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Line up 2–5 ZIP codes and read the ZipVitals Score, both ranks, and every scoring domain against the same national scale. Descriptive of documented conditions — never a verdict on the people who live there.

Comparing02861Pawtucket, RI17728Cogan Station, PA2–5 ZIPs · 2 selected

ZipVitals Score and its national and state ranks, compared across 2 ZIP codes. Higher is healthier. The nine scoring domains follow, one table each.
Metric	Pawtucket02861 · RI	Cogan Station17728 · PA
ZipVitals ScoreComposite of 9 scoring domains	52.18	54.82 Leads
National rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#13,213of 32,066 US ZIPs	#9,661of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#69of 77 RI ZIPs	#472of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#95of 112 ZIPs in its metro area	#4of 14 ZIPs in its metro area

ZipVitals Score and its national and state ranks, compared across 2 ZIP codes. Higher is healthier. The nine scoring domains follow, one table each.
Metric	Pawtucket02861 · RI	Cogan Station17728 · PA
ZipVitals Score	52.18	54.82 Leads
National rank	#13,213of 32,066 US ZIPs	#9,661of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rank	#69of 77 RI ZIPs	#472of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rank	#95of 112 ZIPs in its metro area	#4of 14 ZIPs in its metro area

ZipVitals Score — Composite of 9 scoring domainsNational rank, State rank and Metro rank — Among ZIPs with a computed score

Metro areas — 02861: Providence-Warwick, RI-MA · 17728: Williamsport, PA.

Where these ZIPs differ, domain by domain

Nine domains make up the ZipVitals Score. Each one is placed on the same national scale, and the domains where these ZIPs are furthest apart come first. Higher is healthier in every one.

Compared with the ZIP codes measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. How the score works, and who it compares you with ›

Every ranking, bar and gap below is measured against the same national group. Where a ZIP’s line also mentions its state or its metro area, that figure is measured against a different group — its own — so it is context for that one ZIP and never a comparison between them.

Furthest apart first

all 2 ZIPs can be placed on these 5 domains

Healthcare Access5% of the score 02861 leads · 16-point gap
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 77% · 61% in Rhode Island, 64% in its metro area	1 of 2
17728Cogan Station		healthier than 61% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	2 of 2

Climate / Disaster Risk5% of the score 17728 leads · 12-point gap
17728Cogan Station		healthier than 82% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	1 of 2
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 70% · 53% in Rhode Island, 69% in its metro area	2 of 2

Social Need / SDOH16% of the score 02861 leads · 5-point gap
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 28% · 11% in Rhode Island, 15% in its metro area	1 of 2
17728Cogan Station		healthier than 23% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	2 of 2

Environmental Hazard14% of the score 17728 leads · 3-point gap
17728Cogan Station		healthier than 23% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	1 of 2
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 20% · 39% in Rhode Island, 32% in its metro area	2 of 2

Preventive Care13% of the score 02861 leads · 2-point gap
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 87% · 13% in Rhode Island, 20% in its metro area	1 of 2
17728Cogan StationPartial		healthier than 85% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	2 of 2

Not every ZIP can be placed here

no leader and no gap — ordered by weight instead

Chronic Disease Burden21% of the scoreno leader — 17728 cannot be placed here
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 65% · 38% in Rhode Island, 44% in its metro area	1 of 1
17728Cogan Station	not placed — too little of this domain is measured here to compare reliably, though it still counts toward this ZIP’s score

Risk Behavior11% of the scoreno leader — 17728 cannot be placed here
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 33% · 9% in Rhode Island, 15% in its metro area	1 of 1
17728Cogan Station	not placed — too little of this domain is measured here to compare reliably, though it still counts toward this ZIP’s score

Mental Health8% of the scoreno leader — 17728 cannot be placed here
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 26% · 14% in Rhode Island, 21% in its metro area	1 of 1
17728Cogan Station	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

Disability7% of the scoreno leader — 17728 cannot be placed here
02861Pawtucket		healthier than 56% · 14% in Rhode Island, 18% in its metro area	1 of 1
17728Cogan Station	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

“Of the score” is the domain’s weight in the ZipVitals Score — a property of the score itself, the same on every ZIP. Where a ZIP has no measurement for a domain, that domain drops out of its score and the remaining weights scale up, so its own mix differs slightly from the weights shown here; each ZIP’s own page carries its exact shares. A gap is the distance between the highest and lowest of these ZIPs on that domain’s national scale. Percentages are rounded; higher is healthier in every domain.

Data release 2026 · higher is healthier on every row. How the ZipVitals Score is calculated →

The State rank and Metro rank rows show no “Leads” marker: each ZIP is ranked against the ZIPs in its own state and the ZIPs in its own metro area, so those ranks are not ordered against one another.

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Cogan Station vs. Pawtucket

Cogan Station 17728 · PALEADS54.82

Pawtucket 02861 · RI52.18

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