COUNTY PROFILE
Nash County
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Team Up NC Analysis
Full Report Contents
Demography & Geography
History and projections
Race and ethnicity
City and Towns
Population density
Registered Voters
Partisan Lean
2024 election partisan lean by precinct
Nash County population density
Voter Turnout
Excerpts
This chart shows the total population from 1990 to 2060. The colored areas represent different racial and ethnic demographic groups, which are stacked and therefore add up to the total.
The total population of Nash County has been 90-100,000 residents for the past 15 years. It is projected to grow slightly until 2030, but then level off for the next 30 years..
The race and ethnicity of the population has been shifting.
The next chart shows population by race and ethnic groups individually instead of additively.
This chart isn’t additive. Instead, the lines representing racial and ethnic groups are on top of one another, which makes it easier to see the trends over time and to compare them.
Through 1990, population estimates were made only for White and Black residents. The explanation appears to be that very few members of other racial or ethnic groups lived in Nash County. In 1990, the Census reported just over 600 Hispanic people living and less than 300 people in other racial and ethnic groups living in the county.
The population of non-Hispanic White residents peaked in 2000.
The number of non-Hispanic African American residents in Nash County continues to increase, but the rate of increase has slowed.
The Hispanic population is projected to continue to grow, as does that of other non-Hispanic groups, which include Asian, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and multi-racial people.
Still, we note that for many decades, both White and African American populations are projected to be more than double that of other racial and ethnic groups.
This map shows the partisan lean of Nash County based on the 2024 presidential election where the intensity of blue or red indicates the portion of voters who supported the Democrat or Republican candidate, respectively.
For the most part, the areas around Rocky Mount and in the north lean left and the areas to the south lean right, while areas in the middle are, on average, moderate.
In the end, it’s the elections that matter, and Democrats have won 7 out of 22 key races since 2018.
The numbers shown in this table are the margin between the winner and loser of each race, where blue indicates that the Democrat won and red indicates that the Republican won. The intensity of the color is proportionate to the margin.
Note that 3 of the 22 key races since 2018 were decided by less than 1% of the votes cast, as shown in underlined bold type this table.
This chart shows the Democratic Lean and 2024 voter turnout by precinct.
The Democratic Lean is generally higher in precincts where turnout was lower, and vice-versa.
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