Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Des Plaines, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 88,850 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #954 of 129156.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #100552.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #50855.5100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #50171.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #89034.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #64765.8100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1819,411 | 21.8%

18 to 246,235 | 7.0%

25 to 3411,032 | 12.4%

35 to 5422,921 | 25.8%

55 to 6412,845 | 14.5%

65 and older16,406 | 18.5%

Marital landscape

Married40,975 | 55.0%

Never married22,017 | 29.5%

Divorced6,046 | 8.1%

Separated1,308 | 1.8%

Widowed4,170 | 5.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White46,240 | 52.0%

Black or African American4,026 | 4.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,220 | 1.4%

Asian15,961 | 18.0%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino21,597 | 24.3%

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.

Polish10,397 reported responses
German7,863 reported responses
Irish5,330 reported responses
Italian4,816 reported responses
English2,613 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$85,602

Employment rate62.0%

Typical home value$384,171

Typical rent$2,081

Mortgage access63.1

Migration opportunity0.9

Commute under 30 minutes56.7%

Poverty rate8.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
60016	54.1	47.7	53.9	71.0	34.0	64.7
60018	60.6	63.5	58.9	73.7	35.7	68.1