Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Paterson, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 158,694 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1206 of 129151.1Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #7890.3100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #127632.597.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #120355.3100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #105232.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #128536.0100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1843,898 | 27.7%

18 to 2415,737 | 9.9%

25 to 3423,206 | 14.6%

35 to 5439,230 | 24.7%

55 to 6417,336 | 10.9%

65 and older19,287 | 12.2%

Marital landscape

Married47,151 | 37.1%

Never married58,842 | 46.3%

Divorced9,832 | 7.7%

Separated5,146 | 4.0%

Widowed6,122 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White12,118 | 7.6%

Black or African American35,906 | 22.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native812 | 0.5%

Asian6,599 | 4.2%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander36 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino102,436 | 64.5%

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.

Jamaican5,055 reported responses
Italian2,251 reported responses
African2,070 reported responses
American1,538 reported responses
Palestinian1,328 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$67,669

Employment rate57.0%

Typical home value$532,749

Typical rent$2,057

Mortgage access50.2

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes73.9%

Poverty rate21.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
07501	49.3	93.6	29.1	49.9	30.9	32.7
07502	51.4	83.2	34.6	63.0	36.7	35.1
07503	53.1	87.1	32.5	57.0	33.0	48.3
07504	54.6	88.4	35.2	64.3	36.3	42.8
07505	Not published	97.0	Not published	37.5	24.4	40.9
07513	53.5	87.0	38.7	63.0	34.6	37.4
07514	54.3	88.0	40.7	61.3	33.0	39.9
07522	47.6	95.7	26.4	48.7	33.0	24.1
07524	49.1	92.8	28.6	50.0	31.7	32.6