Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Winston Salem, North Carolina

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 275,645 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #741 of 129158.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #29581.0100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #95246.498.2% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #109058.598.2% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #94734.0100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #76462.7100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1862,017 | 22.5%

18 to 2431,068 | 11.3%

25 to 3438,271 | 13.9%

35 to 5466,637 | 24.2%

55 to 6433,408 | 12.1%

65 and older44,244 | 16.1%

Marital landscape

Married97,287 | 42.3%

Never married92,262 | 40.1%

Divorced23,467 | 10.2%

Separated4,495 | 2.0%

Widowed12,286 | 5.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White132,672 | 48.1%

Black or African American82,348 | 29.9%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,341 | 0.5%

Asian5,923 | 2.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander255 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino47,458 | 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.

English30,353 reported responses
German24,041 reported responses
Irish18,422 reported responses
American14,658 reported responses
Italian6,972 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$69,842

Employment rate58.0%

Typical home value$273,542

Typical rent$1,403

Mortgage access64.7

Migration opportunity94.4

Commute under 30 minutes78.5%

Poverty rate16.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
27101	56.5	94.4	37.5	48.8	28.8	59.5
27103	63.0	81.3	54.0	62.4	34.6	72.8
27104	60.7	61.5	56.8	69.4	36.5	76.0
27105	53.1	91.7	33.3	46.6	33.0	49.3
27106	61.5	81.8	49.2	62.9	34.6	70.4
27107	54.3	73.6	43.9	57.3	36.0	54.8
27109	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	6.8	39.2
27110	Not published	100.0	Not published	Not published	6.3	80.9
27127	59.7	83.2	49.8	59.9	35.5	60.5