Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Schenectady, New York

A city-market profile built from 8 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 170,822 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #664 of 129158.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #66268.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #56854.2100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #66767.9100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #78935.3100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #72663.9100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1836,917 | 21.6%

18 to 2416,424 | 9.6%

25 to 3421,385 | 12.5%

35 to 5442,449 | 24.8%

55 to 6422,214 | 13.0%

65 and older31,433 | 18.4%

Marital landscape

Married65,732 | 45.9%

Never married50,148 | 35.0%

Divorced15,748 | 11.0%

Separated2,930 | 2.0%

Widowed8,753 | 6.1%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White120,061 | 70.3%

Black or African American17,265 | 10.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native637 | 0.4%

Asian9,799 | 5.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander39 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino13,975 | 8.2%

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.

Italian29,299 reported responses
Irish28,200 reported responses
German21,210 reported responses
English16,474 reported responses
Polish8,978 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$82,317

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$302,660

Typical rent$1,507

Mortgage access67.5

Migration opportunity48.4

Commute under 30 minutes69.9%

Poverty rate12.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
12302	62.3	56.4	62.9	75.0	37.3	77.8
12303	59.2	71.5	53.5	67.1	35.5	62.6
12304	53.0	80.6	37.0	58.9	33.6	48.5
12305	58.9	97.2	43.6	55.4	26.2	57.2
12306	61.2	77.1	56.8	69.0	35.3	60.6
12307	42.1	93.2	20.5	31.5	27.3	24.0
12308	59.4	94.8	44.1	60.3	31.4	54.6
12309	60.6	33.7	71.2	81.6	40.2	80.5