Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Columbia, Missouri

A city-market profile built from 5 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 159,304 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #251 of 129162.6Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #21883.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #53255.199.7% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #99160.999.9% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #23441.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #74863.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1830,944 | 19.4%

18 to 2433,711 | 21.2%

25 to 3423,294 | 14.6%

35 to 5436,156 | 22.7%

55 to 6415,068 | 9.5%

65 and older20,131 | 12.6%

Marital landscape

Married54,472 | 40.4%

Never married62,432 | 46.3%

Divorced11,932 | 8.8%

Separated1,269 | 0.9%

Widowed4,815 | 3.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White118,867 | 74.6%

Black or African American18,036 | 11.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native166 | 0.1%

Asian8,970 | 5.6%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander100 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino7,522 | 4.7%

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.

German36,897 reported responses
English23,395 reported responses
Irish19,368 reported responses
American8,095 reported responses
Italian5,005 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$75,176

Employment rate64.0%

Typical home value$335,369

Typical rent$1,408

Mortgage access70.6

Migration opportunity4.9

Commute under 30 minutes87.7%

Poverty rate19.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
65201	58.4	98.1	40.8	47.5	34.1	57.0
65202	62.3	75.4	58.8	65.7	44.4	61.2
65203	66.0	76.7	63.9	68.2	44.2	70.0
65215	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	6.2	52.5
65216	Not published	99.6	Not published	0.0	26.8	47.6