Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Reading, Pennsylvania

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 211,453 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #939 of 129156.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #51273.8100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #80349.4100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #99460.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #45837.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #108553.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1851,738 | 24.5%

18 to 2419,941 | 9.4%

25 to 3428,798 | 13.6%

35 to 5452,454 | 24.8%

55 to 6426,210 | 12.4%

65 and older32,312 | 15.3%

Marital landscape

Married75,744 | 43.7%

Never married65,105 | 37.6%

Divorced19,133 | 11.0%

Separated4,185 | 2.4%

Widowed9,100 | 5.3%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White103,364 | 48.9%

Black or African American14,459 | 6.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native2,492 | 1.2%

Asian3,531 | 1.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander54 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino90,387 | 42.8%

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.

German41,245 reported responses
Irish15,537 reported responses
Italian14,977 reported responses
English8,946 reported responses
Polish8,677 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$73,813

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$245,707

Typical rent$1,469

Mortgage access64.7

Migration opportunity31.6

Commute under 30 minutes71.2%

Poverty rate17.1%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
19601	50.9	93.5	32.5	44.8	34.2	37.5
19602	49.0	95.9	30.1	39.4	33.4	32.7
19604	53.7	91.6	40.1	53.3	37.5	36.1
19605	61.0	61.9	60.3	72.1	40.5	67.8
19606	58.8	56.7	59.9	70.4	39.7	65.6
19607	62.9	77.9	58.7	68.7	38.8	63.2
19608	60.7	44.6	67.6	78.4	42.5	72.7
19609	56.9	50.4	59.5	70.0	39.2	65.3
19611	55.4	89.8	38.4	53.7	34.5	50.3