Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Meriden, Connecticut

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 60,545 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #681 of 129158.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #15786.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #97945.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #84764.0100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #115231.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #99056.9100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,259 | 21.9%

18 to 245,007 | 8.3%

25 to 348,475 | 14.0%

35 to 5414,617 | 24.1%

55 to 649,405 | 15.5%

65 and older9,782 | 16.2%

Marital landscape

Married19,880 | 39.4%

Never married20,346 | 40.3%

Divorced6,327 | 12.5%

Separated680 | 1.3%

Widowed3,211 | 6.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White30,551 | 50.5%

Black or African American5,131 | 8.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native378 | 0.6%

Asian1,529 | 2.5%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander16 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino23,217 | 38.4%

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.

Italian8,859 reported responses
Irish7,429 reported responses
Polish4,670 reported responses
German4,189 reported responses
English3,855 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$76,307

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$328,767

Typical rent$1,740

Mortgage access63.0

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes70.7%

Poverty rate13.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
06450	59.2	84.8	46.6	64.0	31.8	60.0
06451	58.2	88.7	44.8	64.0	31.8	52.4