Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Metairie, Louisiana

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 137,978 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #772 of 129158.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #56471.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #63952.6100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #77365.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #104033.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #86060.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1828,702 | 20.8%

18 to 249,214 | 6.7%

25 to 3418,117 | 13.1%

35 to 5433,971 | 24.6%

55 to 6418,408 | 13.3%

65 and older29,566 | 21.4%

Marital landscape

Married53,554 | 46.2%

Never married37,893 | 32.7%

Divorced14,954 | 12.9%

Separated1,691 | 1.5%

Widowed7,715 | 6.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White93,859 | 68.0%

Black or African American13,486 | 9.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,853 | 1.3%

Asian4,334 | 3.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino24,940 | 18.1%

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)19,381 reported responses
German19,099 reported responses
Italian17,924 reported responses
Irish15,253 reported responses
English11,558 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$78,280

Employment rate61.0%

Typical home value$338,763

Typical rent$1,703

Mortgage access64.5

Migration opportunity3.0

Commute under 30 minutes74.7%

Poverty rate12.6%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
70001	59.8	80.5	52.0	63.2	32.1	61.9
70002	58.9	80.8	49.7	61.4	31.3	62.1
70003	56.0	67.2	52.2	66.6	34.1	55.2
70005	58.0	58.9	57.8	70.9	33.1	66.0
70006	57.2	69.4	51.0	64.9	35.1	60.4