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ZipVitals

How the Burlington, NC metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 20269 of 9 ZIP codes scored · 0.19M residents represented

Score snapshot

52.28Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.84Median scoremiddle of 9 scored ZIPs
58.96Highest score27201 · Alamance
41.92Lowest score27217 · Burlington
17.04Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#170Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
43%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.08M 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 Burlington, NC metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Burlington, NC metro ranking →One page, all 9 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Burlington, NC metro’s 9 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 Burlington, NC 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 Burlington, NC 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.