Follow Your Heart Index city profile

South Bend, Indiana

A city-market profile built from 11 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 148,934 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #851 of 129157.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #30380.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #77050.0100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #108758.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #76235.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #113551.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1835,236 | 23.7%

18 to 2413,261 | 8.9%

25 to 3421,068 | 14.1%

35 to 5436,061 | 24.2%

55 to 6417,519 | 11.8%

65 and older25,789 | 17.3%

Marital landscape

Married52,042 | 42.8%

Never married46,372 | 38.1%

Divorced14,995 | 12.3%

Separated1,825 | 1.5%

Widowed6,408 | 5.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White90,571 | 60.8%

Black or African American26,709 | 17.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native591 | 0.4%

Asian3,375 | 2.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander150 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino21,704 | 14.6%

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.

German22,989 reported responses
Irish15,750 reported responses
Polish12,439 reported responses
English10,204 reported responses
American9,555 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$70,201

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$186,630

Typical rent$1,317

Mortgage access67.0

Migration opportunity6.1

Commute under 30 minutes77.6%

Poverty rate17.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
46601	49.4	94.5	28.1	40.1	26.6	43.8
46613	49.8	94.2	35.5	41.9	34.5	29.6
46614	58.8	66.3	58.1	66.2	37.3	61.0
46615	60.2	89.3	54.2	59.8	34.6	51.0
46616	59.1	93.1	51.5	58.9	34.9	44.4
46617	63.0	85.7	54.8	64.9	33.8	65.5
46619	51.4	83.6	40.1	51.5	36.1	36.6
46624	Not published	95.8	Not published	31.4	16.7	43.0
46628	57.2	80.3	49.2	57.4	36.5	53.7
46635	58.8	64.2	55.1	68.5	37.6	65.3
46637	61.2	81.6	58.5	64.7	34.8	56.2