How the Bay City, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Bay City, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 20269 of 10 ZIP codes scored · 0.10M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Bay City, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 9 of 9- 6,09348611in Auburn · 6,093 residents58.37
- 9,40348631in Kawkawlin · 3,681 residents55.03
- 12,20648634in Linwood · 4,334 residents52.91
- 12,65848732in Essexville · 11,340 residents52.58
- 14,18048747in Munger · 1,549 residents51.46
- 15,01648706in Bay City · 38,974 residents50.89
- 15,83248650in Pinconning · 6,510 residents50.31
- 16,36848613in Bentley · 1,081 residents49.92
- 24,13748708in Bay City · 25,635 residents43.27
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 9 of 9- 24,13748708in Bay City · 25,635 residents43.27
- 16,36848613in Bentley · 1,081 residents49.92
- 15,83248650in Pinconning · 6,510 residents50.31
- 15,01648706in Bay City · 38,974 residents50.89
- 14,18048747in Munger · 1,549 residents51.46
- 12,65848732in Essexville · 11,340 residents52.58
- 12,20648634in Linwood · 4,334 residents52.91
- 9,40348631in Kawkawlin · 3,681 residents55.03
- 6,09348611in Auburn · 6,093 residents58.37
What the distribution shows
Across the Bay City, MI metro’s 10 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 9 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 9 of the Bay City, 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 Bay City, 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.