Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Valdosta, Georgia

A city-market profile built from 6 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 107,308 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1052 of 129154.6Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #38877.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #113141.999.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #121754.699.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #27540.3100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #111052.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1825,921 | 24.2%

18 to 2416,933 | 15.8%

25 to 3415,881 | 14.8%

35 to 5423,220 | 21.6%

55 to 6410,858 | 10.1%

65 and older14,495 | 13.5%

Marital landscape

Married37,053 | 42.6%

Never married34,243 | 39.3%

Divorced8,944 | 10.3%

Separated1,735 | 2.0%

Widowed5,094 | 5.9%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White52,044 | 48.5%

Black or African American42,243 | 39.4%

American Indian and Alaska Native354 | 0.3%

Asian2,146 | 2.0%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander97 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino7,976 | 7.4%

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.

English9,355 reported responses
American7,118 reported responses
Irish6,825 reported responses
German6,245 reported responses
Italian1,933 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$66,522

Employment rate53.0%

Typical home value$198,136

Typical rent$1,336

Mortgage access64.2

Migration opportunity66.3

Commute under 30 minutes82.5%

Poverty rate21.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
31601	53.2	89.6	35.4	45.0	37.7	47.5
31602	57.1	90.0	40.5	52.3	38.9	53.9
31605	56.2	56.7	52.2	67.4	44.5	61.1
31606	50.4	65.8	45.5	57.3	42.4	37.8
31636	48.5	53.2	40.3	59.9	43.8	47.7
31698	Not published	99.7	Not published	Not published	17.8	56.6