Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

A city-market profile built from 4 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 129,661 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #656 of 129158.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #56771.5100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #71751.1100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #67267.7100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #100633.4100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #65865.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1823,920 | 18.4%

18 to 2416,637 | 12.8%

25 to 3417,059 | 13.2%

35 to 5429,940 | 23.1%

55 to 6415,631 | 12.1%

65 and older26,474 | 20.4%

Marital landscape

Married50,582 | 45.3%

Never married42,623 | 38.2%

Divorced9,638 | 8.6%

Separated1,714 | 1.5%

Widowed7,070 | 6.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White81,182 | 62.6%

Black or African American9,308 | 7.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native251 | 0.2%

Asian4,259 | 3.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander163 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino30,219 | 23.3%

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.

German23,360 reported responses
Irish16,458 reported responses
Italian14,322 reported responses
American9,452 reported responses
English7,510 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$81,742

Employment rate59.0%

Typical home value$333,325

Typical rent$1,851

Mortgage access64.8

Migration opportunity16.1

Commute under 30 minutes75.6%

Poverty rate12.4%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
18015	58.8	91.9	41.9	60.1	30.9	58.4
18017	56.7	55.5	52.6	70.6	35.1	69.0
18018	61.1	89.6	50.5	63.8	30.9	59.1
18020	59.7	38.4	64.5	80.8	38.2	80.7