Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Evanston, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 81,020 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #230 of 129162.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #24682.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #66352.299.7% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #51671.699.7% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #121430.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #52869.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1815,090 | 18.6%

18 to 2412,261 | 15.1%

25 to 349,985 | 12.3%

35 to 5418,642 | 23.0%

55 to 649,985 | 12.3%

65 and older15,057 | 18.6%

Marital landscape

Married30,044 | 43.6%

Never married28,896 | 42.0%

Divorced6,670 | 9.7%

Separated536 | 0.8%

Widowed2,725 | 4.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White47,941 | 59.2%

Black or African American11,377 | 14.0%

American Indian and Alaska Native272 | 0.3%

Asian7,630 | 9.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander31 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino9,759 | 12.1%

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.

German11,759 reported responses
Irish9,824 reported responses
English7,986 reported responses
Polish4,514 reported responses
Italian4,012 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$87,255

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$681,718

Typical rent$2,316

Mortgage access66.0

Migration opportunity1.7

Commute under 30 minutes57.0%

Poverty rate11.4%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
60201	62.9	91.2	45.7	68.2	28.4	71.1
60202	63.6	77.6	58.8	74.4	33.2	66.7
60203	56.4	30.6	66.6	84.3	39.4	67.9
60208	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	3.9	69.3