Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Normal, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 1 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 54,075 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #188 of 129163.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #2094.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #77849.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #107359.0100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #32739.3100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #78762.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 188,787 | 16.2%

18 to 2418,180 | 33.6%

25 to 345,983 | 11.1%

35 to 549,982 | 18.5%

55 to 644,561 | 8.4%

65 and older6,582 | 12.2%

Marital landscape

Married15,942 | 33.7%

Never married25,416 | 53.8%

Divorced3,632 | 7.7%

Separated295 | 0.6%

Widowed1,972 | 4.2%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White40,794 | 75.4%

Black or African American5,859 | 10.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native178 | 0.3%

Asian2,289 | 4.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander17 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino3,864 | 7.2%

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.

German12,198 reported responses
English7,357 reported responses
Irish7,270 reported responses
Italian2,516 reported responses
Polish2,337 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,513

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$261,025

Typical rent$1,324

Mortgage access74.7

Migration opportunity2.2

Commute under 30 minutes86.5%

Poverty rate21.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
61761	63.4	94.8	49.9	59.0	39.3	62.2