Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Bowie, Maryland

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 105,324 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #70 of 129165.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #63569.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #25460.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #1286.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #40238.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #47770.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1821,948 | 20.8%

18 to 248,390 | 8.0%

25 to 3410,334 | 9.8%

35 to 5428,062 | 26.6%

55 to 6417,270 | 16.4%

65 and older19,320 | 18.3%

Marital landscape

Married44,352 | 49.8%

Never married30,037 | 33.7%

Divorced8,554 | 9.6%

Separated1,359 | 1.5%

Widowed4,778 | 5.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White20,859 | 19.8%

Black or African American68,167 | 64.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native319 | 0.3%

Asian3,301 | 3.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander7 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino8,637 | 8.2%

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.

German5,222 reported responses
Irish5,137 reported responses
Nigerian4,970 reported responses
English4,009 reported responses
American3,688 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$106,450

Employment rate67.0%

Typical home value$540,888

Typical rent$2,531

Mortgage access56.2

Migration opportunity2.5

Commute under 30 minutes38.9%

Poverty rate3.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
20715	68.6	79.2	61.6	86.0	37.5	74.4
20716	66.6	79.1	60.1	81.6	36.0	70.8
20720	63.6	59.6	61.3	90.2	41.1	68.4
20721	63.0	60.7	60.4	88.2	38.9	68.2