Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Grand Rapids, Michigan

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 181,325 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #314 of 129162.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #23183.3100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #52955.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #92862.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #96633.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #69364.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1838,920 | 21.5%

18 to 2421,341 | 11.8%

25 to 3436,371 | 20.1%

35 to 5441,518 | 22.9%

55 to 6418,824 | 10.4%

65 and older24,351 | 13.4%

Marital landscape

Married60,719 | 40.3%

Never married65,776 | 43.6%

Divorced16,154 | 10.7%

Separated2,042 | 1.4%

Widowed6,065 | 4.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White113,243 | 62.5%

Black or African American26,544 | 14.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,291 | 0.7%

Asian4,069 | 2.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander72 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino30,604 | 16.9%

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.

German27,061 reported responses
Dutch18,482 reported responses
Irish16,945 reported responses
English16,135 reported responses
Polish12,352 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$75,906

Employment rate65.0%

Typical home value$285,549

Typical rent$1,656

Mortgage access70.4

Migration opportunity38.4

Commute under 30 minutes83.3%

Poverty rate16.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
49503	63.5	96.4	52.9	58.2	30.0	64.8
49504	63.5	90.7	54.1	62.0	32.6	65.4
49505	63.2	86.0	56.6	63.8	34.0	64.2
49507	58.4	90.3	46.8	56.6	35.4	51.8
49525	60.9	44.5	68.5	73.1	38.3	80.0