Follow Your Heart Index city profile

East Orange, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 69,834 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1060 of 129154.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #3393.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #126334.7100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #105459.3100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #124529.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #122545.8100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1815,088 | 21.6%

18 to 244,786 | 6.9%

25 to 3412,281 | 17.6%

35 to 5418,094 | 25.9%

55 to 648,780 | 12.6%

65 and older10,805 | 15.5%

Marital landscape

Married18,638 | 31.3%

Never married28,124 | 47.2%

Divorced6,865 | 11.5%

Separated2,161 | 3.6%

Widowed3,795 | 6.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White1,213 | 1.7%

Black or African American55,196 | 79.0%

American Indian and Alaska Native146 | 0.2%

Asian882 | 1.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander48 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino7,731 | 11.1%

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.

Jamaican6,328 reported responses
Haitian3,828 reported responses
Guyanese2,888 reported responses
American2,035 reported responses
Nigerian1,651 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$70,866

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$480,959

Typical rent$2,096

Mortgage access48.2

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes47.8%

Poverty rate16.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
07017	53.4	92.6	33.3	59.1	30.0	43.0
07018	56.0	94.0	36.7	59.5	29.5	49.8