Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Charleston, West Virginia

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 81,531 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1100 of 129153.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #82962.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #81149.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #96061.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #17742.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #113151.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1816,414 | 20.1%

18 to 245,546 | 6.8%

25 to 3410,833 | 13.3%

35 to 5420,668 | 25.3%

55 to 6410,848 | 13.3%

65 and older17,222 | 21.1%

Marital landscape

Married32,614 | 47.2%

Never married20,600 | 29.8%

Divorced10,146 | 14.7%

Separated1,036 | 1.5%

Widowed4,668 | 6.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White68,556 | 84.1%

Black or African American5,522 | 6.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native63 | 0.1%

Asian1,543 | 1.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander43 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino1,418 | 1.7%

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.

English13,806 reported responses
Irish9,466 reported responses
German9,425 reported responses
American6,055 reported responses
Italian2,921 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,432

Employment rate55.0%

Typical home value$165,080

Typical rent$1,316

Mortgage access58.7

Migration opportunity11.9

Commute under 30 minutes80.9%

Poverty rate14.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
25301	50.9	96.1	29.6	38.9	30.6	45.2
25302	54.5	76.4	43.1	57.6	39.1	50.4
25304	62.5	79.1	53.4	67.1	42.0	65.0
25306	54.8	63.4	55.6	65.1	44.4	43.0
25311	53.8	73.2	42.2	56.6	41.1	51.5
25312	44.9	50.4	44.3	55.4	44.1	31.4
25313	50.9	37.8	53.0	66.4	44.5	57.6
25314	58.3	46.9	62.6	73.3	46.7	64.4
25387	49.0	83.8	34.7	43.5	39.5	34.8