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How the Bowling Green, KY metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Bowling Green, KY metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202617 of 19 ZIP codes scored · 0.19M residents represented

Score snapshot

40.33Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
41.56Median scoremiddle of 17 scored ZIPs
55.51Highest score42103 · Bowling Green
23.61Lowest score42275 · Roundhill
31.90Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#373Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
85%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.16M of 0.19M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.19MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.19MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Bowling Green, KY metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Bowling Green, KY metro ranking →One page, all 17 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Bowling Green, KY metro’s 19 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 17 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.

The Bowling Green, KY metro has no in-metro comparison group: too few of its ZIP codes carry measured data across all nine scoring domains for the others to be placed against them, so the domain-by-domain breakdown that other metro pages carry is not available here. Every one of its ZIP codes still carries its own Score and its national standing.

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 Bowling Green, KY 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.