Taft1,300	0.0%	+35.0%	3,998
1904	D	69.7%Parker2,274	30.1%Roosevelt982	0.2%	+39.6%	3,262
1900	D	74.1%Bryan3,280	25.9%McKinley1,144	0.0%	+48.3%	4,424
1896	D	58.7%Bryan3,457	41.2%McKinley2,429	0.1%	+17.5%	5,889
1892	D	54.1%Cleveland2,312	26.2%Harrison1,117	19.7%incl. Weaver	+28.0%	4,271
1888	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1884	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1880	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1876	—	—	—	—	No data	—

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	Lumberton, NCMetro area	North CarolinaState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	24.2%	61.8%	61.0%
Black	23.4%	20.3%	12.2%
Asian	0.9%	3.3%	6.0%
Two or more races	4.6%	8.2%	12.6%
Other race	47.0%	6.4%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	10.9%	11.3%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$41,978	$72,388	$84,427
Poverty rate	27.2%	13.1%	12.5%
Median age	36.4	39.5	39.1
Age 18–24	10.1%	9.5%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.1%	17.2%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	14.7%	35.8%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	10.3%	13.5%	22.3%
Spanish	8.7%	8.7%	13.6%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Lumbee 32.5%	English 12.7%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	American 17.2%	German 9.4%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	Mexican 7.1%	Irish 8.4%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	1.9%	8.9%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	32.5%	26.5%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	51.7%	48.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	7.3%	9.1%	5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Tribal grouping · detailed group · ACS B02020 · B02016

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Lumbee

32.5%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

American

17.2%

English

3.6%

Irish

1.9%

German

1.4%

Scottish

0.7%

Scotch-Irish

0.7%

Italian

0.4%

Polish

0.3%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.

African

0.3%

Haitian

0.3%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Mexican

7.1%

Guatemalan

1.3%

Puerto Rican

0.8%

Honduran

0.3%

Cuban

0.2%

Salvadoran

0.2%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

Below 1% of the population here; subgroup estimates are within the survey's margin of error.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 36.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

0.8%

2.1%

75–84

3.0%

4.4%

65–74

5.4%

5.7%

55–64

6.4%

5.8%

45–54

6.3%

5.3%

35–44

6.0%

6.1%

25–34

6.4%

5.1%

18–24

5.0%

9.5%

5–17

9.2%

3.6%

3.5%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$41,978

Lumberton, NC$41,978

North Carolina$72,388

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

27.2%

Children face higher poverty than working-age adults.

Children under 1836.6%

Working age (18–64)24.0%

Seniors (65+)22.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

89.7%

speak English only

Spanish8.7%

Other Indo-European0.4%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.3%

Arabic0.3%

German or other West Germanic0.1%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.1%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.1%

Other languages0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Evangelical Protestant

32.5%

Mainline Protestant

7.3%

Black Protestant

4.2%

Catholic

1.9%

Latter-day Saints

1.0%

Other Christian

0.9%

Other faiths

0.4%

Muslim

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted51.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Lumberton anchors one of the most demographically distinctive metros in the South, where the Lumbee Tribe constitutes a substantial share of the electorate and no single racial group commands a majority.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 27.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 9.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.6 points.

A population of 116,902, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $41,978 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Lumberton, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?

In 2024, Lumberton, NC, North Carolina voted Republican by 27.6 points (R+27.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 46,770 votes cast, 16,728 went Democratic and 29,647 went Republican.

What is Lumberton, NC, North Carolina's political typology?

Akashic places Lumberton, NC, North Carolina in the "Florida Surge" typology. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the metro has voted Democratic 30 times, Republican 4 times, and other 0 times.

When did Lumberton, NC, North Carolina last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Lumberton, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic was 2012.

How many people live in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?

Lumberton, NC, North Carolina has a population of 116,902 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?

Median household income in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina is $41,978 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.

What is the political history of Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 30 went Democratic and 4 went Republican. The metro's typology — "Florida Surge" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.

Lumberton, NC moved 9.0 points toward the Republican candidate between 2020 and 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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