Redfin Report: Nearly Half of Biden Voters Want to Live in Place Where Weed Is Legal, Compared to Only 12% of Trump Voters
April 18 2024 - 7:20AM
Business Wire
Over half of LGBTQ+ respondents want to live in
a place where weed is legal, compared with under one-quarter of
non-LGBTQ+ respondents
(NASDAQ: RDFN) —Nearly half (46.8%) of U.S. homeowners and
renters who plan to vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential
election want to live in a place where recreational weed is legal,
compared to 12.4% of U.S residents who plan to vote for Donald
Trump. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com),
the technology-powered real estate brokerage.
The data in this report is from a Redfin-commissioned survey
conducted by Qualtrics in February 2024. The nationally
representative survey was fielded to 2,995 U.S. homeowners and
renters, of whom 1,162 said they plan to vote for Donald Trump and
1,171 said they plan to vote for Joe Biden. The remainder of the
respondents said they don’t plan to vote for either of those
candidates.
Overall, roughly one-quarter (26.4%) of U.S. homeowners and
renters want to live in a place where weed is legal, while about
one-third (32.3%) don’t want to, and 41.3% are indifferent.
Recreational weed is legal in 24 states and Washington, D.C., and
it could soon be legalized in a handful of others.
High Earners, College Grads and Remote Workers More Likely to
Want to Live In a Place Where Weed Is Legal
More than one-third (35.2%) of homeowners and renters who make
at least $100,000 want to live in a place where recreational weed
is legal. That compares with just over one-quarter (25.9%) of
people making between $50,000 and $100,000, and just under
one-quarter (23.2%) of people making less than $50,000.
People with college degrees, who tend to earn more money than
people without, were also more likely to support recreational
cannabis. Over one-third (35.6%) of respondents who listed their
educational attainment status as “college or higher” want to live
in a place where recreational weed is legal. That compares with
17.7% of people who have high school diplomas and 20.3% of people
who don’t.
Respondents who work remotely were more likely (36%) than those
who don’t (20.2%) to say they want to live in a place where weed is
legal.
Renters and homeowners felt about the same: Roughly 26% of both
groups want to live somewhere weed is legal.
Gen Zers and LGBTQ+ Respondents More Likely to Say They Want
to Live Somewhere With Legal Weed
Nearly one-third (32.1%) of Gen Zers said they want to live in a
place where recreational weed is legal, compared with 31.8% of
millennials, 26.1% of Gen Xers and 21.4% of Baby Boomers.
The majority of respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ (54.6%)—the
lion’s share of whom are Gen Zers—prefer to live somewhere with
legal weed. That compares with less than one-quarter (23.2%) of
people who identified as non-LGBTQ+.
To view the full report, including charts, please visit:
https://www.redfin.com/news/legal-weed-housing-survey-2024
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