Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Decatur, Alabama

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 67,628 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1081 of 129154.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #93757.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #77350.0100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #94761.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #10645.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #98956.9100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1816,387 | 24.2%

18 to 245,368 | 7.9%

25 to 348,300 | 12.3%

35 to 5416,635 | 24.6%

55 to 649,044 | 13.4%

65 and older11,894 | 17.6%

Marital landscape

Married26,663 | 48.1%

Never married16,628 | 30.0%

Divorced6,665 | 12.0%

Separated1,308 | 2.4%

Widowed4,223 | 7.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White42,035 | 62.2%

Black or African American14,409 | 21.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native730 | 1.1%

Asian505 | 0.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander252 | 0.4%

Hispanic or Latino10,948 | 16.2%

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.

American8,309 reported responses
English7,928 reported responses
Irish5,397 reported responses
German3,943 reported responses
Scottish892 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$72,333

Employment rate56.0%

Typical home value$223,052

Typical rent$1,109

Mortgage access63.5

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes70.7%

Poverty rate12.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
35601	56.1	82.0	43.3	54.1	43.3	50.7
35603	52.2	30.0	57.3	70.2	47.7	63.6