Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Gary, Indiana

A city-market profile built from 7 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 72,702 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1263 of 129148.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #4892.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #128429.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #129043.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #129226.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #128735.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1820,375 | 28.0%

18 to 245,654 | 7.8%

25 to 348,437 | 11.6%

35 to 5416,384 | 22.5%

55 to 648,485 | 11.7%

65 and older13,367 | 18.4%

Marital landscape

Married16,788 | 29.0%

Never married26,072 | 45.0%

Divorced7,963 | 13.7%

Separated2,279 | 3.9%

Widowed4,884 | 8.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White10,145 | 13.9%

Black or African American51,995 | 71.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native87 | 0.1%

Asian255 | 0.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander7 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino8,075 | 11.1%

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.

German2,742 reported responses
Irish2,364 reported responses
English1,535 reported responses
American1,146 reported responses
Polish890 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$56,060

Employment rate46.0%

Typical home value$92,775

Typical rent$1,294

Mortgage access55.2

Migration opportunity52.9

Commute under 30 minutes62.7%

Poverty rate32.4%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
46402	46.0	95.1	25.4	32.9	24.2	36.4
46403	50.2	87.8	31.1	50.9	26.6	44.2
46404	49.5	93.2	30.2	46.5	28.3	37.1
46406	48.2	94.4	29.0	37.3	27.1	38.5
46407	43.5	94.9	24.5	36.1	23.5	23.6
46408	48.5	89.6	31.7	46.0	27.5	35.8
46409	49.2	95.3	33.7	45.6	28.3	29.2