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ZipVitals

How the Appleton, WI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202623 of 23 ZIP codes scored · 0.24M residents represented

Score snapshot

57.21Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
55.71Median scoremiddle of 23 scored ZIPs
63.07Highest score54913 · Appleton
50.84Lowest score54160 · Potter
12.23Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#59Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
5%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.01M of 0.24M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.24MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.24MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Appleton, WI metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Appleton, WI metro ranking →One page, all 23 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Appleton, WI 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 23 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access58%137,691 people

Standing highest: 54913 Appleton54914 Appleton54942 Greenville

Chronic Disease Burden37%87,408 people

Standing highest: 54169 Sherwood54913 Appleton54942 Greenville

Climate / Disaster Risk23%55,812 people

Standing highest: 53088 Stockbridge54123 Forest Junction54169 Sherwood

Preventive Care19%44,927 people

Standing highest: 54913 Appleton54931 Dale54942 Greenville

Social Need / SDOH18%43,405 people

Standing highest: 54169 Sherwood54913 Appleton54942 Greenville

Risk Behavior18%43,405 people

Standing highest: 54169 Sherwood54913 Appleton54931 Dale

Mental Health18%43,405 people

Standing highest: 54169 Sherwood54913 Appleton54931 Dale

Disability18%43,405 people

Standing highest: 54169 Sherwood54913 Appleton54942 Greenville

Environmental Hazard4%9,515 people

Standing highest: 53088 Stockbridge54160 Potter54165 Seymour

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 23 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 237,933 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 Appleton, WI 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.