Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Santa Cruz, California

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 100,040 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #22 of 129167.6Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #12088.0100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #65352.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #47072.6100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #22041.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #24576.9100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1812,898 | 12.9%

18 to 2421,986 | 22.0%

25 to 3413,993 | 14.0%

35 to 5422,585 | 22.6%

55 to 6410,930 | 10.9%

65 and older17,648 | 17.6%

Marital landscape

Married33,707 | 37.2%

Never married43,685 | 48.2%

Divorced8,914 | 9.8%

Separated870 | 1.0%

Widowed3,401 | 3.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White63,660 | 63.6%

Black or African American1,424 | 1.4%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,006 | 1.0%

Asian7,812 | 7.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander277 | 0.3%

Hispanic or Latino23,013 | 23.0%

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.

English12,390 reported responses
German12,254 reported responses
Irish12,109 reported responses
Italian7,636 reported responses
European3,392 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$91,075

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$1,363,009

Typical rent$3,434

Mortgage access66.4

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes72.2%

Poverty rate15.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
95060	67.9	92.1	51.0	70.5	40.2	77.7
95062	68.3	83.3	58.2	74.3	42.4	77.2
95064	63.0	99.5	35.9	68.5	37.7	66.3
95065	67.1	67.8	55.8	82.4	46.0	84.8