| Kamala Harris ✓Democratic | 80.8% | 533,782 |
|---|---|---|
| Donald TrumpRepublican | 17.2% | 113,921 |
| OtherAll other candidates | 2.0% | 12,930 |
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | +26.8% |
| 1896 | −6.7% |
| 1900 | +8.3% |
| 1904 | +9.4% |
| 1908 | +1.5% |
| 1912 | +29.6% |
| 1916 | +9.9% |
| 1920 | −30.1% |
| 1924 | −1.6% |
| 1928 | +25.1% |
| 1932 | +39.1% |
| 1936 | +48.2% |
| 1940 | +23.9% |
| 1944 | +32.4% |
| 1948 | +18.8% |
| 1952 | +19.1% |
| 1956 | +11.5% |
| 1960 | +31.1% |
| 1964 | +61.3% |
| 1968 | +44.5% |
| 1972 | +32.9% |
| 1976 | +47.7% |
| 1980 | +36.2% |
| 1984 | +44.7% |
| 1988 | +53.3% |
| 1992 | +62.3% |
| 1996 | +66.2% |
| 2000 | +65.2% |
| 2004 | +65.3% |
| 2008 | +72.2% |
| 2012 | +68.8% |
| 2016 | +76.9% |
| 2020 | +74.5% |
| 2024 | +63.6% |
Demographics
Demographic Profile
Key indicators compared across containing geographies
| Indicator | New York CountyCounty | New YorkState | United StatesNation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Race & Ethnicity | |||
| White | 48.3% | 55.2% | 61.0% |
| Black | 13.7% | 14.4% | 12.2% |
| Asian | 12.4% | 9.1% | 6.0% |
| Two or more races | 12.6% | 10.3% | 12.6% |
| Other race | 13.0% | 11.1% | 8.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 24.4% | 19.8% | 19.3% |
| Income & Age | |||
| Median household income | $103,931 | $85,974 | $84,427 |
| Poverty rate | 16.5% | 14.0% | 12.5% |
| Median age | 38.9 | 39.9 | 39.1 |
| Age 18–24 | 8.6% | 9.0% | 9.2% |
| Age 65 and older | 18.0% | 18.0% | 17.2% |
| Education & Language | |||
| Bachelor's degree or higher (25+) | 64.2% | 40.0% | 35.6% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 36.9% | 30.9% | 22.3% |
| Spanish | 19.2% | 14.8% | 13.6% |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese) | 5.1% | 3.2% | 1.1% |
| Other Indo-European | 3.6% | 4.0% | 2.0% |
| French (incl. Cajun & Haitian) | 2.4% | 1.5% | 0.7% |
| Ancestry | |||
| Largest ancestry | Dominican 10.1% | Italian 10.9% | German 12.5% |
| 2nd-largest ancestry | Irish 7.1% | Irish 10.5% | Mexican 11.3% |
| 3rd-largest ancestry | Italian 6.1% | German 8.6% | English 9.5% |
| Religion | |||
| Catholic | 21.3% | 30.8% | 18.6% |
| Evangelical Protestant | 5.0% | 5.1% | 16.5% |
| Unaffiliated or unclaimed | 47.5% | 48.7% | 51.5% |
| Jewish | 6.1% | 3.8% | 0.6% |
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.
New York County—coterminous with Manhattan—delivers presidential margins exceeding 60 points for Democrats, driven by one of the highest urban population densities in the country and a highly educated, renter-majority electorate.
New York County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of 76.9 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved 10.9 points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $103,931, and a population of 1,629,477. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of District of Columbia and Jefferson County.
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