Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Springfield, Illinois

A city-market profile built from 6 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 97,236 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #948 of 129156.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #68367.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #74350.798.8% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #100860.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #32139.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #94358.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1820,123 | 20.7%

18 to 248,411 | 8.7%

25 to 3411,977 | 12.3%

35 to 5423,249 | 23.9%

55 to 6413,619 | 14.0%

65 and older19,857 | 20.4%

Marital landscape

Married34,568 | 42.3%

Never married29,599 | 36.2%

Divorced10,579 | 13.0%

Separated1,027 | 1.3%

Widowed5,909 | 7.2%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White69,840 | 71.8%

Black or African American17,206 | 17.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native48 | 0.1%

Asian2,326 | 2.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander34 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino3,046 | 3.1%

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.

German17,470 reported responses
Irish10,887 reported responses
English9,996 reported responses
American5,436 reported responses
Italian4,701 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,871

Employment rate53.0%

Typical home value$183,979

Typical rent$1,162

Mortgage access71.6

Migration opportunity6.2

Commute under 30 minutes89.4%

Poverty rate18.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

Scores remain governed at ZIP level. Select a ZIP to examine it in the comparison workspace.

ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
62701	Not published	98.6	Not published	39.1	25.3	51.7
62702	55.8	89.4	42.9	51.4	36.6	47.5
62703	55.5	92.6	39.4	47.3	36.3	49.7
62707	56.7	47.0	61.6	72.1	43.4	60.9
62711	56.6	18.8	65.6	81.8	45.7	82.1
62712	58.9	30.3	71.5	80.7	45.2	72.5