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ZipVitals

How the Amarillo, TX metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Amarillo, TX metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202626 of 29 ZIP codes scored · 0.27M residents represented

Score snapshot

48.26Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
47.80Median scoremiddle of 26 scored ZIPs
60.90Highest score79119 · Amarillo
32.30Lowest score79107 · Amarillo
28.60Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#259Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
74%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.20M of 0.27M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.27MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.27MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Amarillo, TX metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Amarillo, TX metro ranking →One page, all 26 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Amarillo, TX 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

5 of 25 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access39%104,762 people

Standing highest: 79101 Amarillo79106 Amarillo79118 Amarillo

Chronic Disease Burden29%78,664 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 79015 Canyon79016 Canyon79119 Amarillo

Disability23%63,785 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 79016 Canyon79119 Amarillo79124 Amarillo

Social Need / SDOH18%47,818 people

Standing highest: 79068 Panhandle79119 Amarillo79124 Amarillo

Preventive Care18%47,818 people

Standing highest: 79068 Panhandle79121 Amarillo79124 Amarillo

Mental Health17%46,505 people

Standing highest: 79010 Boys Ranch79121 Amarillo79124 Amarillo

Risk Behavior17%46,457 people

Standing highest: 79119 Amarillo79121 Amarillo79124 Amarillo

Climate / Disaster Risk11%30,809 people

Standing highest: 79016 Canyon79101 Amarillo79102 Amarillo

Environmental Hazard2%5,040 people

5 ZIP codes tie at this end: 79016 Canyon79042 Happy79092 Vega79098 Wildorado79111 Amarillo

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 25 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 272,002 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 Amarillo, TX 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.