Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Cambridge, Massachusetts

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 119,000 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #3 of 129172.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #1195.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #23261.496.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #30776.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #127128.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #3985.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1814,705 | 12.4%

18 to 2424,831 | 20.9%

25 to 3431,725 | 26.7%

35 to 5425,002 | 21.0%

55 to 648,272 | 7.0%

65 and older14,465 | 12.2%

Marital landscape

Married34,707 | 32.3%

Never married63,104 | 58.7%

Divorced6,241 | 5.8%

Separated899 | 0.8%

Widowed2,469 | 2.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White66,617 | 56.0%

Black or African American12,495 | 10.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native198 | 0.2%

Asian24,243 | 20.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander70 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino10,505 | 8.8%

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.

Irish12,763 reported responses
English10,126 reported responses
German9,869 reported responses
Italian8,984 reported responses
American3,534 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$95,931

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$1,807,220

Typical rent$3,336

Mortgage access69.4

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes60.2%

Poverty rate12.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
02138	70.7	96.5	56.4	75.5	28.6	84.4
02139	73.7	97.4	64.0	76.4	28.7	88.1
02140	71.9	90.0	65.0	78.4	30.7	83.8
02141	72.1	97.6	62.3	75.8	27.5	83.4
02142	Not published	96.1	Not published	79.5	29.3	89.4