Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lake Charles, Louisiana

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 133,538 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1102 of 129153.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #76364.9100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #77250.0100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #99360.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #23041.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #116649.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1832,050 | 24.0%

18 to 2412,013 | 9.0%

25 to 3419,153 | 14.3%

35 to 5431,989 | 24.0%

55 to 6416,453 | 12.3%

65 and older21,880 | 16.4%

Marital landscape

Married52,062 | 47.8%

Never married35,639 | 32.7%

Divorced11,865 | 10.9%

Separated2,500 | 2.3%

Widowed6,951 | 6.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White77,519 | 58.0%

Black or African American42,463 | 31.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native528 | 0.4%

Asian2,510 | 1.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander76 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino7,249 | 5.4%

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.

French (except Basque)13,974 reported responses
English10,156 reported responses
American9,228 reported responses
German8,565 reported responses
Irish8,024 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$74,791

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$202,824

Typical rent$1,116

Mortgage access60.8

Migration opportunity5.4

Commute under 30 minutes80.9%

Poverty rate18.6%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
70601	52.3	81.6	39.2	49.8	37.5	44.9
70605	61.3	57.9	65.9	71.0	44.0	65.5
70607	53.7	87.0	42.7	54.9	40.1	35.2
70611	46.5	15.4	57.5	73.8	44.5	52.4
70615	47.2	83.7	28.0	45.8	36.8	34.4