Bring your questions. Keep your heart in the conversation.

It is the official 0-to-100 whole-life score for exploring whether a place may support the life you hope to build. It combines Partner Availability at 25%, Settlement Feasibility at 25%, Economic Capacity at 15%, Relationship Environment at 15%, and Opportunity Strength at 20%. All five component scores are required.

No. Love may start the conversation, but a sustainable move also touches work, income, housing, mobility, community, and long-term possibility. Follow Your Heart helps you hold those questions together without assuming that every visitor has the same reason for moving.

The Index gives you an overall direction, while each component explains why a place rises and where its tradeoffs remain. A city may rank well overall while still presenting a housing, financial, social, or relationship challenge that matters to your decision.

The approved model gives 40% to relationship-facing conditions through Partner Availability and Relationship Environment, and 60% to the practical foundation through Settlement Feasibility, Economic Capacity, and Opportunity Strength. It is designed for moves involving love, career, homeownership, affordability, or a fresh start rather than romance alone.

It helps you explore where the adult relationship pool may be more open to a new chapter. The governed score emphasizes never-married adults and gives partial weight to divorced adults. Separated and widowed populations remain context. It does not measure chemistry, character, or whether a particular person will find love.

It asks whether daily life can support the move after the excitement settles. The score combines economic capacity at 30%, employment at 20%, housing affordability at 25%, housing and mortgage access at 15%, and mobility and commute conditions at 10%.

It helps you consider whether local financial conditions may give your household room to breathe, plan, and recover from the cost of moving. It uses the governed income and financial-capacity measures published in the Relationship Intelligence ZIP Story.

It describes broader demographic and community conditions associated with relationship formation. Think of it as social context, not a verdict on a city and never a judgment about the people who live there.

It asks whether the move might open more than one door. The score brings together governed economic, housing, employment, mobility, and migration signals that matter to career growth and a stable new beginning.

Yes, as an exploration tool. Settlement Feasibility includes housing affordability plus housing and mortgage access, while city profiles show available home-value, rent, and mortgage-access context. Always confirm current listings, lending terms, insurance, taxes, and neighborhood conditions before buying.

Only when you choose to explore community representation. The broad community page can rank places by population count or population share. Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity are not inputs to the Follow Your Heart Index or its five components, and they never define the worth or relationship quality of a place.

Yes. Ethnicity & Heritage Discovery lets you search the complete published community list, including communities such as Jamaican, Nigerian, Colombian, German, Polish, and Italian when they are available in the governed source. Each community has a dedicated Top 10 page plus Top 100 views ranked by estimated community population or local population share.

That is the Census source language. On the public-facing pages, we use ethnicity, heritage, and community because those words are more natural to many visitors. People may report more than one ancestry, so community counts can overlap and should not be added together.

These rankings group governed ZIP areas assigned to the same primary city and state. They are transparent ZIP-based market rollups, not official municipal-boundary population estimates.

No. Sponsorship is paid and clearly labeled. A ZIP, city, or category sponsor cannot change a score, rank, demographic result, eligibility rule, methodology, or editorial conclusion. Sponsor applications are reviewed separately from the governed data publication.

No. A score can help you ask better questions; it cannot know your heart, your relationships, your career offer, your finances, or your lived experience. Use it to narrow possibilities, then visit, listen, verify current conditions, and decide at your own pace.