Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 78,275 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #935 of 129156.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #14087.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #107143.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #120555.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #103533.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #111552.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1816,809 | 21.5%

18 to 248,931 | 11.4%

25 to 3410,352 | 13.2%

35 to 5418,775 | 24.0%

55 to 649,258 | 11.8%

65 and older14,150 | 18.1%

Marital landscape

Married24,907 | 37.8%

Never married28,344 | 43.0%

Divorced6,729 | 10.2%

Separated1,284 | 1.9%

Widowed4,676 | 7.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White52,368 | 66.9%

Black or African American6,741 | 8.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native131 | 0.2%

Asian1,086 | 1.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander236 | 0.3%

Hispanic or Latino19,068 | 24.4%

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.

Irish12,292 reported responses
Polish11,718 reported responses
Italian8,799 reported responses
German8,429 reported responses
English3,256 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$66,743

Employment rate56.0%

Typical home value$171,575

Typical rent$1,283

Mortgage access65.4

Migration opportunity51.5

Commute under 30 minutes79.7%

Poverty rate20.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
18701	51.1	98.5	28.0	43.4	22.7	48.0
18702	57.4	88.6	43.5	56.2	33.4	54.9
18705	55.5	85.6	44.5	55.6	33.8	47.8
18706	55.5	80.9	45.8	55.3	34.7	51.9