Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 89,086 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #931 of 129156.4Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #44975.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #92547.097.8% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #120755.197.8% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #23341.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #100056.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1819,524 | 21.9%

18 to 2414,426 | 16.2%

25 to 3414,064 | 15.8%

35 to 5418,981 | 21.3%

55 to 649,158 | 10.3%

65 and older12,933 | 14.5%

Marital landscape

Married31,913 | 42.9%

Never married30,082 | 40.5%

Divorced7,286 | 9.8%

Separated1,749 | 2.4%

Widowed3,316 | 4.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White45,509 | 51.1%

Black or African American36,398 | 40.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native150 | 0.2%

Asian915 | 1.0%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander165 | 0.2%

Hispanic or Latino4,249 | 4.8%

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.

English9,322 reported responses
American8,616 reported responses
Irish6,501 reported responses
German6,139 reported responses
French (except Basque)2,166 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$68,321

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$211,729

Typical rent$1,242

Mortgage access62.3

Migration opportunity18.9

Commute under 30 minutes79.4%

Poverty rate22.7%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
39401	54.7	93.3	38.7	44.4	37.9	46.5
39402	57.5	56.8	54.8	65.4	45.4	65.0
39406	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	9.0	81.4