Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Charleston, South Carolina

A city-market profile built from 9 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 203,872 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #355 of 129161.6Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #80763.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #36958.198.4% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #50371.8100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #95933.9100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #25976.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1834,840 | 17.1%

18 to 2420,590 | 10.1%

25 to 3434,875 | 17.1%

35 to 5451,125 | 25.1%

55 to 6425,769 | 12.6%

65 and older36,673 | 18.0%

Marital landscape

Married86,708 | 48.9%

Never married62,459 | 35.2%

Divorced17,150 | 9.7%

Separated2,614 | 1.5%

Widowed8,464 | 4.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White147,856 | 72.5%

Black or African American32,852 | 16.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,326 | 0.7%

Asian3,380 | 1.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander267 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino11,052 | 5.4%

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.

English32,182 reported responses
Irish25,496 reported responses
German25,459 reported responses
American20,562 reported responses
Italian10,203 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$87,678

Employment rate65.0%

Typical home value$726,471

Typical rent$2,124

Mortgage access66.4

Migration opportunity94.6

Commute under 30 minutes67.4%

Poverty rate11.5%

ZIP areas in this city market

Scores remain governed at ZIP level. Select a ZIP to examine it in the comparison workspace.

ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
29401	62.2	85.5	43.8	68.1	29.6	76.3
29403	61.2	97.5	44.2	57.6	26.3	65.9
29407	64.3	74.6	59.3	68.1	33.1	78.0
29409	Not published	100.0	Not published	21.8	8.1	42.3
29412	60.9	54.8	60.9	75.3	36.0	76.2
29414	63.6	66.4	60.4	74.2	35.6	76.9
29424	Not published	99.5	Not published	100.0	48.7	83.1
29455	55.1	23.9	63.1	78.3	36.5	80.5
29492	61.7	50.7	60.8	78.4	36.1	83.2