Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chicago, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 56 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 2,694,535 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #726 of 129158.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #9789.3100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #101644.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #85863.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #124829.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #107654.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18520,477 | 19.3%

18 to 24259,848 | 9.6%

25 to 34530,239 | 19.7%

35 to 54712,683 | 26.4%

55 to 64298,713 | 11.1%

65 and older372,575 | 13.8%

Marital landscape

Married851,831 | 36.8%

Never married1,124,111 | 48.6%

Divorced179,825 | 7.8%

Separated49,268 | 2.1%

Widowed108,844 | 4.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White890,057 | 33.0%

Black or African American748,613 | 27.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native29,464 | 1.1%

Asian198,251 | 7.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander1,433 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino800,004 | 29.7%

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.

German202,432 reported responses
Irish196,923 reported responses
Polish131,867 reported responses
Italian99,647 reported responses
English90,423 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$78,069

Employment rate62.0%

Typical home value$477,829

Typical rent$1,893

Mortgage access60.2

Migration opportunity0.8

Commute under 30 minutes42.6%

Poverty rate16.7%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
60601	71.1	90.8	64.7	80.6	29.1	78.7
60602	71.4	93.7	65.4	76.4	31.3	77.4
60603	68.6	88.5	63.3	76.0	27.6	75.8
60604	55.6	51.8	52.8	69.9	27.2	74.6
60605	71.0	95.9	62.8	78.4	27.8	76.9
60606	75.9	98.3	70.6	87.4	26.7	82.8
60607	70.8	97.1	63.6	74.9	27.1	76.6
60608	59.2	94.5	41.6	62.3	28.2	57.9
60609	53.0	90.9	35.6	54.2	29.7	43.8
60610	68.3	96.1	59.9	72.8	25.8	72.7
60611	70.5	89.7	64.8	79.9	28.3	78.3
60612	56.1	96.9	34.6	55.9	26.8	54.0
60613	67.6	95.6	58.9	72.8	27.4	69.7
60614	71.5	94.9	64.8	79.6	28.9	76.7
60615	55.2	95.5	36.6	57.3	25.7	48.7
60616	58.3	88.1	44.2	62.0	27.3	59.1
60617	50.1	91.9	29.7	52.6	28.6	37.6
60618	66.3	83.5	60.4	75.6	33.0	70.3
60619	49.2	95.2	26.7	50.0	26.4	36.1
60620	49.1	95.8	25.8	50.9	28.7	34.0
60621	44.6	97.7	22.0	41.0	24.2	24.7
60622	71.7	94.6	65.0	80.4	30.3	75.7
60623	50.3	92.5	31.2	52.2	29.5	35.6
60624	46.6	97.2	22.4	42.5	26.6	31.8
60625	63.9	89.3	54.8	69.7	31.0	63.8
60626	58.2	96.0	43.4	58.1	24.6	54.6
60628	50.3	94.4	28.3	53.3	29.1	36.1
60629	51.1	86.6	34.1	58.2	32.7	36.2
60630	60.8	70.0	57.4	72.9	33.6	64.8
60631	60.7	54.9	60.7	76.9	34.7	75.4
60632	54.2	85.2	41.0	61.4	32.9	42.7
60633	53.3	84.6	36.6	61.3	30.1	46.7
60634	58.1	73.3	53.0	70.3	34.2	54.4
60636	46.0	95.0	23.6	45.5	27.6	26.6
60637	51.5	98.0	26.8	47.2	24.8	47.6
60638	61.5	72.6	57.5	72.0	34.3	65.0
60639	52.2	87.8	34.5	58.3	32.3	40.4
60640	61.1	94.9	49.5	62.8	25.1	59.2
60641	60.0	82.8	51.2	67.5	32.8	57.0
60642	72.9	96.5	66.0	80.2	28.5	80.1
60643	57.2	83.9	42.3	65.6	31.8	55.1
60644	47.6	96.9	23.9	47.0	26.8	31.5
60645	55.0	82.0	41.0	62.0	31.4	51.1
60646	58.7	52.9	58.2	76.6	34.8	71.2
60647	68.3	94.2	60.4	74.1	29.9	70.0
60649	48.7	97.8	27.5	47.2	24.5	33.3
60651	50.0	95.2	27.5	52.7	29.8	34.5
60652	58.9	87.5	45.1	67.9	34.0	52.1
60653	48.5	95.2	23.2	49.1	25.4	38.8
60654	74.1	97.1	67.6	84.2	27.4	80.7
60655	61.7	64.9	60.5	80.1	34.7	66.0
60656	58.8	59.7	59.8	73.6	33.5	64.3
60657	70.3	95.8	62.8	77.3	27.5	74.7
60659	55.3	81.9	39.8	62.1	32.9	52.8
60660	57.7	95.7	42.6	60.7	24.5	51.8
60661	72.9	97.4	65.7	79.1	26.4	81.6