Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Fort Myers, Florida

A city-market profile built from 11 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 283,434 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1151 of 129152.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #99253.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #98245.798.3% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #81064.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #105432.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #61566.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1845,123 | 15.9%

18 to 2425,512 | 9.0%

25 to 3432,057 | 11.3%

35 to 5462,371 | 22.0%

55 to 6436,449 | 12.9%

65 and older81,922 | 28.9%

Marital landscape

Married122,965 | 49.3%

Never married75,243 | 30.1%

Divorced29,369 | 11.8%

Separated3,283 | 1.3%

Widowed18,772 | 7.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White186,562 | 65.8%

Black or African American28,079 | 9.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,397 | 0.8%

Asian6,642 | 2.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander91 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino56,483 | 19.9%

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.

German37,501 reported responses
Irish31,613 reported responses
American30,745 reported responses
English27,540 reported responses
Italian20,844 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$77,426

Employment rate52.0%

Typical home value$353,925

Typical rent$1,787

Mortgage access59.7

Migration opportunity99.1

Commute under 30 minutes62.2%

Poverty rate12.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
33901	55.7	85.6	36.2	56.6	31.1	60.3
33905	56.9	80.2	42.6	62.7	32.9	59.5
33907	52.8	79.6	34.9	54.8	31.0	56.6
33908	41.8	9.7	41.4	68.1	32.1	69.7
33912	51.0	17.0	54.8	75.8	35.5	81.9
33913	52.8	20.7	54.8	78.6	36.3	83.7
33916	54.4	88.0	37.2	52.1	31.8	52.4
33919	49.1	31.7	48.0	68.9	32.8	69.7
33965	Not published	99.7	Not published	10.3	7.8	58.0
33966	62.3	63.4	57.6	73.5	34.3	79.4
33967	61.7	72.2	57.3	71.4	36.7	65.6