Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Helena, Montana

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 63,145 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #454 of 129160.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #100852.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #40757.399.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #58169.699.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #1451.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #29475.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,615 | 21.6%

18 to 244,804 | 7.6%

25 to 347,742 | 12.3%

35 to 5415,778 | 25.0%

55 to 648,541 | 13.5%

65 and older12,665 | 20.1%

Marital landscape

Married26,859 | 51.2%

Never married14,444 | 27.6%

Divorced7,636 | 14.6%

Separated412 | 0.8%

Widowed3,070 | 5.9%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White56,445 | 89.4%

Black or African American373 | 0.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native932 | 1.5%

Asian335 | 0.5%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino2,605 | 4.1%

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.

German15,564 reported responses
Irish10,497 reported responses
English10,025 reported responses
Norwegian4,112 reported responses
American3,968 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$82,034

Employment rate61.0%

Typical home value$477,031

Typical rent$1,445

Mortgage access69.2

Migration opportunity97.8

Commute under 30 minutes88.1%

Poverty rate8.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
59601	64.9	73.4	55.5	65.9	49.6	76.9
59602	56.0	28.7	59.1	73.5	54.7	74.0
59625	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	2.8	80.7