Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lexington, Kentucky

A city-market profile built from 15 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 324,356 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #453 of 129160.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #48774.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #49355.898.7% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #90862.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #70336.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #61666.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1868,007 | 21.0%

18 to 2444,260 | 13.6%

25 to 3448,586 | 15.0%

35 to 5479,913 | 24.6%

55 to 6435,712 | 11.0%

65 and older47,878 | 14.8%

Marital landscape

Married118,846 | 43.7%

Never married104,754 | 38.5%

Divorced32,536 | 12.0%

Separated3,600 | 1.3%

Widowed12,044 | 4.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White225,682 | 69.6%

Black or African American46,848 | 14.4%

American Indian and Alaska Native714 | 0.2%

Asian14,127 | 4.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander33 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino30,488 | 9.4%

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.

English46,639 reported responses
German40,365 reported responses
Irish35,473 reported responses
American24,475 reported responses
Scottish8,361 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$76,100

Employment rate65.0%

Typical home value$344,265

Typical rent$1,510

Mortgage access70.4

Migration opportunity37.5

Commute under 30 minutes79.0%

Poverty rate15.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
40502	63.7	73.7	59.8	68.4	35.4	73.5
40503	63.8	73.7	61.8	66.7	36.5	72.2
40504	56.2	95.4	42.0	45.9	30.0	52.6
40505	56.0	81.1	46.7	56.6	34.6	52.0
40507	57.2	93.9	44.5	49.9	25.9	55.9
40508	52.5	98.4	34.0	38.9	26.0	48.3
40509	66.0	62.5	65.8	73.1	40.3	84.5
40510	Not published	95.9	Not published	84.6	34.4	75.9
40511	66.5	86.1	57.3	65.6	37.9	75.7
40513	53.4	9.1	66.9	80.2	42.4	79.9
40514	54.8	29.1	66.8	77.0	42.6	64.4
40515	63.2	63.0	64.4	72.1	39.9	72.6
40516	54.4	39.6	57.6	67.8	38.5	70.6
40517	57.8	91.1	47.1	53.2	33.9	50.8
40526	Not published	99.6	Not published	0.0	9.2	28.4