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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.

Comparing25853Helen, WV17063Milroy, 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	Helen25853 · WV	Milroy17063 · PA
ZipVitals ScoreComposite of 9 scoring domains	32.72	40.00 Leads
National rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#30,111of 32,066 US ZIPs	#26,752of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#417of 697 WV ZIPs	#1,587of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#30of 75 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	Helen25853 · WV	Milroy17063 · PA
ZipVitals Score	32.72	40.00 Leads
National rank	#30,111of 32,066 US ZIPs	#26,752of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rank	#417of 697 WV ZIPs	#1,587of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rank	#30of 75 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 — 25853: Beckley, WV · 17063: 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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Environmental Hazard14% of the score 25853 leads · 19-point gap
25853Helen		healthier than 65% · 53% in West Virginia, 40% in its metro area	1 of 2
17063Milroy		healthier than 46% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	2 of 2

Healthcare Access5% of the score 25853 leads · 9-point gap
25853Helen		healthier than 41% · 31% in West Virginia, 29% in its metro area	1 of 2
17063Milroy		healthier than 32% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	2 of 2

Climate / Disaster Risk5% of the score 25853 leads · 6-point gap
25853Helen		healthier than 89% · 95% in West Virginia, 90% in its metro area	1 of 2
17063Milroy		healthier than 83% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	2 of 2

Social Need / SDOH16% of the score 25853 leads · 3-point gap
25853Helen		healthier than 12% · 31% in West Virginia, 52% in its metro area	1 of 2
17063Milroy		healthier than 9% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	2 of 2

Preventive Care13% of the score 17063 leads · 3-point gap
17063MilroyPartial		healthier than 32% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania	1 of 2
25853Helen		healthier than 29% · 19% in West Virginia, 22% in its metro area	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 — 17063 cannot be placed here
25853Helen		healthier than 8% · 67% in West Virginia, 77% in its metro area	1 of 1
17063Milroy	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 — 17063 cannot be placed here
25853Helen		healthier than 2% · 23% in West Virginia, 37% in its metro area	1 of 1
17063Milroy	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 — 17063 cannot be placed here
25853Helen		in the bottom 0.8% · 16% in West Virginia, 26% in its metro area	1 of 1
17063Milroy	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

Disability7% of the scoreno leader — 17063 cannot be placed here
25853Helen		healthier than 15% · 55% in West Virginia, 74% in its metro area	1 of 1
17063Milroy	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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Milroy vs. Helen

Milroy 17063 · PALEADS40.00

Helen 25853 · WV32.72

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

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