Follow Your Heart Index city profile

West Haven, Connecticut

A city-market profile built from 1 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 55,351 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #521 of 129160.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #8390.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #101944.7100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #83064.4100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #119231.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #87460.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1811,211 | 20.3%

18 to 248,301 | 15.0%

25 to 347,658 | 13.8%

35 to 5412,657 | 22.9%

55 to 646,685 | 12.1%

65 and older8,839 | 16.0%

Marital landscape

Married17,899 | 38.2%

Never married20,964 | 44.8%

Divorced4,902 | 10.5%

Separated680 | 1.5%

Widowed2,362 | 5.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White27,484 | 49.6%

Black or African American11,566 | 20.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native159 | 0.3%

Asian3,091 | 5.6%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander156 | 0.3%

Hispanic or Latino15,154 | 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.

Italian8,662 reported responses
Irish6,578 reported responses
German3,173 reported responses
Polish2,041 reported responses
English2,007 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$77,619

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$361,783

Typical rent$2,029

Mortgage access57.7

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes73.3%

Poverty rate14.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
06516	60.1	90.1	44.7	64.4	31.2	60.1