Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Lynchburg, Virginia

A city-market profile built from 6 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 108,294 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #617 of 129159.3Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #39177.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #78549.894.1% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #104659.594.1% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #43038.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #73263.8100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1821,127 | 19.5%

18 to 2421,594 | 19.9%

25 to 3415,497 | 14.3%

35 to 5420,684 | 19.1%

55 to 6411,119 | 10.3%

65 and older18,273 | 16.9%

Marital landscape

Married37,889 | 41.1%

Never married38,707 | 42.0%

Divorced9,064 | 9.8%

Separated1,472 | 1.6%

Widowed5,000 | 5.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White72,771 | 67.2%

Black or African American24,700 | 22.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native259 | 0.2%

Asian2,004 | 1.9%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander120 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino5,223 | 4.8%

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.

American18,870 reported responses
English15,359 reported responses
German9,791 reported responses
Irish7,213 reported responses
Italian3,163 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$71,184

Employment rate57.0%

Typical home value$260,898

Typical rent$1,341

Mortgage access67.1

Migration opportunity87.2

Commute under 30 minutes85.1%

Poverty rate16.3%

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
24501	57.1	92.6	37.6	48.2	37.6	58.2
24502	63.3	82.6	53.9	61.3	40.4	69.8
24503	61.2	54.8	59.8	72.7	42.8	76.3
24504	54.0	75.6	41.4	51.9	38.4	56.0
24515	Not published	99.9	Not published	Not published	5.6	32.3
24538	42.8	22.0	51.0	61.9	42.7	44.4