Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Tacoma, Washington

A city-market profile built from 16 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 273,461 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #532 of 129160.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #38977.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #74750.490.9% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #66367.999.3% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #95334.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #74463.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1856,123 | 20.5%

18 to 2430,654 | 11.2%

25 to 3450,425 | 18.4%

35 to 5469,631 | 25.5%

55 to 6429,202 | 10.7%

65 and older37,426 | 13.7%

Marital landscape

Married101,784 | 44.3%

Never married87,408 | 38.0%

Divorced27,466 | 11.9%

Separated4,223 | 1.8%

Widowed9,004 | 3.9%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White153,815 | 56.2%

Black or African American29,996 | 11.0%

American Indian and Alaska Native3,177 | 1.2%

Asian24,969 | 9.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander4,095 | 1.5%

Hispanic or Latino40,758 | 14.9%

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.

German36,781 reported responses
English25,892 reported responses
Irish24,461 reported responses
Norwegian10,402 reported responses
American9,051 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$82,137

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$505,921

Typical rent$1,814

Mortgage access67.6

Migration opportunity53.8

Commute under 30 minutes63.1%

Poverty rate12.6%

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
98402	58.0	97.2	36.8	55.4	22.8	63.6
98403	65.3	84.4	58.9	72.6	30.1	70.3
98404	58.9	80.9	48.2	67.3	35.9	55.8
98405	62.0	87.4	48.0	63.6	31.7	69.4
98406	63.5	71.4	58.4	74.8	33.9	73.7
98407	57.1	48.3	55.5	76.8	34.4	72.6
98408	59.7	76.1	50.0	70.5	35.0	61.8
98409	62.1	92.2	46.8	64.1	31.7	65.0
98416	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	9.0	77.5
98418	60.8	81.2	52.7	69.5	32.1	60.4
98421	Not published	99.0	Not published	31.8	13.4	45.7
98422	56.5	39.0	60.2	81.3	38.5	68.6
98433	Not published	88.3	Not published	60.1	40.6	58.3
98444	57.7	87.9	44.1	61.7	33.5	51.8
98447	Not published	99.8	Not published	Not published	9.3	74.5
98465	58.3	75.9	46.7	66.2	31.8	64.9