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How the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 2026114 of 115 ZIP codes scored · 0.90M residents represented

Score snapshot

59.50Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
58.30Median scoremiddle of 114 scored ZIPs
70.90Highest score12054 · Delmar
32.07Lowest score12307 · Schenectady
38.83Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#28Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
15%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.13M of 0.90M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.52MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs58% of the metro
0.32MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs36% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 114
  1. 43112054in Delmar · 17,436 residents70.90
  2. 50012148in Rexford · 4,023 residents70.52
  3. 64812084in Guilderland · 5,328 residents69.67
  4. 94512309in Schenectady · 33,246 residents68.30
  5. 1,06912019in Ballston Lake · 15,555 residents67.79
  6. 1,08412159in Slingerlands · 8,163 residents67.73
  7. 1,12012065in Clifton Park · 45,116 residents67.59
  8. 1,32012077in Glenmont · 7,017 residents66.87
  9. 1,48112211in Albany · 14,383 residents66.39
  10. 1,52012009in Altamont · 7,934 residents66.29
  11. 1,54112027in Burnt Hills · 4,693 residents66.22
  12. 1,62112061in East Greenbush · 9,854 residents66.00
  13. 1,79712186in Voorheesville · 6,512 residents65.55
  14. 1,86812866in Saratoga Springs · 40,057 residents65.34
  15. 1,97712085in Guilderland Center · 357 residents65.09
  16. 2,34512196in West Sand Lake · 3,880 residents64.20
  17. 2,62312161in South Bethlehem · 99 residents63.68
  18. 2,65212110in Latham · 20,081 residents63.62
  19. 2,76812302in Schenectady · 28,031 residents63.38
  20. 2,87112008in Alplaus · 422 residents63.18
  21. 2,88412018in Averill Park · 7,422 residents63.16
  22. 2,90112222in Albany · 6,889 residents63.13
  23. 2,97712140in Poestenkill · 1,512 residents62.99
  24. 2,98712020in Ballston Spa · 34,937 residents62.96
  25. 3,01612831in Gansevoort · 18,025 residents62.92
  26. 3,10812147in Rensselaerville · 466 residents62.75
  27. 3,15212120in Medusa · 600 residents62.67
  28. 3,23912203in Albany · 30,771 residents62.48
  29. 3,24312153in Sand Lake · 669 residents62.47
  30. 3,45712205in Albany · 25,838 residents62.11
  31. 3,48512063in East Schodack · 665 residents62.07
  32. 3,54912198in Wynantskill · 6,796 residents61.95
  33. 3,55812033in Castleton-on-Hudson · 7,932 residents61.93
  34. 3,68912067in Feura Bush · 1,165 residents61.71
  35. 3,72812041in Clarksville · 468 residents61.65
  36. 3,79612208in Albany · 23,289 residents61.51
  37. 3,85812158in Selkirk · 5,878 residents61.43
  38. 4,06712156in Schodack Landing · 808 residents61.09
  39. 4,18412123in Nassau · 4,457 residents60.92
  40. 4,45412188in Waterford · 10,988 residents60.54
  41. 4,85012151in Round Lake · 967 residents60.02
  42. 4,87412871in Schuylerville · 3,813 residents60.00
  43. 4,91512074in Galway · 2,848 residents59.93
  44. 4,93512469in Preston Hollow · 798 residents59.89
  45. 5,05612154in Schaghticoke · 2,777 residents59.73
  46. 5,08212170in Stillwater · 5,351 residents59.70
  47. 5,10512118in Mechanicville · 17,069 residents59.67
  48. 5,18112062in East Nassau · 1,650 residents59.55
  49. 5,18512056in Duanesburg · 1,695 residents59.55
  50. 5,36812144in Rensselaer · 22,111 residents59.30
Open the full Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro ranking →One page, all 114 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro. Nine domains make it up, and they are not spread the same way across the people who live here. Each row divides this metro's ZIP codes into fifths by how they stand against each other on that domain, then counts who lives at each end. If a domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents, every row would read about 20%.

The highest-standing fifth

23 of 114 ZIPs

Share of the metro's residents living in the fifth of its ZIP codes that stand highest on each domain.

Healthcare Access46%413,627 people

Standing highest: 12206 Albany12210 Albany12304 Schenectady

Chronic Disease Burden40%363,218 people

Standing highest: 12084 Guilderland12208 Albany12222 Albany

Risk Behavior34%306,603 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 12019 Ballston Lake12054 Delmar12148 Rexford

Social Need / SDOH31%281,925 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 12054 Delmar12065 Clifton Park12148 Rexford

Disability28%253,628 people

Standing highest: 12054 Delmar12084 Guilderland12222 Albany

Preventive Care26%233,605 people

Standing highest: 12054 Delmar12147 Rensselaerville12161 South Bethlehem

Mental Health25%227,919 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 12085 Guilderland Center12148 Rexford12309 Schenectady

Climate / Disaster Risk6%51,893 people

4 ZIP codes tie at this end: 12022 Berlin12168 Stephentown12169 Stephentown12175 Summit

Environmental Hazard4%39,712 people

Standing highest: 12007 Alcove12031 Carlisle12835 Hadley

Each fifth is about 23 of this metro’s 114 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 899,712 residents. A ZIP code is compared here only if it carries a resident count to weight it by and enough measured data on that domain — the rest are left out of that domain’s fifths rather than filled in from a coarser geography, which is why this count can sit just below the metro’s scored total.

The mark shows 20% — where a row would sit if that domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents.

Each ZIP code is compared with the other ZIP codes in this metro that are measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. Percentages are rounded; higher is healthier in every domain.

Why this matters

The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe the metro's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the metro.

A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.