How the Ames, IA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Ames, IA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202619 of 19 ZIP codes scored · 0.12M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Ames, IA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 19 of 19- 2,22950105in Gilbert · 1,487 residents64.44
- 2,28050124in Huxley · 4,859 residents64.34
- 2,74450046in Cambridge · 1,554 residents63.43
- 3,12350244in Slater · 1,729 residents62.71
- 3,33550243in Sheldahl · 361 residents62.31
- 3,48950134in Kelley · 770 residents62.06
- 4,90550010in Ames · 33,799 residents59.95
- 5,04250248in Story City · 4,216 residents59.74
- 5,72050236in Roland · 1,761 residents58.84
- 7,49950055in Collins · 1,102 residents56.76
- 7,81250201in Nevada · 8,320 residents56.45
- 8,40250056in Colo · 1,003 residents55.88
- 9,06950223in Pilot Mound · 236 residents55.32
- 9,59050012in Ames · 1,913 residents54.87
- 9,62850014in Ames · 32,958 residents54.85
- 9,83550212in Ogden · 2,993 residents54.70
- 9,99250278in Zearing · 891 residents54.56
- 10,76250036in Boone · 16,154 residents53.95
- 10,92750154in McCallsburg · 394 residents53.82
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 19 of 19- 10,92750154in McCallsburg · 394 residents53.82
- 10,76250036in Boone · 16,154 residents53.95
- 9,99250278in Zearing · 891 residents54.56
- 9,83550212in Ogden · 2,993 residents54.70
- 9,62850014in Ames · 32,958 residents54.85
- 9,59050012in Ames · 1,913 residents54.87
- 9,06950223in Pilot Mound · 236 residents55.32
- 8,40250056in Colo · 1,003 residents55.88
- 7,81250201in Nevada · 8,320 residents56.45
- 7,49950055in Collins · 1,102 residents56.76
- 5,72050236in Roland · 1,761 residents58.84
- 5,04250248in Story City · 4,216 residents59.74
- 4,90550010in Ames · 33,799 residents59.95
- 3,48950134in Kelley · 770 residents62.06
- 3,33550243in Sheldahl · 361 residents62.31
- 3,12350244in Slater · 1,729 residents62.71
- 2,74450046in Cambridge · 1,554 residents63.43
- 2,28050124in Huxley · 4,859 residents64.34
- 2,22950105in Gilbert · 1,487 residents64.44
What the distribution shows
Across the Ames, IA metro’s 19 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 19 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.
Only 19 of the Ames, IA metro's ZIP codes can be compared with each other across the nine scoring domains — too few to divide into fifths without a single ZIP code swinging the result — so the domain-by-domain breakdown that larger metro pages carry is left out here rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.
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 Ames, IA 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.