Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Charlotte, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 25 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 926,122 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #225 of 129163.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #36378.6100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #42957.099.4% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #60769.099.4% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #110532.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #52169.4100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 18211,482 | 22.8%

18 to 2489,353 | 9.6%

25 to 34169,878 | 18.3%

35 to 54257,700 | 27.8%

55 to 6496,769 | 10.4%

65 and older100,940 | 10.9%

Marital landscape

Married327,405 | 42.8%

Never married321,621 | 42.1%

Divorced71,870 | 9.4%

Separated15,411 | 2.0%

Widowed28,521 | 3.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White369,964 | 40.0%

Black or African American310,875 | 33.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native4,606 | 0.5%

Asian60,062 | 6.5%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander384 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino159,005 | 17.2%

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.

English73,727 reported responses
German67,468 reported responses
Irish61,695 reported responses
American42,342 reported responses
Italian34,083 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$83,057

Employment rate69.0%

Typical home value$490,230

Typical rent$1,714

Mortgage access65.2

Migration opportunity48.9

Commute under 30 minutes65.5%

Poverty rate11.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
28202	70.0	97.9	62.7	73.5	25.8	74.6
28203	73.0	97.9	67.4	77.2	27.2	80.1
28204	69.9	96.7	63.0	71.9	26.6	75.8
28205	64.5	92.5	56.5	64.9	29.5	65.5
28206	58.9	96.9	45.8	55.7	25.9	55.0
28207	56.7	26.1	62.8	83.7	34.4	84.0
28208	57.7	96.0	41.8	56.5	28.0	52.9
28209	71.7	90.9	67.9	76.1	30.1	80.6
28210	67.6	78.1	65.6	73.7	33.5	77.9
28211	65.4	63.3	65.3	78.2	35.6	81.1
28212	55.3	91.5	41.0	55.3	30.5	46.3
28213	58.9	93.6	44.0	57.1	29.0	57.8
28214	65.5	80.1	60.9	71.3	35.2	71.5
28215	60.1	84.4	48.5	63.1	33.4	62.0
28216	59.6	88.2	48.6	61.6	30.9	57.8
28217	62.0	95.8	50.2	59.2	29.4	60.9
28223	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	7.8	76.9
28226	59.8	41.1	65.7	79.2	36.6	78.7
28262	64.8	95.0	52.2	62.5	28.6	71.8
28269	65.6	83.6	57.2	69.2	34.0	74.5
28270	58.3	35.4	65.8	79.9	37.5	77.0
28273	67.1	88.2	60.8	71.0	33.8	70.6
28274	Not published	99.7	Not published	Not published	8.3	45.2
28277	61.9	42.9	67.6	81.6	37.3	82.3
28278	61.5	46.3	67.6	82.1	38.0	74.8