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ZipVitals

The health of every US ZIP code, ranked in the open.

Transparent, cite-able rankings computed from public federal and academic data and rolled up to real geographies — every number traceable to its source, every method published. Not a dashboard; a reference.

Data release 2026Refreshed with each release

Explore

Browse the national composite ranking, drill into a state or a metro area, compare any 2–5 ZIPs, read a combined-exposure explainer, or start with the published methodology and the open data API.

Healthiest ZIP codes

Ranking

The US ZIP codes that score highest on the ZipVitals Score, ranked nationally — with a downloadable CSV and a frozen citation permalink.

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Rankings by state

Directory

Every state and territory with a published ZipVitals Score rollup — a population-weighted read of its ZIP codes, and the highest-scoring ZIPs in each.

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Rankings by metro area

Directory

Every US metropolitan statistical area with a published rollup, grouped by state — official OMB delineations, rolled up from each metro's own ZIP codes.

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Surprising findings

Findings

Short data-journalism reads on where documented health most departs from what income, geography, or the surrounding data would predict — model stated, uncertainty shown, data downloadable.

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Compare ZIP codes

Tool

Line up 2–5 ZIPs and read the ZipVitals Score and all nine scoring domains side by side.

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Methodology

How it works

How the ZipVitals Score is built — every source, rule, and coverage gap, published in full.

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Public API

Data

Free, public, read-only per-ZCTA data — one endpoint, no key, CC BY 4.0 derived columns.

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Combined exposures: radon & arsenic, explained

Explainer

What "combined exposure" means, the two federal references radon and arsenic are each measured against, and why the same section can read two ways. A national ranking, with a page for each state.

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Care deserts: where health need meets barriers to care, explained

Explainer

What a "care desert" means here — a ZIP code carrying both an elevated documented burden of health need and real barriers to reaching care — the two axes each is assessed on, and why it is never framed as one causing the other. A national ranking, with a page for each state.

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Combined exposures: flooding, evacuation and humid heat, explained

Explainer

What it means for flood exposure to overlap with a second measurement — households without a vehicle, or humid-heat days — what kind of instrument produced each of the three measurements, and why only one of them has a federal reference. Two national rankings, with a page for each state.

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Rankings by health domain

The ZipVitals Score is built from nine health domains. Each one is also ranked nationally on its own, with a downloadable CSV and a frozen citation permalink.

Built to be cited

These rankings exist for journalists, researchers, and residents who want a clear, checkable picture of where a community stands — not a real-estate pitch and not a black box.

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Every value rolls up to a real place

State and metro numbers are population-weighted rollups of their ZCTAs — never a coarser-geography figure relabeled. Coverage denominators are shown.

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Frozen citations that never move

Cite a ranking today and the permalink resolves to exactly that data years from now, alongside a live always-latest version.

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Download the data

Every ranking ships a CSV under CC BY 4.0 with a provenance header — reproduce our method, or check it against the source.