Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Germantown, Maryland

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 99,113 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #142 of 129164.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #59670.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #27060.6100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #19479.2100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #55237.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #53569.0100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1822,545 | 22.7%

18 to 249,032 | 9.1%

25 to 3413,563 | 13.7%

35 to 5427,669 | 27.9%

55 to 6413,865 | 14.0%

65 and older12,439 | 12.6%

Marital landscape

Married42,848 | 51.5%

Never married28,701 | 34.5%

Divorced6,673 | 8.0%

Separated1,887 | 2.3%

Widowed3,028 | 3.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White28,145 | 28.4%

Black or African American26,041 | 26.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native319 | 0.3%

Asian21,131 | 21.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino21,317 | 21.5%

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.

German6,475 reported responses
English5,230 reported responses
Irish4,902 reported responses
Italian2,375 reported responses
American2,294 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$97,396

Employment rate68.0%

Typical home value$517,664

Typical rent$1,987

Mortgage access62.0

Migration opportunity1.6

Commute under 30 minutes50.9%

Poverty rate8.4%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
20841	58.5	45.8	57.4	88.5	40.9	66.3
20874	64.4	72.7	61.1	78.0	36.6	69.0
20876	65.3	75.0	60.7	78.6	37.0	70.0