How the Battle Creek, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Battle Creek, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202612 of 12 ZIP codes scored · 0.13M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Battle Creek, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 12 of 12- 9,28549033in Ceresco · 1,719 residents55.15
- 10,78649068in Marshall · 14,729 residents53.93
- 11,07449051in East Leroy · 2,787 residents53.71
- 14,77049029in Burlington · 1,415 residents51.05
- 15,48949015in Battle Creek · 27,765 residents50.55
- 16,83149011in Athens · 2,236 residents49.58
- 17,19349092in Tekonsha · 1,908 residents49.33
- 20,21049017in Battle Creek · 21,295 residents46.96
- 20,83349014in Battle Creek · 21,980 residents46.43
- 24,54749245in Homer · 4,547 residents42.80
- 24,82349224in Albion · 13,447 residents42.50
- 27,85649037in Battle Creek · 20,550 residents38.28
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 12 of 12- 27,85649037in Battle Creek · 20,550 residents38.28
- 24,82349224in Albion · 13,447 residents42.50
- 24,54749245in Homer · 4,547 residents42.80
- 20,83349014in Battle Creek · 21,980 residents46.43
- 20,21049017in Battle Creek · 21,295 residents46.96
- 17,19349092in Tekonsha · 1,908 residents49.33
- 16,83149011in Athens · 2,236 residents49.58
- 15,48949015in Battle Creek · 27,765 residents50.55
- 14,77049029in Burlington · 1,415 residents51.05
- 11,07449051in East Leroy · 2,787 residents53.71
- 10,78649068in Marshall · 14,729 residents53.93
- 9,28549033in Ceresco · 1,719 residents55.15
What the distribution shows
Across the Battle Creek, MI metro’s 12 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 12 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 12 of the Battle Creek, MI 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 Battle Creek, MI 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.