We compared New Jersey's current demographics to what they were in 2008 and found out what's changed and how it will change this upcoming presidential election.
It's been eight years since Barack Obama was elected president, and we're only about 10 weeks away from voting a new administration into office.
But how has the electorate in New Jersey changed since 2008?
We looked at Census data to examine some differences between 2008 electorate and the one that will be casting their ballots in November.
According to the numbers, New Jersey's demographic changes over the last eight years, which include more millennials, more Hispanics and population surges in urban areas, are veering the already solidly blue state even more to the left.
In addition, the economic stagnation in the Garden state that could be helping Republican candidate Donald Trump seems to barely be improving his chances.
Population Boom in urban areas of North Jersey
A comparison of two Census population estimates (one from 2005-2009 and the other from 2010-2014) shows that New Jersey's voting-age population has grown from 6.6 million to 6.8 million.
In other words, the electorate has become larger by at least 3.9 percent.
A county-by-county breakdown shows that voting-age populations have increased in all New Jersey counties. Still, North Jersey counties benefited more from the population boom that those in South Jersey.
Hudson county's voting-age population skyrocketed by 9 percent, while Middlesex and Union also saw increases of 6.5 and 5.2 percent, respectively. Passaic grew by 4.6 percent, while Bergen did so by 4.1 percent.
Meanwhile, coastal and southern counties experienced only modest growth. Monmouth, Camden, Salem and Cape May counties all saw less than 1 percent growth in their voting-age population.
This is a shift from the previous decade, when the coastal and southern New Jersey counties were growing at a faster rate than their northern neighbors, according to the 2010 Census.
South Jersey has always been less populous, but since the 2008 election, the population gulf between the two regions has grown wider.
Sparsely population Sussex and Warren counties have also stagnated in their voting-age population, both growing less than one percent in eight years. A Rutgers study found that starting in 2010, urban counties were growing faster than suburban counties in New Jersey for the first time since World War II.
More Millennials
The 2008 election was memorable for its high youth voter turnout, which gave Barack Obama his decisive victory.
In this election, there may be even more potential young voters in New Jersey.
According to a Census analysis of population demographics from 2010 to 2014, the number of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 grew to 1.9 million from 1.8 million when compared to the previous five years.
This is in step with what's happening in the rest of the country, where millennials have matched baby boomers as the largest electorate in the U.S.
However, their turnout rate on Election Day is still lower than other age groups. Only 46 percent of New Jersey residents between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the 2012 election, according to Census data.
Economic Recovery Stagnated
In 2008, New Jersey residents had not experienced the full effects of the Great Recession. Census data shows that it's still struggling to recover from it.
The household median income from a Census analysis taken from 2010 to 2014 was $72,062 -- down significantly from household median income data taken from 2005 to 2009, which was $76,119 when adjusted for 2014 inflation.
Atlantic County residents, in particular, were hit hard. The median income went down from $60,618 to $54,392-- a staggering 10 percent decrease.
In fact, New Jersey residents saw their household median income decline since 2008 and remain stagnant after 2013. When you adjust for inflation, the data shows that New Jersey residents are earning less than they did 10 years ago.
In addition, nearly one million people in New Jersey now live in poverty, according to Census data. Back in 2005, there were only about 739,000 who lived below the poverty line.
More Hispanics and Asians
Since the election in 2008, the Hispanic population has surged by about 20 percent-- from 1.4 million to 1.6 million, according to a Census analysis of population demographics comparing estimates from 2005-2009 to ones from 2010-2014.
In fact, the increasing Hispanic population is fueling much of New Jersey's recent population growth, according to Census data.
Non-Hispanic whites still make up most of the New Jersey population at 57 percent, while Hispanics are at 19 percent, making them the largest minority group in the state.
However, that doesn't make them the fastest growing racial demographic. That distinction goes to the Asian population in New Jersey, which went from about 638,000 in 2005-2009 to about 775,000 in 2010-2014, growing by about 21.5 percent.
Because immigrants make up a sizable part of the Hispanic population in New Jersey, only 48 percent of them are eligible to vote - about 831,000, according to Pew Research Center.
The same report states that the primary source of eligible voters among New Jersey Hispanics are young U.S. citizens turning 18 years old.
What does it all mean?
It's still unlikely that Trump will win in New Jersey. The latest FiveThirtyEight projections show Clinton has an 88.2 percent chance of winning the state.
Even though actual voters in New Jersey are older and whiter, the new demographics make a Trump victory even less likely, according to Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth Polling Institute.
"We've been seeing a trend that [New Jersey's] becoming more diverse," said Murray. "In turn, that has been driving Democratic numbers in a lot of places."
When it comes to Hispanics and millennials - two groups who tend to vote Democrat - Murray has noticed even though turnout rates haven't gone up, the numbers of total voters has.
"It's not that there is more enthusiasm - just that there are more of them," he said.
As for the New Jersey population shifting to urban counties, Murray attributes this to political self-segregation, where people purposely move to places where they can be closer to people who think like them politically. This is making urban counties increasingly more Democratic, while making rural and suburban ones are more Republican.
When it comes to the economy, though, by all objective measures, the economic anxiety felt by New Jersey residents of stagnating incomes and slow recovery should be driving them to Trump.
"We're just not seeing that," Murray said. "We have a strange phenomenon where people are blaming both sides for what's happening."
One thing to keep in mind is that the Census data covers all New Jersey residents. This analysis is about the potential electorate in this year's election compared to what it was in 2008 - not actual voters.
The New Jersey Division of Elections does not break down New Jersey voter registration by demographic so it's difficult to predict who will actually show up to vote this year.
Back in 2012, only 64.3 percent of the eligible population in New Jersey registered to vote and only 54.5 percent showed up to the polls that November. In addition, each of the last seven elections has set a record for low voter turnout in New Jersey.
Carla Astudillo may be reached at castudillo@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @carla_astudi. Find her on Facebook.
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