How the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202616 of 16 ZIP codes scored · 0.43M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 16 of 16- 6,63678597in South Padre Island · 2,935 residents57.71
- 6,87778575in Olmito · 4,575 residents57.40
- 13,73378526in Brownsville · 60,012 residents51.78
- 16,22578535in Combes · 425 residents50.02
- 18,39078552in Harlingen · 42,332 residents48.42
- 19,07378583in Rio Hondo · 5,236 residents47.89
- 19,69278578in Port Isabel · 10,016 residents47.38
- 21,56778566in Los Fresnos · 25,110 residents45.78
- 23,14278550in Harlingen · 53,335 residents44.28
- 25,00078520in Brownsville · 64,740 residents42.26
- 26,68678567in Los Indios · 323 residents40.11
- 26,79078559in La Feria · 12,169 residents39.95
- 27,16078586in San Benito · 50,964 residents39.37
- 27,68978593in Santa Rosa · 5,455 residents38.56
- 28,90478521in Brownsville · 87,380 residents36.21
- 29,92378592in Santa Maria · 677 residents33.42
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 16 of 16- 29,92378592in Santa Maria · 677 residents33.42
- 28,90478521in Brownsville · 87,380 residents36.21
- 27,68978593in Santa Rosa · 5,455 residents38.56
- 27,16078586in San Benito · 50,964 residents39.37
- 26,79078559in La Feria · 12,169 residents39.95
- 26,68678567in Los Indios · 323 residents40.11
- 25,00078520in Brownsville · 64,740 residents42.26
- 23,14278550in Harlingen · 53,335 residents44.28
- 21,56778566in Los Fresnos · 25,110 residents45.78
- 19,69278578in Port Isabel · 10,016 residents47.38
- 19,07378583in Rio Hondo · 5,236 residents47.89
- 18,39078552in Harlingen · 42,332 residents48.42
- 16,22578535in Combes · 425 residents50.02
- 13,73378526in Brownsville · 60,012 residents51.78
- 6,87778575in Olmito · 4,575 residents57.40
- 6,63678597in South Padre Island · 2,935 residents57.71
What the distribution shows
Across the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro’s 16 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 16 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 16 of the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 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 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 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.