Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Washington, District Of Columbia

A city-market profile built from 29 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 680,896 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #125 of 129164.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #4192.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #63452.898.5% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #53571.099.5% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #126329.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #68464.8100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18127,170 | 18.7%

18 to 2464,904 | 9.5%

25 to 34150,145 | 22.1%

35 to 54186,077 | 27.3%

55 to 6465,441 | 9.6%

65 and older87,159 | 12.8%

Marital landscape

Married184,509 | 31.9%

Never married316,422 | 54.7%

Divorced48,634 | 8.4%

Separated8,009 | 1.4%

Widowed21,039 | 3.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White249,703 | 36.7%

Black or African American286,975 | 42.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,528 | 0.4%

Asian29,719 | 4.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander336 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino81,102 | 11.9%

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.

Irish55,298 reported responses
German52,896 reported responses
English48,075 reported responses
Italian31,565 reported responses
American19,028 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$89,307

Employment rate66.0%

Typical home value$834,215

Typical rent$2,292

Mortgage access61.8

Migration opportunity1.8

Commute under 30 minutes48.1%

Poverty rate15.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

Scores remain governed at ZIP level. Select a ZIP to examine it in the comparison workspace.

ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
20001	71.0	98.0	62.7	76.4	26.6	76.9
20002	69.7	95.7	60.5	75.9	29.4	74.2
20003	73.9	95.2	67.0	85.5	29.9	80.3
20004	73.2	89.7	68.1	91.7	30.5	77.0
20005	71.9	98.1	64.0	77.9	26.5	78.8
20006	Not published	99.5	Not published	31.9	10.7	52.0
20007	71.1	86.3	66.2	82.0	31.2	79.9
20008	69.7	89.5	64.4	78.8	29.3	75.0
20009	72.7	97.1	66.5	81.7	28.3	76.3
20010	69.0	95.6	60.9	72.9	29.3	72.7
20011	64.9	91.3	54.4	73.2	32.7	63.0
20012	66.2	87.1	56.9	78.0	34.1	66.8
20015	55.2	12.5	67.7	89.0	37.8	80.4
20016	68.6	81.1	59.5	81.9	32.5	81.6
20017	65.1	88.1	54.4	72.4	32.3	68.7
20018	63.3	91.8	51.0	68.7	30.0	63.8
20019	51.8	97.7	28.5	54.7	28.3	39.2
20020	49.8	97.7	25.7	50.5	27.8	36.0
20024	66.9	97.9	56.1	72.1	25.5	68.8
20032	49.7	97.0	25.2	50.8	26.2	37.8
20036	69.6	98.9	61.7	72.0	21.8	76.9
20037	67.9	98.3	56.1	72.0	24.2	74.6
20052	Not published	99.8	Not published	33.0	9.1	27.3
20057	Not published	100.0	Not published	0.0	6.7	35.9
20059	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	5.1	74.2
20064	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	6.7	40.3
20319	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	16.1	36.6
20390	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	16.1	8.7
20422	Not published	97.8	Not published	Not published	2.9	48.9