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Auburn-Opelika, AL metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Auburn-Opelika, AL 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 202615 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 5,36036879in Waverly · 2,826 residents59.31
- 6,33136830in Auburn · 49,292 residents58.08
- 13,83636877in Smiths Station · 14,134 residents51.70
- 14,99336874in Salem · 9,096 residents50.91
- 16,47636870in Phenix City · 17,951 residents49.84
- 16,95536804in Opelika · 20,535 residents49.49
- 18,80336832in Auburn · 30,959 residents48.11
- 19,02336801in Opelika · 25,438 residents47.93
- 25,91936083in Franklin · 9,109 residents41.14
- 26,01336031in Fort Davis · 143 residents41.02
- 26,29436088in Tuskegee · 3,400 residents40.67
- 27,20536075in Shorter · 1,580 residents39.29
- 28,46236866in Notasulga · 3,898 residents37.13
- 28,62136039in Hardaway · 171 residents36.81
- 29,56436849in Auburn University · 5,241 residents34.44
Don’t see a ZIP code you expected? Not every ZIP carries a Score — 1 of this metro's 16 don’t have enough measured data across the nine health domains, and PO-box-only ZIPs aren’t mapped areas. Any ZIP’s own page explains its standing. Look up any ZIP code →
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 15 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.