Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Somerset, New Jersey

A city-market profile built from 1 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 56,327 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #60 of 129165.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #79663.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #25360.9100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #11581.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #71335.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #5284.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1811,168 | 19.8%

18 to 244,399 | 7.8%

25 to 348,323 | 14.8%

35 to 5414,695 | 26.1%

55 to 646,971 | 12.4%

65 and older10,771 | 19.1%

Marital landscape

Married24,958 | 51.8%

Never married15,945 | 33.1%

Divorced3,277 | 6.8%

Separated797 | 1.7%

Widowed3,216 | 6.7%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White17,587 | 31.2%

Black or African American16,073 | 28.5%

American Indian and Alaska Native158 | 0.3%

Asian11,873 | 21.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino11,317 | 20.1%

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.

Italian3,149 reported responses
German3,076 reported responses
Irish2,831 reported responses
Polish2,229 reported responses
English1,796 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$99,611

Employment rate66.0%

Typical home value$585,537

Typical rent$2,598

Mortgage access58.9

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes51.9%

Poverty rate5.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
08873	65.7	63.8	60.9	81.7	35.9	84.3