COUNTY PROFILE
Wake 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
Wake County population density
Voter Turnout
Excerpts
Population history and projections are available for the entirety of Wake County, but none are available that focus only the NC SD 18 area. For this reason, the Team Up NC demographic profile for the northern Wake County area includes population history and projections for all of Wake County.
This chart shows the total population of Wake County from 1990 to 2060.
The colored areas represent different racial and ethnic demographic groups.
The total population of Wake County has increased steadily three decades and is projected to continue to grow, as shown in this graph.
The next chart shows population by race and ethnic groups individually instead of additively.
This chart makes it easier to see the trends of the different racial and ethnic groups in Wake County over time and to compare them.
Through 1980, population estimates were made only for White and Black residents. Very few members of other groups lived in Wake County. In 1990, the Census reported less than 6,000 Hispanic people living and less than 1,400 people in other racial and ethnic groups living in the county.
The population of all racial and ethnic groups has been growing steadily and is expected to continue to grow.
This map shows the partisan lean of North Wake 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.
In the end, it’s the elections that matter, and this table summarizes the results of Key Races in northern Wake County since 2018.
The numbers in the 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. Races that were decided by less than 1% of the vote are underlined and shown in bold in the table.
While Republicans were the Key Races consistently in 2018, the area has shifted toward Democrats over the past three election cycles. First in 2020, Democrats won four of the races while Republicans won two. Two of the races were close. In 2022, Democrats won three of the four races, and three of the four races were close. By 2024, Democrats won all of the races, and none of them were close.
This chart shows the Democratic Lean and 2024 voter turnout by precinct in the 30 precincts in NC SD 18.
The Democratic Lean is generally higher in precincts where turnout was lower, and vice-versa.
Put another way, if the voters in the ten most Democratic-leaning precincts turned out at the same rate as the least Democratic-leaning precinct, Democrats would have received more than 1,400 more votes!
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