Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Cary, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 169,771 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #319 of 129161.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #119736.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #3568.1100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #10582.0100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #29540.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #2087.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1839,175 | 23.1%

18 to 2412,166 | 7.2%

25 to 3420,037 | 11.8%

35 to 5451,671 | 30.4%

55 to 6421,849 | 12.9%

65 and older24,873 | 14.7%

Marital landscape

Married86,048 | 61.1%

Never married36,855 | 26.2%

Divorced10,878 | 7.7%

Separated1,888 | 1.3%

Widowed5,111 | 3.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White100,373 | 59.1%

Black or African American13,403 | 7.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native246 | 0.1%

Asian34,287 | 20.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander103 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino16,300 | 9.6%

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.

English24,519 reported responses
German19,989 reported responses
Irish14,065 reported responses
Italian9,501 reported responses
American8,304 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$100,166

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$631,484

Typical rent$1,661

Mortgage access69.6

Migration opportunity96.9

Commute under 30 minutes74.0%

Poverty rate5.7%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
27511	64.8	61.9	62.5	74.7	35.8	85.8
27513	63.5	39.6	70.7	81.2	37.7	90.6
27518	57.0	23.1	63.9	80.1	36.6	88.8
27519	60.7	25.9	70.3	86.6	44.5	84.9