Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Raleigh, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 15 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 569,344 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #80 of 129165.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #44875.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #34258.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #54770.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #91534.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #20878.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18114,772 | 20.2%

18 to 2460,787 | 10.7%

25 to 3498,020 | 17.2%

35 to 54155,336 | 27.3%

55 to 6464,901 | 11.4%

65 and older75,528 | 13.3%

Marital landscape

Married220,692 | 45.7%

Never married188,938 | 39.1%

Divorced46,481 | 9.6%

Separated8,532 | 1.8%

Widowed18,048 | 3.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White318,014 | 55.9%

Black or African American136,828 | 24.0%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,642 | 0.3%

Asian27,371 | 4.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander96 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino69,499 | 12.2%

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.

English77,249 reported responses
German56,491 reported responses
Irish51,258 reported responses
American34,134 reported responses
Italian23,497 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$85,451

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$493,572

Typical rent$1,596

Mortgage access67.9

Migration opportunity89.3

Commute under 30 minutes68.9%

Poverty rate10.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
27601	64.0	97.6	48.5	61.0	27.0	71.5
27603	66.6	81.1	58.1	70.2	33.1	81.3
27604	63.2	85.9	51.5	64.7	32.7	71.1
27605	64.3	97.7	51.6	59.9	24.1	72.0
27606	65.6	94.2	54.4	63.0	29.2	73.2
27607	69.6	96.7	54.6	69.5	29.4	84.5
27608	63.5	34.8	70.2	87.1	38.9	92.0
27609	67.5	80.0	62.1	70.7	32.4	82.4
27610	62.6	89.6	48.4	62.0	34.4	68.1
27612	71.1	83.2	66.5	74.5	33.1	87.7
27613	60.9	39.9	70.1	80.7	40.3	76.2
27614	58.9	39.4	60.9	78.1	37.4	82.3
27615	64.4	50.6	66.5	78.2	37.1	89.4
27616	64.9	75.8	58.6	70.1	36.9	76.2
27617	71.5	84.2	69.4	78.2	37.0	78.9