2024 population: 578,512
(
13,443 from 2020)
Land area: 5405.1 square miles
Population density: 107.0 persons per square mile
| 2024 Census data | |||
| White: | 260,574 | 45.04% | 2.9% |
| Black: | 283,676 | 49.04% | 3.3% |
| Indian: | 740 | 0.13% | 5.0% |
| Asian: | 9,076 | 1.57% | 22.5% |
| 2+ races: | 6,147 | 1.06% | 9.4% |
| Hispanic: | 18,299 | 3.16% | 11.7% |
| Total non-White: | 317,938 | 54.96% | 1.7% |
| 2020-2024 Components | Number | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Births: | 29,145 | 12.3 |
| Deaths: | 28,744 | 12.1 |
| Net Migration: | -18,955 | -8.0 |
| Net Immigration: | 5,132 | 2.2 |
| Change in White population: | -7,831 | -1.3 |
| Change in Non-White pop.: | -5,612 | -0.9 |
| Recent Trends | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Δ Margin | Swing % | ||
| 2024 vs. 2020 | R -1,681 | R +15,480 | R + 5.9% | |
| D -17,161 | ||||
| 2024 vs. 2016 | R +5,411 | R +7,864 | R + 3.2% | |
| D -2,453 | ||||
| 2020 vs. 2016 | R +7,092 | D +7,616 | D + 2.7% | |
| D +14,708 | ||||
| 2024 vs. 2012 | R -1,165 | R +15,277 | R + 5.8% | |
| D -16,442 | ||||
| 2016 vs. 2008 | R -9,517 | R +1,775 | R + 0.5% | |
| D -11,292 | ||||
| How to interpret this table | ||||
| Year | Turnout | Winner | Runner-Up | Other | Total Votes | Diff (US) | PUSV | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 57% | Donald Trump (R) | 125,532 | 49.9% | Kamala Harris (D) | 122,267 | 48.6% | 3,611 [+] | 1.4% | 251,410 | 0 | 0.16% |
| 2020 | 61% | Joe Biden (D) | 139,428 | 51.5% | Donald Trump* (R) | 127,213 | 47.0% | 3,976 [+] | 1.5% | 270,617 | 0 | 0.17% |
| 2016 | 57% | Hillary Clinton (D) | 124,720 | 49.7% | Donald Trump (R) | 120,121 | 47.9% | 6,024 [+] | 2.4% | 250,865 | 2 | 0.18% |
| 2012 | 61% | Barack Obama* (D) | 138,709 | 51.9% | Mitt Romney (R) | 126,697 | 47.4% | 2,081 [+] | 0.8% | 267,487 | 0 | 0.21% |
| 2008 | 63% | Barack Obama (D) | 136,012 | 50.8% | John McCain (R) | 129,638 | 48.5% | 1,830 [+] | 0.7% | 267,480 | 3 | 0.20% |
| 2004 | 55% | George W. Bush* (R) | 125,431 | 55.5% | John Kerry (D) | 98,730 | 43.6% | 2,030 [+] | 0.9% | 226,191 | 5 | 0.18% |
| 2000 | 50% | George W. Bush (R) | 108,933 | 55.3% | Albert Gore, Jr. (D) | 83,771 | 42.5% | 4,459 [+] | 2.3% | 197,163 | 7 | 0.19% |
| 1996 | 47% | Robert Dole (R) | 88,986 | 50.2% | Bill Clinton* (D) | 80,118 | 45.2% | 8,087 [+] | 4.6% | 177,191 | 10 | 0.18% |
| 1992 | 53% | George Bush* (R) | 99,143 | 51.8% | Bill Clinton (D) | 77,557 | 40.5% | 14,789 [+] | 7.7% | 191,489 | 14 | 0.18% |
| 1988 | 53% | George Bush (R) | 106,611 | 58.5% | Michael Dukakis (D) | 73,031 | 40.1% | 2,656 [+] | 1.5% | 182,298 | 5 | 0.20% |
| 1984 | 56% | Ronald Reagan* (R) | 109,810 | 59.1% | Walter Mondale (D) | 74,412 | 40.1% | 1,522 | 0.8% | 185,744 | 0 | 0.20% |
| 1980 | 53% | Ronald Reagan (R) | 87,972 | 52.5% | Jimmy Carter* (D) | 75,500 | 45.1% | 4,081 [+] | 2.4% | 167,553 | 2 | 0.19% |
