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How the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202674 of 78 ZIP codes scored · 0.88M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.46Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
56.24Median scoremiddle of 74 scored ZIPs
71.62Highest score18046 · East Texas
24.84Lowest score18102 · Allentown
46.78Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#140Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
43%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.38M of 0.88M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.52MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs59% of the metro
0.66MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs75% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 74
  1. 32818046in East Texas · 201 residents71.62
  2. 1,42508886in Stewartsville · 6,435 residents66.55
  3. 1,52318034in Center Valley · 9,209 residents66.28
  4. 1,95518106in Allentown · 6,226 residents65.13
  5. 2,12207840in Hackettstown · 32,105 residents64.68
  6. 2,44407880in Vienna · 173 residents64.00
  7. 2,61118069in Orefield · 8,515 residents63.71
  8. 2,90318036in Coopersburg · 15,581 residents63.12
  9. 2,97318045in Easton · 30,429 residents63.00
  10. 3,00818051in Fogelsville · 3,624 residents62.93
  11. 3,11007825in Blairstown · 9,210 residents62.74
  12. 3,14718062in Macungie · 27,110 residents62.68
  13. 3,33718031in Breinigsville · 11,570 residents62.31
  14. 3,70807865in Port Murray · 2,825 residents61.68
  15. 3,73018087in Trexlertown · 590 residents61.65
  16. 3,74818079in Slatedale · 303 residents61.60
  17. 3,90118020in Bethlehem · 21,204 residents61.36
  18. 3,93618078in Schnecksville · 7,857 residents61.31
  19. 4,07007838in Great Meadows · 3,727 residents61.09
  20. 4,15218092in Zionsville · 3,230 residents60.97
  21. 4,96307832in Columbia · 3,593 residents59.86
  22. 5,01318053in Germansville · 2,344 residents59.79
  23. 5,14818055in Hellertown · 12,117 residents59.60
  24. 5,33918059in Laurys Station · 744 residents59.32
  25. 5,36918066in New Tripoli · 6,102 residents59.30
  26. 5,48918040in Easton · 17,256 residents59.15
  27. 5,53618049in Emmaus · 18,941 residents59.08
  28. 5,64718104in Allentown · 48,683 residents58.93
  29. 5,73718064in Nazareth · 26,970 residents58.81
  30. 5,81207882in Washington · 15,115 residents58.72
  31. 6,16718011in Alburtis · 5,338 residents58.28
  32. 6,39618083in Stockertown · 489 residents58.00
  33. 6,39818038in Danielsville · 3,549 residents57.99
  34. 6,68107863in Oxford · 3,819 residents57.66
  35. 7,13818017in Bethlehem · 40,640 residents57.14
  36. 7,65718085in Tatamy · 1,175 residents56.59
  37. 8,00307833in Delaware · 70 residents56.27
  38. 8,04218037in Coplay · 7,472 residents56.22
  39. 8,28607823in Belvidere · 7,451 residents55.99
  40. 9,06618624in Lake Harmony · 487 residents55.32
  41. 9,08118067in Northampton · 19,590 residents55.31
  42. 9,17118244in Parryville · 365 residents55.24
  43. 10,03518343in Mount Bethel · 3,637 residents54.53
  44. 10,32018229in Jim Thorpe · 9,248 residents54.29
  45. 10,74008865in Phillipsburg · 31,427 residents53.97
  46. 10,98518032in Catasauqua · 9,555 residents53.78
  47. 11,16518072in Pen Argyl · 6,938 residents53.65
  48. 11,74718035in Cherryville · 39 residents53.23
  49. 11,92818091in Wind Gap · 6,547 residents53.11
  50. 12,79118014in Bath · 12,097 residents52.48
Open the full Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro ranking →One page, all 74 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 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

15 of 74 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access55%488,857 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 07840 Hackettstown08865 Phillipsburg18042 Easton

Preventive Care36%317,809 people

27 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Social Need / SDOH21%181,721 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 08886 Stewartsville18046 East Texas18106 Allentown

Climate / Disaster Risk9%75,636 people

10 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Environmental Hazard6%50,702 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 07880 Vienna18230 Junedale18624 Lake Harmony

Each fifth is about 15 of this metro’s 74 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 882,545 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.

Some domains are not shown: Chronic Disease Burden, Risk Behavior, Mental Health, Disability. Too few of this metro’s ZIP codes carry enough measured data on them to divide into fifths, so they are left out rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.

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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 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.