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Asheville, NC metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Asheville, NC 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 202629 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 1,97228757in Montreat · 630 residents65.09
- 2,91928804in Woodfin · 25,776 residents63.08
- 4,29728787in Weaverville · 22,809 residents60.74
- 4,37828805in Asheville · 19,993 residents60.63
- 4,49528791in Hendersonville · 15,108 residents60.47
- 4,68328759in Mills River · 7,555 residents60.23
- 4,76828711in Black Mountain · 12,663 residents60.12
- 5,19928732in Fletcher · 19,279 residents59.52
- 5,54928739in Hendersonville · 20,843 residents59.07
- 5,61928730in Fairview · 7,605 residents58.97
- 5,95528803in Asheville · 33,718 residents58.54
- 6,20728709in Barnardsville · 2,260 residents58.23
- 6,29828704in Arden · 24,138 residents58.12
- 6,96428806in Asheville · 43,433 residents57.32
- 7,40328742in Horse Shoe · 2,710 residents56.86
- 7,54928790in Zirconia · 3,241 residents56.70
- 7,79828754in Mars Hill · 9,682 residents56.47
- 9,42328778in Swannanoa · 13,536 residents55.02
- 9,61528735in Gerton · 124 residents54.86
- 10,43328801in Asheville · 14,691 residents54.21
- 10,57428715in Candler · 30,328 residents54.09
- 11,75528753in Marshall · 10,389 residents53.22
- 11,94228729in Etowah · 3,681 residents53.10
- 13,44228748in Leicester · 12,230 residents52.01
- 14,76028701in Alexander · 5,786 residents51.06
- 14,96328731in Flat Rock · 8,672 residents50.92
- 15,78628743in Hot Springs · 2,211 residents50.34
- 16,47228792in Hendersonville · 36,645 residents49.84
- 23,28428726in East Flat Rock · 4,363 residents44.14
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 29 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.