Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Baltimore, Maryland

A city-market profile built from 22 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 591,752 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #813 of 129157.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #5291.9100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #106243.599.5% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #103060.099.5% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #126029.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #113851.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18124,311 | 21.0%

18 to 2455,841 | 9.4%

25 to 34104,439 | 17.6%

35 to 54145,500 | 24.6%

55 to 6471,029 | 12.0%

65 and older90,632 | 15.3%

Marital landscape

Married156,574 | 31.2%

Never married252,625 | 50.4%

Divorced50,529 | 10.1%

Separated13,135 | 2.6%

Widowed28,247 | 5.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White187,409 | 31.7%

Black or African American326,901 | 55.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,214 | 0.4%

Asian18,757 | 3.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander277 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino44,167 | 7.5%

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.

German38,683 reported responses
Irish37,421 reported responses
English26,950 reported responses
Italian18,567 reported responses
American17,508 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,343

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$221,627

Typical rent$1,690

Mortgage access58.8

Migration opportunity2.8

Commute under 30 minutes59.3%

Poverty rate18.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

Scores remain governed at ZIP level. Select a ZIP to examine it in the comparison workspace.

ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
21201	56.0	98.4	41.6	49.0	22.6	51.3
21202	56.3	98.2	36.9	55.1	22.7	54.0
21205	49.7	95.4	29.7	44.6	28.1	37.9
21206	56.6	94.5	42.1	60.6	31.3	43.3
21209	59.3	62.1	55.5	72.6	34.2	69.2
21210	67.9	88.4	59.1	76.8	32.6	73.2
21211	66.2	90.6	60.0	69.2	28.6	69.5
21212	64.8	81.3	59.2	73.1	34.7	67.3
21213	51.3	97.8	32.1	52.6	29.0	33.1
21214	62.5	85.5	56.1	71.0	33.6	56.8
21215	52.5	90.3	33.7	54.0	28.9	45.6
21216	47.3	96.2	25.4	47.9	26.7	28.7
21217	47.3	97.8	25.7	44.6	23.0	31.3
21218	56.9	97.0	38.4	57.3	26.7	52.1
21223	50.2	96.4	31.7	49.0	27.6	33.7
21224	66.7	90.7	59.6	69.3	31.6	70.2
21229	53.8	95.4	36.3	56.9	29.7	39.6
21230	65.9	91.9	58.2	68.9	29.4	68.0
21231	65.9	96.0	57.6	66.2	27.6	67.3
21239	57.8	93.6	44.2	61.2	31.0	47.6
21250	Not published	99.7	Not published	Not published	8.2	49.6
21251	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	9.0	70.1