Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Salisbury, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 85,081 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1162 of 129152.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #81763.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #104644.0100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #108658.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #117731.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #84261.0100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1818,777 | 22.1%

18 to 248,150 | 9.6%

25 to 3410,452 | 12.3%

35 to 5420,571 | 24.2%

55 to 6411,355 | 13.3%

65 and older15,776 | 18.5%

Marital landscape

Married34,593 | 48.1%

Never married22,596 | 31.4%

Divorced8,186 | 11.4%

Separated1,831 | 2.5%

Widowed4,774 | 6.6%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White55,464 | 65.2%

Black or African American17,496 | 20.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native597 | 0.7%

Asian791 | 0.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander17 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino10,082 | 11.8%

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.

German12,918 reported responses
English9,955 reported responses
American7,984 reported responses
Irish6,143 reported responses
Scotch-Irish2,009 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$71,499

Employment rate54.0%

Typical home value$275,237

Typical rent$1,377

Mortgage access63.5

Migration opportunity97.5

Commute under 30 minutes68.6%

Poverty rate19.2%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
28144	53.2	83.6	34.0	51.6	28.5	59.0
28146	50.4	37.3	53.2	65.8	33.5	64.4
28147	53.9	71.5	43.5	57.2	31.9	59.1