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How the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202636 of 38 ZIP codes scored · 0.23M residents represented

Score snapshot

61.32Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
60.05Median scoremiddle of 36 scored ZIPs
69.61Highest score05465 · Jericho
46.54Lowest score05471 · Montgomery Center
23.07Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#14Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
19%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.04M of 0.23M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.23MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.23MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 36 of 36
  1. 66305465in Jericho · 5,735 residents69.61
  2. 85605445in Charlotte · 3,916 residents68.62
  3. 86005403in South Burlington · 20,614 residents68.60
  4. 89205495in Williston · 10,956 residents68.48
  5. 99505477in Richmond · 4,454 residents68.11
  6. 1,05705482in Shelburne · 7,969 residents67.82
  7. 1,34605462in Huntington · 1,810 residents66.79
  8. 1,38405494in Westford · 1,603 residents66.67
  9. 1,42605489in Underhill · 3,484 residents66.54
  10. 1,63905452in Essex Junction · 22,626 residents65.97
  11. 1,65705461in Hinesburg · 4,898 residents65.91
  12. 2,12405408in Burlington · 10,019 residents64.68
  13. 2,44005486in South Hero · 1,500 residents64.01
  14. 2,90805458in Grand Isle · 2,278 residents63.10
  15. 3,09105454in Fairfax · 5,364 residents62.77
  16. 3,55505404in Winooski · 8,293 residents61.93
  17. 4,35405446in Winooski · 16,452 residents60.66
  18. 4,60505448in East Fairfield · 1,010 residents60.34
  19. 5,02505468in Milton · 13,324 residents59.76
  20. 5,60205441in Bakersfield · 540 residents58.99
  21. 6,48405455in Fairfield · 1,286 residents57.90
  22. 7,34105401in Burlington · 31,662 residents56.93
  23. 8,14105440in Alburgh · 1,832 residents56.12
  24. 8,38305474in North Hero · 1,263 residents55.90
  25. 8,84305439in Colchester · 1,228 residents55.52
  26. 9,25505463in Isle La Motte · 577 residents55.17
  27. 11,57905478in St. Albans · 15,580 residents53.34
  28. 11,78205405in Burlington · 3,136 residents53.20
  29. 11,85605457in Franklin · 1,696 residents53.15
  30. 12,86505483in Sheldon · 1,717 residents52.43
  31. 14,83005488in Swanton · 8,469 residents51.01
  32. 14,92305450in Enosburg Falls · 5,428 residents50.95
  33. 17,45805459in Highgate Center · 1,925 residents49.14
  34. 19,31305476in Richford · 3,218 residents47.70
  35. 20,03505447in East Berkshire · 120 residents47.10
  36. 20,71505471in Montgomery Center · 719 residents46.54
Open the full Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro ranking →One page, all 36 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Burlington-South Burlington, VT 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

8 of 36 ZIPs

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

Social Need / SDOH57%128,591 people

Standing highest: 05403 South Burlington05408 Burlington05495 Williston

Healthcare Access50%114,225 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 05401 Burlington05404 Winooski05478 St. Albans

Chronic Disease Burden34%76,932 people

Standing highest: 05401 Burlington05405 Burlington05439 Colchester

Risk Behavior30%67,147 people

Standing highest: 05445 Charlotte05465 Jericho05482 Shelburne

Mental Health25%56,452 people

Standing highest: 05445 Charlotte05482 Shelburne05486 South Hero

Disability25%56,333 people

Standing highest: 05445 Charlotte05465 Jericho05477 Richmond

Climate / Disaster Risk21%47,009 people

14 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Preventive Care17%39,355 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 05445 Charlotte05482 Shelburne05486 South Hero

Environmental Hazard6%13,725 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 05441 Bakersfield05463 Isle La Motte05465 Jericho

Each fifth is about 8 of this metro’s 36 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 226,701 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 Burlington-South Burlington, VT 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.