Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Buffalo, New York

A city-market profile built from 27 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 526,427 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #810 of 129157.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #14786.9100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #90447.599.8% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #114657.199.8% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #119031.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #109553.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18109,716 | 20.8%

18 to 2454,050 | 10.3%

25 to 3485,738 | 16.3%

35 to 54124,985 | 23.7%

55 to 6465,394 | 12.4%

65 and older86,544 | 16.4%

Marital landscape

Married162,830 | 36.7%

Never married199,371 | 44.9%

Divorced48,388 | 10.9%

Separated8,670 | 2.0%

Widowed24,699 | 5.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White317,121 | 60.2%

Black or African American110,233 | 20.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,837 | 0.3%

Asian37,353 | 7.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander76 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino47,253 | 9.0%

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.

German82,523 reported responses
Irish71,073 reported responses
Italian64,850 reported responses
Polish62,754 reported responses
English28,659 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$69,466

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$237,165

Typical rent$1,389

Mortgage access66.1

Migration opportunity6.4

Commute under 30 minutes81.8%

Poverty rate19.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

Scores remain governed at ZIP level. Select a ZIP to examine it in the comparison workspace.

ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
14201	52.4	97.8	32.5	42.1	24.3	49.2
14202	61.9	96.5	49.2	59.3	26.2	63.1
14203	58.7	99.0	46.8	50.4	21.9	57.0
14204	47.7	96.5	27.6	37.4	24.6	36.8
14206	54.3	91.4	42.9	51.8	30.2	42.3
14207	51.9	94.8	34.5	42.1	29.6	43.9
14208	52.8	97.1	35.2	50.3	30.4	38.0
14209	56.9	95.8	38.4	55.7	26.2	55.0
14210	55.3	94.2	41.6	52.3	29.4	45.7
14211	47.5	93.7	28.3	41.2	30.4	31.1
14212	45.3	84.5	31.3	43.0	30.6	26.4
14213	57.1	96.1	43.9	53.1	30.1	48.3
14214	59.5	96.4	45.0	54.9	29.0	57.7
14215	51.3	95.8	33.8	45.7	30.4	37.3
14216	62.7	92.6	55.2	62.2	30.5	59.1
14217	62.6	83.7	59.0	64.5	32.5	62.0
14218	52.4	85.0	40.1	53.5	31.5	41.6
14219	61.6	83.1	55.7	66.1	33.7	59.7
14220	62.2	86.8	58.9	63.3	33.7	56.4
14222	66.6	96.1	58.0	67.1	29.4	67.7
14223	62.2	70.7	64.4	68.8	35.5	64.0
14224	60.7	68.4	58.5	69.6	34.5	66.9
14225	61.0	83.0	54.9	62.7	32.7	61.0
14226	64.6	78.2	61.7	69.0	34.6	70.6
14227	57.2	63.6	56.9	66.4	33.3	60.3
14228	61.4	90.9	47.8	62.7	31.4	63.1
14260	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	3.8	55.8