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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.

Comparing06118East Hartford, CT17834Kulpmont, 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	East Hartford06118 · CT	Kulpmont17834 · PA
ZipVitals ScoreComposite of 9 scoring domains	51.46	52.22 Leads
National rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#14,182of 32,066 US ZIPs	#13,163of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#240of 277 CT ZIPs	#659of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#86of 95 ZIPs in its metro area	Not in a 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	East Hartford06118 · CT	Kulpmont17834 · PA
ZipVitals Score	51.46	52.22 Leads
National rank	#14,182of 32,066 US ZIPs	#13,163of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rank	#240of 277 CT ZIPs	#659of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rank	#86of 95 ZIPs in its metro area	Not in a metro area

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

Metro areas — 06118: Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT · 17834: not in a metro area.

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

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Healthcare Access5% of the score 06118 leads · 36-point gap
06118East Hartford		healthier than 87% · 83% in Connecticut, 84% in its metro area	1 of 2
17834Kulpmont		healthier than 51% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	2 of 2

Climate / Disaster Risk5% of the score 17834 leads · 27-point gap
17834Kulpmont		healthier than 81% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	1 of 2
06118East Hartford		healthier than 54% · 20% in Connecticut, 25% in its metro area	2 of 2

Environmental Hazard14% of the score 17834 leads · 25-point gap
17834Kulpmont		healthier than 61% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	1 of 2
06118East Hartford		healthier than 36% · 52% in Connecticut, 61% in its metro area	2 of 2

Preventive Care13% of the score 17834 leads · 6-point gap
17834KulpmontPartial		healthier than 86% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	1 of 2
06118East Hartford		healthier than 80% · 27% in Connecticut, 13% in its metro area	2 of 2

Social Need / SDOH16% of the score 06118 leads · 4-point gap
06118East Hartford		healthier than 16% · 11% in Connecticut, 10% in its metro area	1 of 2
17834Kulpmont		healthier than 12% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	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 — 17834 cannot be placed here
06118East Hartford		healthier than 54% · 14% in Connecticut, 13% in its metro area	1 of 1
17834Kulpmont	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 — 17834 cannot be placed here
06118East Hartford		healthier than 37% · 16% in Connecticut, 10% in its metro area	1 of 1
17834Kulpmont	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 — 17834 cannot be placed here
06118East Hartford		healthier than 51% · 22% in Connecticut, 19% in its metro area	1 of 1
17834Kulpmont	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

Disability7% of the scoreno leader — 17834 cannot be placed here
06118East Hartford		healthier than 52% · 13% in Connecticut, 10% in its metro area	1 of 1
17834Kulpmont	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. Not every ZIP sits in a metro area — those show a state figure only. 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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Kulpmont vs. East Hartford

Kulpmont 17834 · PALEADS52.22

East Hartford 06118 · CT51.46

Data release 2026 · public federal and academic sources · higher is healthier

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