Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Brookline, Massachusetts

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 76,871 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #8 of 129170.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #12487.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #28060.3100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #15980.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #110632.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #5384.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1813,011 | 16.9%

18 to 2414,073 | 18.3%

25 to 3412,919 | 16.8%

35 to 5417,145 | 22.3%

55 to 647,628 | 9.9%

65 and older12,095 | 15.7%

Marital landscape

Married28,840 | 43.5%

Never married30,466 | 46.0%

Divorced3,721 | 5.6%

Separated227 | 0.3%

Widowed3,029 | 4.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White51,731 | 67.3%

Black or African American2,708 | 3.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native46 | 0.1%

Asian14,443 | 18.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander11 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino4,860 | 6.3%

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.

Irish8,711 reported responses
English6,141 reported responses
German5,847 reported responses
Italian4,747 reported responses
Russian3,419 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$98,895

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$1,416,129

Typical rent$4,236

Mortgage access68.8

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes56.8%

Poverty rate8.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
02445	71.3	86.9	62.7	80.9	32.7	84.5
02446	69.0	85.6	61.0	77.8	30.8	80.5
02467	72.5	91.6	56.9	82.7	34.1	89.2