Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lowell, Massachusetts

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 118,368 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #461 of 129160.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #9089.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #90647.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #81464.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #114931.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #90959.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1825,649 | 21.7%

18 to 2414,089 | 11.9%

25 to 3418,275 | 15.4%

35 to 5430,224 | 25.5%

55 to 6415,171 | 12.8%

65 and older14,960 | 12.6%

Marital landscape

Married37,359 | 37.8%

Never married44,859 | 45.4%

Divorced10,655 | 10.8%

Separated1,844 | 1.9%

Widowed4,024 | 4.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White54,965 | 46.4%

Black or African American12,173 | 10.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native46 | 0.0%

Asian26,286 | 22.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander10 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino23,687 | 20.0%

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.

Irish14,947 reported responses
Italian6,523 reported responses
French (except Basque)5,359 reported responses
English4,994 reported responses
Portuguese4,861 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$80,050

Employment rate64.0%

Typical home value$525,528

Typical rent$2,281

Mortgage access62.6

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes54.7%

Poverty rate17.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
01850	55.9	93.3	41.7	61.7	33.8	39.2
01851	61.4	86.2	50.1	67.3	33.4	61.4
01852	61.3	86.1	49.0	65.8	31.6	64.9
01854	61.7	96.0	45.9	62.9	29.3	62.2