Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lafayette, Louisiana

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 158,114 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #719 of 129158.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #42176.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #70851.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #104259.6100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #86634.7100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #81861.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1835,567 | 22.5%

18 to 2414,466 | 9.1%

25 to 3425,061 | 15.8%

35 to 5438,473 | 24.3%

55 to 6419,232 | 12.2%

65 and older25,315 | 16.0%

Marital landscape

Married58,797 | 44.9%

Never married50,915 | 38.9%

Divorced12,451 | 9.5%

Separated2,560 | 2.0%

Widowed6,301 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White95,338 | 60.3%

Black or African American46,999 | 29.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native208 | 0.1%

Asian3,607 | 2.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander103 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino11,988 | 7.6%

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)26,737 reported responses
German13,297 reported responses
English9,856 reported responses
Irish8,892 reported responses
American7,322 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$72,435

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$224,674

Typical rent$1,268

Mortgage access63.2

Migration opportunity44.3

Commute under 30 minutes78.6%

Poverty rate18.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
70501	49.0	95.7	29.0	37.6	28.0	39.9
70503	64.1	56.9	69.3	73.0	39.5	78.6
70506	59.4	88.6	48.8	56.9	33.2	57.5
70507	55.3	76.1	46.5	58.9	36.0	52.1
70508	60.9	64.6	58.1	67.7	36.7	72.8