Ames, IA metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Ames, IA metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202619 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 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
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 19 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.