Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Paducah, Kentucky

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 60,528 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1016 of 129155.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #79164.0100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #88047.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #103159.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #8546.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #98457.1100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,190 | 21.8%

18 to 244,504 | 7.4%

25 to 347,555 | 12.5%

35 to 5415,153 | 25.0%

55 to 647,838 | 12.9%

65 and older12,288 | 20.3%

Marital landscape

Married23,766 | 47.2%

Never married14,863 | 29.5%

Divorced6,797 | 13.5%

Separated785 | 1.6%

Widowed4,121 | 8.2%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White49,146 | 81.2%

Black or African American6,523 | 10.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native72 | 0.1%

Asian538 | 0.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander72 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino1,818 | 3.0%

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.

English11,914 reported responses
German6,836 reported responses
American6,632 reported responses
Irish4,945 reported responses
Italian1,188 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$71,844

Employment rate57.0%

Typical home value$192,787

Typical rent$1,362

Mortgage access59.8

Migration opportunity46.0

Commute under 30 minutes83.7%

Poverty rate16.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
42001	56.8	59.4	52.9	62.8	42.8	64.6
42003	53.7	68.7	42.8	57.0	49.2	49.3