Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 62,515 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #73 of 129165.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #53173.0100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #41257.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #40774.1100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #81135.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #12281.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 189,720 | 15.5%

18 to 2415,253 | 24.4%

25 to 347,377 | 11.8%

35 to 5411,839 | 18.9%

55 to 646,745 | 10.8%

65 and older11,581 | 18.5%

Marital landscape

Married24,406 | 43.9%

Never married25,194 | 45.3%

Divorced3,069 | 5.5%

Separated638 | 1.1%

Widowed2,337 | 4.2%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White41,653 | 66.6%

Black or African American6,382 | 10.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native168 | 0.3%

Asian6,509 | 10.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander11 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino6,079 | 9.7%

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.

English9,424 reported responses
German6,734 reported responses
Irish6,348 reported responses
Italian3,296 reported responses
American2,577 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$90,581

Employment rate55.0%

Typical home value$732,367

Typical rent$1,634

Mortgage access69.0

Migration opportunity62.2

Commute under 30 minutes79.4%

Poverty rate10.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
27514	67.6	96.3	52.6	69.2	32.6	75.3
27517	62.1	45.1	62.5	79.5	38.0	87.9