Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chesapeake, Virginia

A city-market profile built from 6 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 253,091 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #569 of 129159.7Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #94656.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #49855.7100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #43573.5100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #61036.7100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #30675.2100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1861,202 | 24.2%

18 to 2420,292 | 8.0%

25 to 3434,244 | 13.5%

35 to 5468,651 | 27.1%

55 to 6431,853 | 12.6%

65 and older36,849 | 14.6%

Marital landscape

Married109,919 | 53.1%

Never married62,011 | 29.9%

Divorced20,652 | 10.0%

Separated4,284 | 2.1%

Widowed10,220 | 4.9%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White139,235 | 55.0%

Black or African American73,826 | 29.2%

American Indian and Alaska Native457 | 0.2%

Asian9,781 | 3.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander140 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino19,453 | 7.7%

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.

English29,390 reported responses
Irish24,097 reported responses
German23,392 reported responses
American17,608 reported responses
Italian10,488 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$88,942

Employment rate60.0%

Typical home value$426,089

Typical rent$2,088

Mortgage access65.2

Migration opportunity88.2

Commute under 30 minutes61.0%

Poverty rate9.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
23320	61.1	65.6	53.8	69.8	33.8	78.3
23321	61.8	56.6	60.3	75.3	38.0	77.8
23322	60.5	36.5	64.0	83.5	39.6	84.7
23323	60.7	53.2	58.3	77.8	39.2	76.5
23324	53.1	86.7	34.0	52.6	31.4	51.4
23325	54.7	70.7	45.6	63.3	33.9	55.2