Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lakewood, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 1 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 139,149 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1252 of 129149.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #91758.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #125835.1100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #109358.4100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #87734.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #93858.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1869,281 | 49.8%

18 to 2412,811 | 9.2%

25 to 3416,599 | 11.9%

35 to 5422,072 | 15.9%

55 to 645,844 | 4.2%

65 and older12,542 | 9.0%

Marital landscape

Married44,948 | 56.8%

Never married26,140 | 33.0%

Divorced3,725 | 4.7%

Separated772 | 1.0%

Widowed3,573 | 4.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White118,906 | 85.5%

Black or African American2,411 | 1.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,184 | 0.8%

Asian883 | 0.6%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander103 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino15,223 | 10.9%

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.

American25,561 reported responses
Polish7,070 reported responses
European6,747 reported responses
German4,344 reported responses
Irish3,625 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$74,802

Employment rate53.0%

Typical home value$742,548

Typical rent$2,312

Mortgage access61.9

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes74.8%

Poverty rate24.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
08701	49.1	58.5	35.1	58.4	34.6	58.7