Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chester, Virginia

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 54,827 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #245 of 129162.8Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #81863.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #33259.1100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #36075.3100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #50837.5100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #26276.5100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1812,494 | 22.8%

18 to 244,551 | 8.3%

25 to 347,176 | 13.1%

35 to 5415,040 | 27.4%

55 to 647,394 | 13.5%

65 and older8,172 | 14.9%

Marital landscape

Married23,855 | 52.3%

Never married14,368 | 31.5%

Divorced4,275 | 9.4%

Separated817 | 1.8%

Widowed2,296 | 5.0%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White29,154 | 53.2%

Black or African American15,436 | 28.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native176 | 0.3%

Asian1,715 | 3.1%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander143 | 0.3%

Hispanic or Latino6,970 | 12.7%

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.

English6,171 reported responses
German4,643 reported responses
Irish4,565 reported responses
American3,607 reported responses
Italian1,654 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$89,584

Employment rate62.0%

Typical home value$391,667

Typical rent$1,767

Mortgage access63.8

Migration opportunity95.9

Commute under 30 minutes59.9%

Poverty rate5.9%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
23831	61.3	59.6	58.4	74.3	37.3	75.4
23836	66.4	71.6	61.1	77.9	37.9	79.3