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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.

Comparing26273Huttonsville, WV42518Bronston, KY2–5 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	Huttonsville26273 · WV	Bronston42518 · KY
ZipVitals ScoreComposite of 9 scoring domains	27.71	42.98 Leads
National rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#31,145of 32,066 US ZIPs	#24,390of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#565of 697 WV ZIPs	#177of 742 KY ZIPs
Metro rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	Not in a 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	Huttonsville26273 · WV	Bronston42518 · KY
ZipVitals Score	27.71	42.98 Leads
National rank	#31,145of 32,066 US ZIPs	#24,390of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rank	#565of 697 WV ZIPs	#177of 742 KY ZIPs
Metro rank	Not in a 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 — 26273: not in a metro area · 42518: 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

all 2 ZIPs can be placed on these 5 domains

Climate / Disaster Risk5% of the score 26273 leads · 37-point gap
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 86% · 91% in West Virginia	1 of 2
42518Bronston		healthier than 49% · 0% in Kentucky	2 of 2

Social Need / SDOH16% of the score 42518 leads · 33-point gap
42518Bronston		healthier than 38% · 81% in Kentucky	1 of 2
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 5% · 13% in West Virginia	2 of 2

Environmental Hazard14% of the score 26273 leads · 23-point gap
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 87% · 80% in West Virginia	1 of 2
42518Bronston		healthier than 64% · 100% in Kentucky	2 of 2

Preventive Care13% of the score 42518 leads · 14-point gap
42518BronstonPartial		healthier than 17% · 0% in Kentucky	1 of 2
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 3% · 0% in West Virginia	2 of 2

Healthcare Access5% of the score 42518 leads · 1-point gap
42518Bronston		healthier than 36% · 0% in Kentucky	1 of 2
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 35% · 20% in West Virginia	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 — 42518 cannot be placed here
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 19% · 89% in West Virginia	1 of 1
42518Bronston	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 — 42518 cannot be placed here
26273Huttonsville		in the bottom 0.03% · 0% in West Virginia	1 of 1
42518Bronston	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 — 42518 cannot be placed here
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 1% · 24% in West Virginia	1 of 1
42518Bronston	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

Disability7% of the scoreno leader — 42518 cannot be placed here
26273Huttonsville		healthier than 12% · 45% in West Virginia	1 of 1
42518Bronston	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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Bronston vs. Huttonsville

Bronston 42518 · KYLEADS42.98

Huttonsville 26273 · WV27.71

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

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