| 1976 | 53% | Gerald Ford* (R) | 77,240 | 55.9% | Jimmy Carter (D) | 58,461 | 42.3% | 2,529 [+] | 1.8% | 138,230 | 8 | 0.17% |
| 1972 | 48% | Richard Nixon* (R) | 86,991 | 75.2% | George McGovern (D) | 26,197 | 22.6% | 2,499 [+] | 2.2% | 115,687 | 14 | 0.15% |
| 1968 | 59% | George Wallace (AIP) | 63,623 | 56.1% | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 31,217 | 27.5% | 18,545 [+] | 16.4% | 113,385 | -27 | 0.15% |
| 1964 | 38% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 65,026 | 91.0% | Lyndon Johnson* (D) | 6,465 | 9.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 71,491 | 52 | 0.10% |
| 1960 | 27% | Write-ins (I) | 23,647 | 47.9% | Richard Nixon (R) | 15,026 | 30.4% | 10,687 [+] | 21.7% | 49,360 | -19 | 0.07% |
| 1956 | 21% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 14,830 | 40.7% | Write-ins (I) | 12,265 | 33.6% | 9,387 [+] | 25.7% | 36,482 | -32 | 0.06% |
| 1952 | 26% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 22,377 | 51.6% | Dwight Eisenhower (R) | 20,954 | 48.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 43,331 | -7 | 0.07% |
| 1948 | 19% | Strom Thurmond (StsRts) | 27,514 | 92.3% | Harry Truman* (D) | 1,570 | 5.3% | 715 [+] | 2.4% | 29,799 | -43 | 0.06% |
| 1944 | 17% | Franklin Roosevelt* (D) | 23,895 | 94.0% | Thomas Dewey (R) | 1,527 | 6.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 25,422 | -40 | 0.05% |
| 1940 | 16% | Franklin Roosevelt* (D) | 23,147 | 96.6% | Wendell Willkie (R) | 810 | 3.4% | 11 | 0.0% | 23,968 | -41 | 0.05% |
| 1936 | 17% | Franklin Roosevelt* (D) | 21,237 | 97.5% | Alf Landon (R) | 521 | 2.4% | 25 [+] | 0.1% | 21,783 | -34 | 0.05% |
| 1932 | 15% | Franklin Roosevelt (D) | 17,657 | 96.1% | Herbert Hoover* (R) | 650 | 3.5% | 67 [+] | 0.4% | 18,374 | -36 | 0.05% |
| 1928 | 18% | Al Smith (D) | 17,209 | 90.0% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 1,918 | 10.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 19,127 | -48 | 0.05% |
| 1924 | 14% | John Davis (D) | 13,222 | 93.9% | Calvin Coolidge (R) | 680 | 4.8% | 177 [+] | 1.3% | 14,079 | -49 | 0.05% |
| 1920 | 10% | James Cox (D) | 8,318 | 92.5% | Warren Harding (R) | 535 | 6.0% | 136 [+] | 1.5% | 8,989 | -54 | 0.03% |
| 1916 | 10% | Woodrow Wilson* (D) | 8,774 | 96.4% | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 241 | 2.6% | 88 [+] | 1.0% | 9,103 | -43 | 0.05% |
| 1912 | 8% | Woodrow Wilson (D) | 7,109 | 93.3% | Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) | 254 | 3.3% | 258 [+] | 3.4% | 7,621 | -22 | 0.05% |
| 1908 | 8% | William J. Bryan (D) | 7,194 | 94.2% | William Taft (R) | 264 | 3.5% | 180 [+] | 2.4% | 7,638 | -48 | 0.05% |
| 1904 | 8% | Alton Parker (D) | 6,911 | 92.9% | Write-ins (I) | 289 | 3.9% | 238 [+] | 3.2% | 7,438 | -53 | 0.05% |
| 1900 | 8% | William J. Bryan (D) | 6,459 | 92.4% | William McKinley* (R) | 394 | 5.6% | 141 [+] | 2.0% | 6,994 | -46 | 0.05% |