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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.

Comparing28742Horse Shoe, NC17064Mount Gretna, 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	Horse Shoe28742 · NC	Mount Gretna17064 · PA
ZipVitals ScoreComposite of 9 scoring domains	56.86	59.22 Leads
National rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#7,403of 32,066 US ZIPs	#5,424of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#170of 793 NC ZIPs	#238of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rankAmong ZIPs with a computed score	#15of 29 ZIPs in its metro area	#3of 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	Horse Shoe28742 · NC	Mount Gretna17064 · PA
ZipVitals Score	56.86	59.22 Leads
National rank	#7,403of 32,066 US ZIPs	#5,424of 32,066 US ZIPs Leads
State rank	#170of 793 NC ZIPs	#238of 1,748 PA ZIPs
Metro rank	#15of 29 ZIPs in its metro area	#3of 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 — 28742: Asheville, NC · 17064: Lebanon, 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 28742 leads · 27-point gap
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 68% · 63% in North Carolina, 29% in its metro area	1 of 2
17064Mount Gretna		healthier than 41% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	2 of 2

Environmental Hazard14% of the score 28742 leads · 19-point gap
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 58% · 43% in North Carolina, 71% in its metro area	1 of 2
17064Mount Gretna		healthier than 39% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	2 of 2

Preventive Care13% of the score 17064 leads · 10-point gap
17064Mount GretnaPartial		healthier than 95% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	1 of 2
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 85% · 81% in North Carolina, 54% in its metro area	2 of 2

Climate / Disaster Risk5% of the score 17064 leads · 7-point gap
17064Mount Gretna		healthier than 72% · no comparison group in Pennsylvania, no metro comparison group	1 of 2
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 65% · 91% in North Carolina, 54% in its metro area	2 of 2

Social Need / SDOH16% of the score 28742 leads · 5-point gap
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 80% · 79% in North Carolina, 43% in its metro area	1 of 2
17064Mount Gretna		healthier than 75% · 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 — 17064 cannot be placed here
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 53% · 68% in North Carolina, 39% in its metro area	1 of 1
17064Mount Gretna	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 — 17064 cannot be placed here
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 84% · 80% in North Carolina, 39% in its metro area	1 of 1
17064Mount Gretna	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 — 17064 cannot be placed here
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 46% · 67% in North Carolina, 50% in its metro area	1 of 1
17064Mount Gretna	not measured in this ZIP at all — left out of its score rather than estimated

Disability7% of the scoreno leader — 17064 cannot be placed here
28742Horse Shoe		healthier than 58% · 73% in North Carolina, 54% in its metro area	1 of 1
17064Mount Gretna	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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Mount Gretna vs. Horse Shoe

Mount Gretna 17064 · PALEADS59.22

Horse Shoe 28742 · NC56.86

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

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