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How the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202628 of 28 ZIP codes scored · 0.17M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.82Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.48Median scoremiddle of 28 scored ZIPs
58.94Highest score24073 · Christiansburg
46.06Lowest score24301 · Pulaski
12.87Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#128Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
46%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.08M of 0.17M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.17MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.17MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro ranking →One page, all 28 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro. Nine domains make it up, and they are not spread the same way across the people who live here. Each row divides this metro's ZIP codes into fifths by how they stand against each other on that domain, then counts who lives at each end. If a domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents, every row would read about 20%.

The highest-standing fifth

6 of 28 ZIPs

Share of the metro's residents living in the fifth of its ZIP codes that stand highest on each domain.

Chronic Disease Burden62%107,325 people

Standing highest: 24060 Blacksburg24073 Christiansburg24142 Radford

Risk Behavior51%87,858 people

Standing highest: 24060 Blacksburg24073 Christiansburg24149 Riner

Healthcare Access50%86,791 people

Standing highest: 24073 Christiansburg24084 Dublin24301 Pulaski

Disability50%86,122 people

Standing highest: 24060 Blacksburg24073 Christiansburg24149 Riner

Social Need / SDOH23%39,237 people

Standing highest: 24073 Christiansburg24086 Eggleston24093 Glen Lyn

Climate / Disaster Risk9%15,763 people

Standing highest: 24072 Check24079 Copper Hill24380 Willis

Mental Health9%15,194 people

Standing highest: 24058 Belspring24079 Copper Hill24149 Riner

Environmental Hazard9%14,990 people

Standing highest: 24072 Check24079 Copper Hill24105 Indian Valley

Preventive Care6%10,836 people

Standing highest: 24058 Belspring24138 Pilot24149 Riner

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 28 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 173,116 residents. A ZIP code is compared here only if it carries a resident count to weight it by and enough measured data on that domain — the rest are left out of that domain’s fifths rather than filled in from a coarser geography, which is why this count can sit just below the metro’s scored total.

The mark shows 20% — where a row would sit if that domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents.

Each ZIP code is compared with the other ZIP codes in this metro that are measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. Percentages are rounded; higher is healthier in every domain.

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 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA 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.