How the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202619 of 19 ZIP codes scored · 0.22M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Athens-Clarke County, GA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 19 of 19- 1,26230677in Watkinsville · 22,616 residents67.10
- 1,84930621in North High Shoals · 6,148 residents65.41
- 2,02630622in Bogart · 11,280 residents64.94
- 7,54530606in Athens · 47,865 residents56.71
- 10,41830667in Maxeys · 834 residents54.22
- 12,52230683in Winterville · 7,298 residents52.68
- 12,65430605in Athens · 41,544 residents52.58
- 14,54230628in Colbert · 6,624 residents51.20
- 15,13130648in Lexington · 3,543 residents50.81
- 15,45430607in Athens · 10,700 residents50.58
- 18,26330627in Carlton · 2,470 residents48.53
- 18,62130619in Arnoldsville · 1,737 residents48.24
- 18,80330630in Crawford · 2,607 residents48.10
- 20,58830646in Hull · 8,460 residents46.65
- 24,51330609in Athens · 3,310 residents42.84
- 24,78530602in Athens · 1,467 residents42.54
- 24,98130629in Comer · 5,335 residents42.29
- 25,59630633in Danielsville · 9,033 residents41.57
- 26,12730601in Athens · 25,899 residents40.88
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 19 of 19- 26,12730601in Athens · 25,899 residents40.88
- 25,59630633in Danielsville · 9,033 residents41.57
- 24,98130629in Comer · 5,335 residents42.29
- 24,78530602in Athens · 1,467 residents42.54
- 24,51330609in Athens · 3,310 residents42.84
- 20,58830646in Hull · 8,460 residents46.65
- 18,80330630in Crawford · 2,607 residents48.10
- 18,62130619in Arnoldsville · 1,737 residents48.24
- 18,26330627in Carlton · 2,470 residents48.53
- 15,45430607in Athens · 10,700 residents50.58
- 15,13130648in Lexington · 3,543 residents50.81
- 14,54230628in Colbert · 6,624 residents51.20
- 12,65430605in Athens · 41,544 residents52.58
- 12,52230683in Winterville · 7,298 residents52.68
- 10,41830667in Maxeys · 834 residents54.22
- 7,54530606in Athens · 47,865 residents56.71
- 2,02630622in Bogart · 11,280 residents64.94
- 1,84930621in North High Shoals · 6,148 residents65.41
- 1,26230677in Watkinsville · 22,616 residents67.10
What the distribution shows
Across the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro’s 19 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 19 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.
Only 19 of the Athens-Clarke County, GA metro's ZIP codes can be compared with each other across the nine scoring domains — too few to divide into fifths without a single ZIP code swinging the result — so the domain-by-domain breakdown that larger metro pages carry is left out here rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.
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 Athens-Clarke County, GA 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.