Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Wausau, Wisconsin

A city-market profile built from 2 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 56,642 residents.

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

Follow Your Heart Index | National #231 of 129162.9Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #66668.1100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #37258.0100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #83964.1100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #3549.7100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #43271.6100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1812,610 | 22.3%

18 to 244,171 | 7.4%

25 to 347,339 | 13.0%

35 to 5413,944 | 24.6%

55 to 647,046 | 12.4%

65 and older11,532 | 20.4%

Marital landscape

Married23,302 | 49.8%

Never married15,079 | 32.2%

Divorced5,245 | 11.2%

Separated467 | 1.0%

Widowed2,707 | 5.8%

Race and broad ethnicity

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

White46,893 | 82.8%

Black or African American181 | 0.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native91 | 0.2%

Asian4,983 | 8.8%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander21 | 0.0%

Hispanic or Latino2,406 | 4.2%

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.

German24,252 reported responses
Polish6,002 reported responses
Irish4,451 reported responses
English3,745 reported responses
Norwegian2,688 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$75,648

Employment rate61.0%

Typical home value$235,315

Typical rent$1,010

Mortgage access76.0

Migration opportunity85.9

Commute under 30 minutes88.2%

Poverty rate11.8%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
54401	63.4	66.0	59.7	64.4	49.7	74.3
54403	62.3	70.7	56.0	63.6	49.7	68.3