Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Battle Creek, Michigan

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 91,590 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #864 of 129156.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #45275.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #90947.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #108458.6100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #8246.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #111752.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1821,710 | 23.7%

18 to 246,774 | 7.4%

25 to 3412,213 | 13.3%

35 to 5422,479 | 24.5%

55 to 6411,748 | 12.8%

65 and older16,666 | 18.2%

Marital landscape

Married32,937 | 43.9%

Never married25,130 | 33.5%

Divorced11,086 | 14.8%

Separated963 | 1.3%

Widowed4,975 | 6.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White65,653 | 71.7%

Black or African American10,374 | 11.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native326 | 0.4%

Asian3,137 | 3.4%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander58 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino6,290 | 6.9%

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.

German13,952 reported responses
English9,985 reported responses
Irish8,204 reported responses
American3,609 reported responses
Dutch2,780 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$69,085

Employment rate56.0%

Typical home value$176,196

Typical rent$1,212

Mortgage access63.2

Migration opportunity31.6

Commute under 30 minutes79.9%

Poverty rate15.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
49014	57.2	68.7	50.2	63.1	46.6	55.1
49015	59.5	71.7	54.1	63.4	47.5	56.9
49017	58.3	75.9	46.7	59.4	46.8	58.5
49037	51.9	88.0	36.0	46.5	43.2	37.4