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    U.S. Voter Turnout in the 2024 Presidential Election by Family Income [OC]
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    U.S. Voter Turnout in the 2024 Presidential Election by Family Income [OC]

    Using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey 2024 Voting Supplement microdata, I visualized self-reported voting by family income. Bars show counts and percentages for “voted,” “did not vote,” and “no response,” among the citizen voting-age population.

    Key takeaway: turnout increases steadily with income, from 48% in households under $25k to 76% at $150k+, compared with 65% overall.

    Source: CPS 2024 Voting Supplement
    Tool: Tableau
    If you are interested in this type of data, there is an interactive version the visualization.

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    2. LavenderBlueProf on

      id be curious how that changes if voting was a day off

      a lot of low income jobs cant take a teus off

    3. Ok-Quiet-4212 on

      That’s really a shame that as income decreases, likelihood to vote decreases. Are there ways to boost turnout in lower income thresholds?

    4. LithiumH on

      Could this data be stratified against confounds. For example, it would be interesting to see if people of the same education level but making different salaries make the same or different decisions on voting. Or people of the same age but different income etc. The story of “poor people can’t vote” definitely has merit but need to adjust against other factors.

      Nice charts!

    5. NepheliLouxWarrior on

      Voting needs to be a paid holiday and I’m fucking sick of pretending it shouldn’t. Also yes mail-in voting needs to be normalized. 

    7. atb0rg on

      $150k household income is lower middle class or lower class depending on family size. Would be interesting to see the brackets continue upward

      Edit: should have specified regionally. I live in SF Bay area

    8. deadmazebot on

      I did skip over that you put it in your comment, and image says in top, this is “Family Income”.

      I was trying to gauge if family, and so multiple people income, which 1 person bringing in 100+, that one is stay at home, shifting the voting pattern. While a family with a total lower, would struggle to arrange the time with kids and both couples or parents working.

      and the source allows to look, doing Household Size, voted goes from 71% (61m) with 2 person household down to 63% with 3 (27.5m) and 4 (23.9m) people. Interesting.

      It would be interesting the cross over of house holds with 3+ people and family income

    10. MommersHeart on

      Poor people also have a much more difficult time getting ID, getting time off to vote, and getting transportation to vote.

    11. CurrentDismal9115 on

      Older people vote and young people are poor. I feel like age breakdown with the same setup would make a good 3rd panel if possible.

    13. thebrokencup on

      I’d wonder when you hit diminishing returns (or reversal) on household income increasing voting turnout. 150K household income may be well off in some places, not so well off in others, so it feels like a low bracket to end this analysis at. Curious if the clear “upper classes” care about national politics as much as we think they do.

    14. Nder_Wiggin on

      Results don’t surprise me at all. The rich new they were going to get richer off the stupidity of the poor.

    15. srobertanv on

      There’s an inverse relationship between wealth or income and cynicism about participation in politics. Among the poor it is more common to think that politicians are big on promises to the working class, but really only care about serving their wealthy donors.