Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Blacksburg, Virginia

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 57,743 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #506 of 129160.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #1295.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #113641.884.1% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #121354.884.1% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #55937.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #86960.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 186,700 | 11.6%

18 to 2424,854 | 43.0%

25 to 346,390 | 11.1%

35 to 549,420 | 16.3%

55 to 644,000 | 6.9%

65 and older6,379 | 11.0%

Marital landscape

Married15,509 | 29.4%

Never married33,061 | 62.6%

Divorced2,434 | 4.6%

Separated439 | 0.8%

Widowed1,333 | 2.5%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White45,461 | 78.7%

Black or African American2,151 | 3.7%

American Indian and Alaska Native137 | 0.2%

Asian5,548 | 9.6%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander124 | 0.2%

Hispanic or Latino2,668 | 4.6%

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.

American7,535 reported responses
German7,165 reported responses
English7,027 reported responses
Irish5,256 reported responses
Italian2,305 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$74,674

Employment rate51.0%

Typical home value$427,713

Typical rent$1,987

Mortgage access70.7

Migration opportunity2.1

Commute under 30 minutes86.4%

Poverty rate33.6%

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
24060	60.3	94.8	41.8	54.8	40.2	59.7
24061	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	20.7	63.5