Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Santa Maria, California

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 145,655 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #528 of 129160.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #42876.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #86748.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #65868.0100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #10145.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #90859.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1843,064 | 29.6%

18 to 2417,564 | 12.1%

25 to 3418,698 | 12.8%

35 to 5433,497 | 23.0%

55 to 6413,710 | 9.4%

65 and older19,122 | 13.1%

Marital landscape

Married52,766 | 46.8%

Never married44,202 | 39.2%

Divorced8,355 | 7.4%

Separated2,008 | 1.8%

Widowed5,441 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White35,811 | 24.6%

Black or African American1,557 | 1.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native4,634 | 3.2%

Asian5,849 | 4.0%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander55 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino102,378 | 70.3%

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.

German7,341 reported responses
English6,582 reported responses
Irish6,456 reported responses
American2,992 reported responses
Italian2,612 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$83,954

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$641,707

Typical rent$2,387

Mortgage access60.4

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes71.5%

Poverty rate15.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
93454	60.9	84.7	44.9	65.7	45.0	59.6
93455	60.7	53.3	55.8	76.5	43.7	76.8
93458	59.3	89.1	44.8	63.3	47.4	46.2