Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 59,301 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #673 of 129158.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #45775.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #95646.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #88163.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #29340.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #69564.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1812,863 | 21.7%

18 to 245,091 | 8.6%

25 to 349,638 | 16.3%

35 to 5414,371 | 24.2%

55 to 647,350 | 12.4%

65 and older9,988 | 16.8%

Marital landscape

Married23,087 | 46.4%

Never married16,533 | 33.2%

Divorced6,750 | 13.6%

Separated1,033 | 2.1%

Widowed2,407 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White37,638 | 63.5%

Black or African American7,116 | 12.0%

American Indian and Alaska Native187 | 0.3%

Asian2,473 | 4.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander166 | 0.3%

Hispanic or Latino10,816 | 18.2%

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.

German5,918 reported responses
English5,584 reported responses
Irish5,412 reported responses
American3,257 reported responses
Italian2,213 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$75,667

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$309,428

Typical rent$1,782

Mortgage access63.8

Migration opportunity96.5

Commute under 30 minutes71.5%

Poverty rate14.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
32547	59.1	76.4	45.5	64.3	40.4	64.5
32548	58.4	74.0	47.5	61.6	39.4	64.6