How the Auburn-Opelika, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Auburn-Opelika, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 16 ZIP codes scored · 0.19M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Auburn-Opelika, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 5,36736879in Waverly · 2,826 residents59.30
- 6,33436830in Auburn · 49,292 residents58.07
- 13,84336877in Smiths Station · 14,134 residents51.69
- 14,99336874in Salem · 9,096 residents50.90
- 16,47636870in Phenix City · 17,951 residents49.83
- 16,96036804in Opelika · 20,535 residents49.49
- 18,80236832in Auburn · 30,959 residents48.10
- 19,02436801in Opelika · 25,438 residents47.92
- 25,92636083in Franklin · 9,109 residents41.13
- 26,01536031in Fort Davis · 143 residents41.01
- 26,30136088in Tuskegee · 3,400 residents40.66
- 27,21136075in Shorter · 1,580 residents39.29
- 28,46136866in Notasulga · 3,898 residents37.13
- 28,62536039in Hardaway · 171 residents36.81
- 29,57136849in Auburn University · 5,241 residents34.44
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 29,57136849in Auburn University · 5,241 residents34.44
- 28,62536039in Hardaway · 171 residents36.81
- 28,46136866in Notasulga · 3,898 residents37.13
- 27,21136075in Shorter · 1,580 residents39.29
- 26,30136088in Tuskegee · 3,400 residents40.66
- 26,01536031in Fort Davis · 143 residents41.01
- 25,92636083in Franklin · 9,109 residents41.13
- 19,02436801in Opelika · 25,438 residents47.92
- 18,80236832in Auburn · 30,959 residents48.10
- 16,96036804in Opelika · 20,535 residents49.49
- 16,47636870in Phenix City · 17,951 residents49.83
- 14,99336874in Salem · 9,096 residents50.90
- 13,84336877in Smiths Station · 14,134 residents51.69
- 6,33436830in Auburn · 49,292 residents58.07
- 5,36736879in Waverly · 2,826 residents59.30
What the distribution shows
Across the Auburn-Opelika, AL metro’s 16 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 15 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 15 of the Auburn-Opelika, AL 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 Auburn-Opelika, AL 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.