Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Newark, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 310,602 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1198 of 129151.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #2993.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #128629.6100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #125352.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #125129.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #126141.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1876,985 | 24.8%

18 to 2432,298 | 10.4%

25 to 3447,425 | 15.3%

35 to 5484,990 | 27.4%

55 to 6435,323 | 11.4%

65 and older33,581 | 10.8%

Marital landscape

Married82,194 | 32.3%

Never married130,411 | 51.3%

Divorced21,495 | 8.4%

Separated8,687 | 3.4%

Widowed11,646 | 4.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White28,828 | 9.3%

Black or African American142,117 | 45.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,894 | 0.9%

Asian6,137 | 2.0%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander154 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino116,622 | 37.5%

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.

Brazilian14,839 reported responses
Portuguese8,403 reported responses
African7,518 reported responses
Nigerian7,001 reported responses
Haitian6,654 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$65,151

Employment rate56.0%

Typical home value$506,376

Typical rent$2,108

Mortgage access53.3

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes49.7%

Poverty rate23.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
07102	52.0	97.4	25.7	48.2	22.0	53.3
07103	52.3	96.7	26.4	52.0	28.7	47.0
07104	50.8	90.2	28.9	52.9	29.6	43.3
07105	55.5	91.5	37.9	57.2	32.1	48.6
07106	50.6	91.6	29.7	56.0	31.3	36.1
07107	49.4	94.2	29.1	51.2	30.3	32.1
07108	47.3	97.2	23.1	44.6	26.9	32.4
07112	53.5	96.3	31.0	55.9	29.3	44.3
07114	48.7	97.8	21.7	47.3	25.0	39.8