Follow Your Heart Index city profile

El Cajon, California

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 173,694 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #973 of 129155.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #55172.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #114741.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #74965.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #80135.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #82661.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1842,467 | 24.4%

18 to 2414,833 | 8.5%

25 to 3422,407 | 12.9%

35 to 5443,194 | 24.9%

55 to 6422,243 | 12.8%

65 and older28,550 | 16.4%

Marital landscape

Married68,054 | 48.2%

Never married47,435 | 33.6%

Divorced15,683 | 11.1%

Separated2,490 | 1.8%

Widowed7,467 | 5.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White103,642 | 59.7%

Black or African American9,103 | 5.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,489 | 1.4%

Asian8,207 | 4.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander1,203 | 0.7%

Hispanic or Latino47,581 | 27.4%

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.

German14,581 reported responses
English13,347 reported responses
Irish11,577 reported responses
Iraqi11,220 reported responses
Italian6,518 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$81,388

Employment rate55.0%

Typical home value$858,449

Typical rent$2,322

Mortgage access60.4

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes62.1%

Poverty rate16.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
92019	56.9	61.5	46.3	72.2	36.6	68.1
92020	57.5	77.9	40.4	64.3	34.4	65.8
92021	53.9	74.5	38.9	63.3	35.0	53.8