Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Columbia, Maryland

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 99,756 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #27 of 129167.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #54972.2100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #18362.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #14080.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #59136.8100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #20978.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1820,763 | 20.8%

18 to 248,529 | 8.5%

25 to 3413,921 | 14.0%

35 to 5426,561 | 26.6%

55 to 6412,082 | 12.1%

65 and older17,900 | 17.9%

Marital landscape

Married41,107 | 49.1%

Never married28,368 | 33.9%

Divorced8,894 | 10.6%

Separated1,311 | 1.6%

Widowed4,009 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White44,709 | 44.8%

Black or African American29,635 | 29.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native261 | 0.3%

Asian9,908 | 9.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander30 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino10,562 | 10.6%

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.

German10,905 reported responses
Irish9,693 reported responses
English8,644 reported responses
Italian4,871 reported responses
American3,204 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$99,552

Employment rate66.0%

Typical home value$552,682

Typical rent$2,119

Mortgage access66.2

Migration opportunity2.0

Commute under 30 minutes58.0%

Poverty rate7.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
21044	66.1	67.6	63.0	82.4	36.6	78.0
21045	66.1	73.8	60.5	77.5	36.8	77.0
21046	72.3	81.4	68.9	84.5	37.5	82.2