Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Sterling Heights, Michigan

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 133,573 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1029 of 129155.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #92458.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #67951.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #69667.3100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #102433.3100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #77462.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1825,878 | 19.4%

18 to 2411,256 | 8.4%

25 to 3419,792 | 14.8%

35 to 5432,808 | 24.6%

55 to 6418,105 | 13.6%

65 and older25,734 | 19.3%

Marital landscape

Married59,341 | 52.3%

Never married35,277 | 31.1%

Divorced9,682 | 8.5%

Separated1,074 | 0.9%

Widowed8,145 | 7.2%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White106,752 | 79.9%

Black or African American10,172 | 7.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native175 | 0.1%

Asian12,361 | 9.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander224 | 0.2%

Hispanic or Latino4,023 | 3.0%

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.

German16,825 reported responses
Polish14,981 reported responses
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac12,796 reported responses
Italian9,695 reported responses
Irish9,101 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$80,242

Employment rate57.0%

Typical home value$323,421

Typical rent$1,537

Mortgage access63.7

Migration opportunity9.1

Commute under 30 minutes65.4%

Poverty rate11.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
48310	54.1	63.1	48.4	65.1	34.3	56.8
48312	57.1	70.7	49.2	64.3	32.1	63.4
48313	54.7	42.1	59.0	72.2	34.1	67.5
48314	54.2	53.5	51.4	68.8	31.8	64.7