Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Jackson, Mississippi

A city-market profile built from 12 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 147,918 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1167 of 129152.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #4592.3100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #122137.998.1% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #128646.1100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #122430.6100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #126641.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1835,725 | 24.2%

18 to 2415,899 | 10.7%

25 to 3422,626 | 15.3%

35 to 5434,274 | 23.2%

55 to 6417,071 | 11.5%

65 and older22,323 | 15.1%

Marital landscape

Married37,310 | 30.5%

Never married58,434 | 47.7%

Divorced14,429 | 11.8%

Separated4,195 | 3.4%

Widowed8,054 | 6.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White22,913 | 15.5%

Black or African American120,554 | 81.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native423 | 0.3%

Asian401 | 0.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino3,492 | 2.4%

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.

English4,649 reported responses
American4,413 reported responses
Irish3,491 reported responses
German2,163 reported responses
African1,645 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$57,733

Employment rate55.0%

Typical home value$102,047

Typical rent$1,283

Mortgage access55.5

Migration opportunity3.6

Commute under 30 minutes78.9%

Poverty rate28.6%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
39201	59.3	99.0	50.5	51.1	23.5	53.7
39202	55.4	94.1	42.4	47.8	27.0	50.6
39203	44.0	96.4	23.6	31.8	24.6	27.9
39204	48.1	97.0	31.4	33.0	27.6	34.3
39206	52.4	93.5	36.9	47.1	30.3	41.3
39209	49.9	94.1	33.0	41.9	30.3	36.3
39210	Not published	99.4	Not published	100.0	50.6	79.4
39211	61.3	84.3	53.1	63.0	35.2	61.1
39212	52.1	90.9	39.5	51.4	33.8	33.6
39213	47.2	93.9	30.8	35.8	28.2	32.1
39216	55.2	92.7	33.6	49.8	31.2	57.4
39217	Not published	99.6	Not published	0.0	5.9	53.3