Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chicago Heights, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 1 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 52,175 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1125 of 129153.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #7390.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #124536.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #114457.1100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #118531.3100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #125842.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,421 | 25.7%

18 to 245,062 | 9.7%

25 to 347,305 | 14.0%

35 to 5412,753 | 24.4%

55 to 646,016 | 11.5%

65 and older7,618 | 14.6%

Marital landscape

Married15,269 | 36.2%

Never married18,839 | 44.7%

Divorced4,546 | 10.8%

Separated900 | 2.1%

Widowed2,589 | 6.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White10,318 | 19.8%

Black or African American25,885 | 49.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native660 | 1.3%

Asian155 | 0.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander11 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino13,441 | 25.8%

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.

German2,694 reported responses
Italian2,282 reported responses
Irish2,196 reported responses
Polish1,795 reported responses
American1,456 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$71,118

Employment rate54.0%

Typical home value$168,829

Typical rent$1,596

Mortgage access50.1

Migration opportunity0.7

Commute under 30 minutes50.4%

Poverty rate22.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
60411	53.5	90.5	36.4	57.1	31.3	42.4