Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Hickory, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 84,442 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #856 of 129157.0Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #85961.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #69151.6100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #93961.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #28040.2100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #61166.9100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1818,190 | 21.5%

18 to 248,105 | 9.6%

25 to 3410,667 | 12.6%

35 to 5420,693 | 24.5%

55 to 6411,018 | 13.0%

65 and older15,769 | 18.7%

Marital landscape

Married36,139 | 50.6%

Never married21,584 | 30.2%

Divorced7,479 | 10.5%

Separated1,690 | 2.4%

Widowed4,582 | 6.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White61,068 | 72.3%

Black or African American7,865 | 9.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native280 | 0.3%

Asian4,433 | 5.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander21 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino9,125 | 10.8%

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.

German12,767 reported responses
English12,432 reported responses
American8,803 reported responses
Irish6,681 reported responses
European2,421 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,547

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$282,747

Typical rent$1,410

Mortgage access67.3

Migration opportunity92.6

Commute under 30 minutes78.1%

Poverty rate14.0%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
28601	57.6	60.6	51.4	63.1	39.8	70.7
28602	56.0	63.5	51.9	59.8	40.8	60.4