Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Sanford, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 76,725 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1085 of 129154.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #96255.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #88447.8100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #90262.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #11744.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #86260.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1818,715 | 24.4%

18 to 245,946 | 7.7%

25 to 3410,436 | 13.6%

35 to 5420,069 | 26.2%

55 to 649,180 | 12.0%

65 and older12,379 | 16.1%

Marital landscape

Married32,657 | 52.1%

Never married18,030 | 28.8%

Divorced6,533 | 10.4%

Separated1,464 | 2.3%

Widowed3,973 | 6.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White43,752 | 57.0%

Black or African American13,506 | 17.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native198 | 0.3%

Asian690 | 0.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander159 | 0.2%

Hispanic or Latino16,051 | 20.9%

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.

English7,668 reported responses
German5,882 reported responses
Irish5,745 reported responses
American3,515 reported responses
Italian2,440 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$75,402

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$291,860

Typical rent$1,782

Mortgage access63.9

Migration opportunity93.9

Commute under 30 minutes59.5%

Poverty rate14.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
27330	53.8	62.1	44.9	58.6	44.1	58.3
27332	54.5	49.0	51.0	67.4	45.7	62.9