Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Albany, New York

A city-market profile built from 10 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 148,819 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #155 of 129163.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #7490.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #64452.595.4% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #79365.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #116531.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #57967.8100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1823,045 | 15.5%

18 to 2429,805 | 20.0%

25 to 3423,780 | 16.0%

35 to 5431,909 | 21.4%

55 to 6416,377 | 11.0%

65 and older23,903 | 16.1%

Marital landscape

Married44,074 | 33.4%

Never married68,616 | 52.0%

Divorced11,269 | 8.5%

Separated1,879 | 1.4%

Widowed6,237 | 4.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White88,445 | 59.4%

Black or African American28,541 | 19.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native277 | 0.2%

Asian12,964 | 8.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander95 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino13,480 | 9.1%

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.

Irish24,275 reported responses
Italian17,768 reported responses
German15,142 reported responses
English10,387 reported responses
Polish6,376 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$79,957

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$300,255

Typical rent$1,582

Mortgage access66.8

Migration opportunity44.7

Commute under 30 minutes81.9%

Poverty rate16.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
12202	55.4	98.1	36.9	49.5	29.9	48.7
12203	67.2	92.3	57.9	68.2	32.0	73.0
12205	66.7	78.6	61.9	72.8	35.6	76.7
12206	53.1	96.1	34.6	44.2	27.3	48.3
12207	59.4	98.3	50.2	48.4	22.6	58.2
12208	61.7	95.7	45.3	59.6	28.6	65.8
12209	65.4	84.9	60.1	73.2	36.3	63.6
12210	59.3	98.5	47.2	53.2	26.3	54.9
12211	71.7	79.8	63.8	84.9	39.7	85.4
12222	Not published	99.7	Not published	78.1	23.7	79.0