Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Boston, Massachusetts

A city-market profile built from 30 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 661,827 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #183 of 129163.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #4992.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #83448.898.5% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #68667.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #127028.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #55668.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18100,418 | 15.2%

18 to 2496,283 | 14.5%

25 to 34154,005 | 23.3%

35 to 54155,711 | 23.5%

55 to 6468,880 | 10.4%

65 and older86,530 | 13.1%

Marital landscape

Married192,278 | 32.6%

Never married321,227 | 54.4%

Divorced43,297 | 7.3%

Separated12,873 | 2.2%

Widowed20,784 | 3.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White291,558 | 44.0%

Black or African American135,970 | 20.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,990 | 0.3%

Asian68,606 | 10.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander455 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino128,097 | 19.4%

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.

Irish87,307 reported responses
Italian48,231 reported responses
English36,800 reported responses
German31,563 reported responses
Haitian19,202 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$84,500

Employment rate66.0%

Typical home value$902,534

Typical rent$3,327

Mortgage access64.7

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes49.3%

Poverty rate17.4%

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
02108	71.9	97.2	57.0	78.5	27.0	87.9
02109	75.0	94.9	66.0	82.7	28.3	90.4
02110	62.1	62.3	52.5	80.1	29.9	84.7
02111	62.3	92.0	45.1	62.5	26.3	73.4
02113	71.4	99.1	64.8	78.2	23.5	75.8
02114	74.4	94.6	68.5	78.3	27.4	88.7
02115	56.2	99.1	32.5	49.7	18.2	65.5
02116	69.0	96.2	55.5	71.9	25.3	82.3
02118	64.4	94.3	46.9	64.9	26.1	77.1
02119	54.2	96.3	30.7	51.8	25.7	54.1
02120	54.6	98.9	34.1	52.4	22.5	50.6
02121	49.5	93.8	27.2	51.5	31.1	34.4
02122	62.0	91.2	45.2	67.7	31.4	65.3
02124	60.3	92.5	43.8	65.1	34.2	56.4
02125	61.0	96.2	42.7	62.3	28.3	63.3
02126	56.2	93.3	38.2	62.4	33.3	44.8
02127	73.3	96.7	65.4	80.2	29.2	81.9
02128	66.0	92.7	54.0	67.9	30.2	73.3
02129	72.4	85.8	65.7	80.1	32.7	88.4
02130	71.6	90.4	63.4	78.6	31.1	83.6
02131	65.9	81.5	57.2	76.0	34.5	73.4
02132	62.0	52.6	63.2	81.4	35.0	78.2
02133	Not published	4.0	Not published	100.0	44.5	90.1
02134	62.1	98.6	46.1	63.9	23.3	64.0
02135	66.0	97.4	52.2	67.0	25.3	73.7
02136	63.1	88.8	48.3	71.2	34.6	64.6
02163	Not published	98.7	Not published	57.6	25.1	51.3
02199	Not published	94.1	Not published	83.0	29.4	82.1
02210	Not published	94.0	Not published	89.3	29.2	91.5
02215	57.6	99.3	34.1	56.7	18.2	65.0