Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Plainfield, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 77,997 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #484 of 129160.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #8590.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #92646.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #66067.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #74235.7100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #109653.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1821,263 | 27.3%

18 to 247,770 | 10.0%

25 to 3411,846 | 15.2%

35 to 5420,088 | 25.8%

55 to 649,313 | 11.9%

65 and older7,717 | 9.9%

Marital landscape

Married24,781 | 39.9%

Never married28,208 | 45.4%

Divorced5,130 | 8.3%

Separated1,833 | 3.0%

Widowed2,165 | 3.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White9,712 | 12.4%

Black or African American23,661 | 30.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native414 | 0.5%

Asian1,414 | 1.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino44,038 | 56.5%

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.

American2,399 reported responses
Jamaican1,682 reported responses
African1,166 reported responses
Italian1,118 reported responses
Trinidadian and Tobagonian934 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$83,598

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$514,907

Typical rent$2,111

Mortgage access53.0

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes52.6%

Poverty rate14.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
07060	59.2	91.0	45.5	65.1	34.5	50.9
07062	62.8	86.7	50.1	74.3	37.5	58.9
07063	62.0	91.1	48.5	70.6	37.9	54.1