Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lafayette, Indiana

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 106,622 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #766 of 129158.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #71366.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #58853.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #103759.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #7646.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #89359.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1826,126 | 24.5%

18 to 2410,300 | 9.7%

25 to 3417,784 | 16.7%

35 to 5425,912 | 24.3%

55 to 6411,787 | 11.1%

65 and older14,713 | 13.8%

Marital landscape

Married41,364 | 48.2%

Never married28,241 | 32.9%

Divorced10,972 | 12.8%

Separated845 | 1.0%

Widowed4,312 | 5.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White80,694 | 75.7%

Black or African American8,600 | 8.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native117 | 0.1%

Asian2,952 | 2.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino13,434 | 12.6%

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.

German19,984 reported responses
English11,488 reported responses
Irish9,831 reported responses
American4,849 reported responses
Polish2,301 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$70,555

Employment rate65.0%

Typical home value$262,943

Typical rent$1,326

Mortgage access69.8

Migration opportunity35.1

Commute under 30 minutes87.8%

Poverty rate14.7%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
47901	60.6	97.9	48.5	50.7	35.5	55.2
47904	57.5	90.3	45.5	53.0	41.1	47.0
47905	58.2	53.6	55.5	61.3	51.0	70.2
47909	57.7	66.5	55.8	61.7	45.9	54.6