How the Altoona, PA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Altoona, PA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202614 of 14 ZIP codes scored · 0.12M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Altoona, PA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 14 of 14- 4,75916648in Hollidaysburg · 14,904 residents60.13
- 8,32516665in Newry · 253 residents55.96
- 15,67616635in Duncansville · 12,003 residents50.42
- 16,45916686in Tyrone · 13,427 residents49.85
- 17,67016673in Roaring Spring · 5,204 residents49.00
- 17,94916662in Martinsburg · 6,069 residents48.78
- 18,26416617in Bellwood · 2,392 residents48.53
- 20,14816631in Curryville · 57 residents47.01
- 22,24316637in East Freedom · 2,345 residents45.15
- 22,36816602in Altoona · 26,352 residents45.03
- 26,03416601in Altoona · 33,515 residents40.99
- 26,05316682in Sproul · 402 residents40.97
- 26,43816625in Claysburg · 3,147 residents40.46
- 26,56316693in Williamsburg · 3,795 residents40.28
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 14 of 14- 26,56316693in Williamsburg · 3,795 residents40.28
- 26,43816625in Claysburg · 3,147 residents40.46
- 26,05316682in Sproul · 402 residents40.97
- 26,03416601in Altoona · 33,515 residents40.99
- 22,36816602in Altoona · 26,352 residents45.03
- 22,24316637in East Freedom · 2,345 residents45.15
- 20,14816631in Curryville · 57 residents47.01
- 18,26416617in Bellwood · 2,392 residents48.53
- 17,94916662in Martinsburg · 6,069 residents48.78
- 17,67016673in Roaring Spring · 5,204 residents49.00
- 16,45916686in Tyrone · 13,427 residents49.85
- 15,67616635in Duncansville · 12,003 residents50.42
- 8,32516665in Newry · 253 residents55.96
- 4,75916648in Hollidaysburg · 14,904 residents60.13
What the distribution shows
Across the Altoona, PA metro’s 14 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 14 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.
The Altoona, PA metro has no in-metro comparison group: too few of its ZIP codes carry measured data across all nine scoring domains for the others to be placed against them, so the domain-by-domain breakdown that other metro pages carry is not available here. Every one of its ZIP codes still carries its own Score and its national standing.
Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →
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 Altoona, PA 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.