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How the Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202625 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.16M residents represented

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Score snapshot

61.23Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
61.86Median scoremiddle of 25 scored ZIPs
69.62Highest score01035 · Hadley
49.35Lowest score01082 · Ware
20.28Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#15Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
6%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.01M of 0.16M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.16MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.16MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 25 of 25
  1. 65801035in Hadley · 5,306 residents69.62
  2. 1,85701053in Leeds · 2,304 residents65.38
  3. 1,97401084in West Chesterfield · 97 residents65.09
  4. 2,05301012in Chesterfield · 397 residents64.87
  5. 2,33801032in Goshen · 509 residents64.21
  6. 2,37901096in Williamsburg · 2,580 residents64.13
  7. 2,83901060in Northampton · 16,492 residents63.24
  8. 2,97801062in Florence · 9,816 residents62.99
  9. 3,26101002in Amherst Town · 26,370 residents62.45
  10. 3,47101073in Southampton · 6,230 residents62.10
  11. 3,51701075in South Hadley · 17,754 residents62.00
  12. 3,57801003in Amherst Town · 13,510 residents61.89
  13. 3,59201243in Middlefield · 173 residents61.86
  14. 3,63801007in Belchertown · 15,419 residents61.80
  15. 3,82101098in Worthington · 979 residents61.48
  16. 3,82901038in Hatfield · 2,491 residents61.47
  17. 3,93001088in West Hatfield · 702 residents61.32
  18. 4,02801070in Plainfield · 575 residents61.17
  19. 4,04001026in Cummington · 1,014 residents61.14
  20. 4,27101066in North Hatfield · 115 residents60.79
  21. 4,30601063in Northampton · 2,272 residents60.72
  22. 4,38101033in Granby · 6,080 residents60.63
  23. 5,70701027in Easthampton Town · 17,716 residents58.85
  24. 8,86701050in Huntington · 2,529 residents55.50
  25. 17,15801082in Ware · 10,392 residents49.35
Open the full Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metro ranking →One page, all 25 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metro’s 25 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 25 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 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA 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 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA 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.