Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Gretna, Louisiana

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 56,969 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1212 of 129151.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #28581.3100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #123237.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #123653.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #111932.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #125742.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1815,428 | 27.1%

18 to 244,265 | 7.5%

25 to 347,896 | 13.9%

35 to 5414,972 | 26.3%

55 to 646,664 | 11.7%

65 and older7,744 | 13.6%

Marital landscape

Married19,169 | 42.7%

Never married16,978 | 37.8%

Divorced5,014 | 11.2%

Separated1,443 | 3.2%

Widowed2,292 | 5.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White18,648 | 32.7%

Black or African American21,178 | 37.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native780 | 1.4%

Asian2,999 | 5.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino15,149 | 26.6%

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.

French (except Basque)3,230 reported responses
American2,708 reported responses
German2,585 reported responses
Irish2,550 reported responses
Italian2,153 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$65,532

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$238,780

Typical rent$1,467

Mortgage access58.4

Migration opportunity2.9

Commute under 30 minutes58.9%

Poverty rate22.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
70053	51.1	91.4	32.6	47.5	28.4	43.8
70056	50.9	76.8	39.1	56.0	33.8	42.0