Follow Your Heart Index city profile

New Bedford, Massachusetts

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 101,047 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1128 of 129153.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #9589.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #124136.5100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #118755.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #126229.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #121846.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1824,093 | 23.8%

18 to 249,248 | 9.2%

25 to 3414,091 | 13.9%

35 to 5426,621 | 26.3%

55 to 6411,445 | 11.3%

65 and older15,549 | 15.4%

Marital landscape

Married30,484 | 36.3%

Never married36,864 | 44.0%

Divorced9,632 | 11.5%

Separated2,308 | 2.8%

Widowed4,582 | 5.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White58,566 | 58.0%

Black or African American5,357 | 5.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native694 | 0.7%

Asian1,257 | 1.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander86 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino26,070 | 25.8%

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.

Portuguese30,153 reported responses
Cape Verdean9,637 reported responses
Irish9,468 reported responses
English6,534 reported responses
French (except Basque)5,901 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$67,925

Employment rate57.0%

Typical home value$430,861

Typical rent$1,939

Mortgage access63.0

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes69.1%

Poverty rate20.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
02740	54.0	90.9	35.7	55.6	29.1	48.0
02744	51.2	87.5	36.0	58.4	30.2	35.2
02745	58.5	83.1	47.3	63.8	30.7	58.6
02746	46.7	96.0	23.9	42.9	26.1	32.0