Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Portage, Michigan

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 50,560 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #140 of 129164.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #73465.9100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #11365.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #52371.3100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #17942.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #45671.0100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1810,643 | 21.1%

18 to 244,815 | 9.5%

25 to 347,300 | 14.4%

35 to 5412,605 | 24.9%

55 to 646,154 | 12.2%

65 and older9,043 | 17.9%

Marital landscape

Married21,938 | 52.0%

Never married13,676 | 32.4%

Divorced4,194 | 9.9%

Separated249 | 0.6%

Widowed2,149 | 5.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White41,584 | 82.2%

Black or African American3,104 | 6.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native348 | 0.7%

Asian1,700 | 3.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino2,810 | 5.6%

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.

German10,468 reported responses
English8,335 reported responses
Irish5,787 reported responses
Dutch4,717 reported responses
American2,593 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$84,230

Employment rate65.0%

Typical home value$286,021

Typical rent$1,743

Mortgage access77.5

Migration opportunity5.6

Commute under 30 minutes79.7%

Poverty rate7.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
49002	64.2	70.0	63.5	68.7	41.0	71.8
49024	64.0	63.2	66.3	73.0	43.4	70.5