Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Portsmouth, Virginia

A city-market profile built from 7 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 97,145 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #1082 of 129154.2Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #25682.4100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #119439.599.2% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #109158.499.5% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #115831.7100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #114651.0100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1822,392 | 23.1%

18 to 248,852 | 9.1%

25 to 3415,997 | 16.5%

35 to 5423,153 | 23.8%

55 to 6411,714 | 12.1%

65 and older15,037 | 15.5%

Marital landscape

Married31,910 | 39.6%

Never married31,477 | 39.1%

Divorced9,965 | 12.4%

Separated2,458 | 3.1%

Widowed4,742 | 5.9%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White35,146 | 36.2%

Black or African American49,167 | 50.6%

American Indian and Alaska Native299 | 0.3%

Asian1,673 | 1.7%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander46 | 0.1%

Hispanic or Latino5,180 | 5.3%

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.

English7,634 reported responses
American6,447 reported responses
German5,053 reported responses
Irish4,777 reported responses
Italian2,199 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$70,090

Employment rate55.0%

Typical home value$260,063

Typical rent$1,543

Mortgage access63.1

Migration opportunity47.8

Commute under 30 minutes65.0%

Poverty rate17.3%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
23701	54.4	81.7	40.5	61.3	32.6	49.0
23702	50.4	93.8	30.8	50.6	30.2	35.7
23703	58.0	67.2	50.1	69.1	35.0	65.2
23704	53.2	92.3	34.4	51.9	28.7	47.4
23707	51.2	85.5	33.4	49.6	30.1	47.5
23708	Not published	99.5	Not published	100.0	39.3	76.2
23709	Not published	99.6	Not published	Not published	16.6	22.3