Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Meridian, Mississippi

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 57,827 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1235 of 129149.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #46575.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #126534.599.4% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #128048.799.4% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #6247.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #127440.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,148 | 22.7%

18 to 244,793 | 8.3%

25 to 347,618 | 13.2%

35 to 5414,086 | 24.4%

55 to 647,167 | 12.4%

65 and older11,015 | 19.0%

Marital landscape

Married19,102 | 39.7%

Never married17,211 | 35.8%

Divorced6,178 | 12.9%

Separated1,233 | 2.6%

Widowed4,345 | 9.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White27,619 | 47.8%

Black or African American26,152 | 45.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native191 | 0.3%

Asian496 | 0.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander19 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino1,493 | 2.6%

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.

American6,500 reported responses
English5,378 reported responses
Irish3,510 reported responses
German2,154 reported responses
Scotch-Irish756 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$62,226

Employment rate50.0%

Typical home value$121,243

Typical rentNot published

Mortgage access58.6

Migration opportunity17.3

Commute under 30 minutes76.9%

Poverty rate29.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
39301	49.8	77.1	33.2	47.0	47.2	40.4
39305	50.3	59.4	39.5	58.0	50.6	46.4
39307	49.3	93.7	29.0	37.9	44.8	31.3
39309	Not published	99.1	Not published	Not published	37.1	56.3