Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Waterloo, Iowa

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 69,066 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #550 of 129159.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #31980.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #60853.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #111657.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #9345.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #106554.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1816,571 | 24.0%

18 to 246,395 | 9.3%

25 to 349,494 | 13.7%

35 to 5416,051 | 23.2%

55 to 648,479 | 12.3%

65 and older12,076 | 17.5%

Marital landscape

Married24,797 | 43.9%

Never married20,773 | 36.8%

Divorced6,591 | 11.7%

Separated1,221 | 2.2%

Widowed3,040 | 5.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White48,327 | 70.0%

Black or African American10,783 | 15.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native286 | 0.4%

Asian2,134 | 3.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander964 | 1.4%

Hispanic or Latino5,156 | 7.5%

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.

German16,660 reported responses
Irish7,020 reported responses
English4,965 reported responses
American3,410 reported responses
Norwegian2,004 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$68,094

Employment rate62.0%

Typical home value$156,681

Typical rent$882

Mortgage access74.4

Migration opportunity5.2

Commute under 30 minutes90.5%

Poverty rate15.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
50701	59.7	74.0	55.3	58.9	45.6	58.8
50702	62.2	83.0	57.7	60.0	47.0	54.9
50703	57.1	87.1	45.2	53.0	44.5	47.0