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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

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#ZIP code · locatorScore
  1. 2,22650105in Gilbert · 1,487 residents64.45
  2. 2,27650124in Huxley · 4,859 residents64.35
  3. 2,74550046in Cambridge · 1,554 residents63.44
  4. 3,11550244in Slater · 1,729 residents62.73
  5. 3,33250243in Sheldahl · 361 residents62.31
  6. 3,47050134in Kelley · 770 residents62.09
  7. 4,90150010in Ames · 33,799 residents59.96
  8. 5,03750248in Story City · 4,216 residents59.75
  9. 5,71450236in Roland · 1,761 residents58.85
  10. 7,50550055in Collins · 1,102 residents56.76
  11. 7,80850201in Nevada · 8,320 residents56.46
  12. 8,40150056in Colo · 1,003 residents55.88
  13. 9,05650223in Pilot Mound · 236 residents55.33
  14. 9,58450012in Ames · 1,913 residents54.88
  15. 9,62250014in Ames · 32,958 residents54.86
  16. 9,83450212in Ogden · 2,993 residents54.70
  17. 9,98850278in Zearing · 891 residents54.56
  18. 10,72950036in Boone · 16,154 residents53.98
  19. 10,93150154in 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.