Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Bakersfield, California

A city-market profile built from 10 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 554,202 residents.

City-market rollup: ZIPs assigned to this primary city. These figures are not official municipal-boundary population estimates.

Follow Your Heart Index | National #883 of 129156.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #45375.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #102044.7100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #83564.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #47137.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #98057.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18161,320 | 29.1%

18 to 2455,137 | 9.9%

25 to 3480,828 | 14.6%

35 to 54135,839 | 24.5%

55 to 6456,446 | 10.2%

65 and older64,632 | 11.7%

Marital landscape

Married199,791 | 46.3%

Never married163,908 | 38.0%

Divorced38,542 | 8.9%

Separated9,405 | 2.2%

Widowed19,803 | 4.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

Race and Hispanic ethnicity are separate Census concepts and may overlap. Values provide community context, not relationship quality.

White177,886 | 32.1%

Black or African American30,441 | 5.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native6,992 | 1.3%

Asian35,421 | 6.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander1,054 | 0.2%

Hispanic or Latino302,201 | 54.5%

Ethnicity and heritage communities

These are the leading reported heritage communities among contributing ZIPs. The Census source calls them ancestry responses, and people may report more than one.

English32,285 reported responses
German31,007 reported responses
Irish25,769 reported responses
American19,358 reported responses
Italian11,777 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$79,266

Employment rate56.0%

Typical home value$381,888

Typical rent$1,837

Mortgage access61.1

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes75.7%

Poverty rate17.4%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
93301	50.6	92.1	28.2	44.8	29.4	46.9
93304	50.9	93.0	29.6	49.5	34.0	38.7
93306	53.5	83.0	36.6	59.5	37.0	45.6
93307	52.8	90.6	34.4	53.6	36.7	40.1
93308	54.2	77.7	37.6	59.0	34.2	56.8
93309	57.2	85.7	40.4	59.5	35.8	56.8
93311	64.4	61.9	61.1	79.2	41.4	77.5
93312	60.3	48.5	60.7	78.9	41.3	74.7
93313	62.8	73.2	55.4	73.3	41.4	67.3
93314	59.4	39.8	62.7	80.7	42.3	77.0