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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 residents65.10
- 2,90228804in Woodfin · 25,776 residents63.12
- 4,29628787in Weaverville · 22,809 residents60.74
- 4,35128805in Asheville · 19,993 residents60.66
- 4,49528791in Hendersonville · 15,108 residents60.48
- 4,67928759in Mills River · 7,555 residents60.24
- 4,73928711in Black Mountain · 12,663 residents60.17
- 5,18428732in Fletcher · 19,279 residents59.55
- 5,54328739in Hendersonville · 20,843 residents59.07
- 5,59928730in Fairview · 7,605 residents58.99
- 5,95728803in Asheville · 33,718 residents58.55
- 6,20828709in Barnardsville · 2,260 residents58.24
- 6,27528704in Arden · 24,138 residents58.15
- 6,94128806in Asheville · 43,433 residents57.35
- 7,39328742in Horse Shoe · 2,710 residents56.88
- 7,55128790in Zirconia · 3,241 residents56.70
- 7,80328754in Mars Hill · 9,682 residents56.47
- 9,39328778in Swannanoa · 13,536 residents55.04
- 9,61828735in Gerton · 124 residents54.86
- 10,39528801in Asheville · 14,691 residents54.24
- 10,55328715in Candler · 30,328 residents54.12
- 11,75828753in Marshall · 10,389 residents53.22
- 11,94028729in Etowah · 3,681 residents53.10
- 13,44028748in Leicester · 12,230 residents52.01
- 14,76428701in Alexander · 5,786 residents51.06
- 14,95928731in Flat Rock · 8,672 residents50.93
- 15,77928743in Hot Springs · 2,211 residents50.34
- 16,47828792in Hendersonville · 36,645 residents49.84
- 23,27828726in 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.