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
People & national context
The Burlington, NC metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 9 of 9- 5,62327201in Alamance · 139 residents58.96
- 6,67827244in Elon · 16,329 residents57.66
- 7,24927302in Mebane · 35,418 residents57.02
- 8,99827215in Burlington · 47,102 residents55.38
- 10,90027349in Snow Camp · 7,061 residents53.84
- 12,22327253in Graham · 33,114 residents52.90
- 14,36727258in Haw River · 6,391 residents51.34
- 22,57227340in Saxapahaw · 48 residents44.85
- 25,27327217in Burlington · 41,406 residents41.92
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 9 of 9- 25,27327217in Burlington · 41,406 residents41.92
- 22,57227340in Saxapahaw · 48 residents44.85
- 14,36727258in Haw River · 6,391 residents51.34
- 12,22327253in Graham · 33,114 residents52.90
- 10,90027349in Snow Camp · 7,061 residents53.84
- 8,99827215in Burlington · 47,102 residents55.38
- 7,24927302in Mebane · 35,418 residents57.02
- 6,67827244in Elon · 16,329 residents57.66
- 5,62327201in Alamance · 139 residents58.96
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.