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How the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202635 of 35 ZIP codes scored · 0.82M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.35Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.59Median scoremiddle of 35 scored ZIPs
66.34Highest score33957 · Sanibel
32.67Lowest score33965 · Fort Myers
33.67Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#144Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
47%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.39M of 0.82M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.82MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.82MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 35 of 35
  1. 1,50233957in Sanibel · 6,418 residents66.34
  2. 2,31534134in Bonita Springs · 16,475 residents64.26
  3. 2,69233913in Fort Myers · 31,538 residents63.54
  4. 3,32533966in Fort Myers · 12,513 residents62.34
  5. 3,33333912in Fort Myers · 19,533 residents62.31
  6. 3,64833928in Estero · 31,926 residents61.79
  7. 5,62133908in Fort Myers · 37,423 residents58.96
  8. 5,93234135in Bonita Springs · 48,252 residents58.57
  9. 6,76833919in Fort Myers · 30,412 residents57.53
  10. 7,10633931in Fort Myers Beach · 8,350 residents57.18
  11. 7,68633956in Saint James City · 3,405 residents56.57
  12. 8,29433967in Fort Myers · 28,341 residents55.98
  13. 8,35633914in Cape Coral · 45,540 residents55.93
  14. 8,70433909in Cape Coral · 40,231 residents55.63
  15. 9,51233904in Cape Coral · 33,599 residents54.94
  16. 10,03333921in Boca Grande · 391 residents54.53
  17. 11,20333920in Alva · 9,062 residents53.62
  18. 11,24433991in Cape Coral · 27,725 residents53.59
  19. 12,39433993in Cape Coral · 35,580 residents52.79
  20. 13,51233971in Lehigh Acres · 30,790 residents51.95
  21. 14,08233990in Cape Coral · 34,713 residents51.53
  22. 17,35133972in Lehigh Acres · 17,285 residents49.23
  23. 18,29133976in Lehigh Acres · 20,277 residents48.51
  24. 18,33033905in Fort Myers · 41,381 residents48.48
  25. 18,82133907in Fort Myers · 25,033 residents48.08
  26. 18,84133974in Lehigh Acres · 19,927 residents48.07
  27. 19,47833922in Bokeelia · 4,226 residents47.57
  28. 19,66633903in North Fort Myers · 23,655 residents47.40
  29. 19,85233901in Fort Myers · 24,481 residents47.26
  30. 21,64933936in Lehigh Acres · 27,967 residents45.70
  31. 23,13633917in North Fort Myers · 33,380 residents44.28
  32. 23,80733916in Fort Myers · 27,943 residents43.59
  33. 25,73933924in Captiva · 109 residents41.41
  34. 26,17833973in Lehigh Acres · 14,392 residents40.82
  35. 30,13033965in Fort Myers · 4,836 residents32.67
Open the full Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL metro ranking →One page, all 35 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 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

7 of 35 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access25%208,108 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 33901 Fort Myers33971 Lehigh Acres33990 Cape Coral

Disability22%175,809 people

Standing highest: 33913 Fort Myers33966 Fort Myers33967 Fort Myers

Climate / Disaster Risk20%161,991 people

Standing highest: 33973 Lehigh Acres33974 Lehigh Acres33976 Lehigh Acres

Chronic Disease Burden19%156,915 people

Standing highest: 33965 Fort Myers33967 Fort Myers33976 Lehigh Acres

Social Need / SDOH16%132,638 people

Standing highest: 33912 Fort Myers33966 Fort Myers34134 Bonita Springs

Risk Behavior15%120,516 people

Standing highest: 33921 Boca Grande33957 Sanibel34134 Bonita Springs

Mental Health13%104,388 people

Standing highest: 33921 Boca Grande33957 Sanibel34134 Bonita Springs

Preventive Care11%86,498 people

Standing highest: 33921 Boca Grande33957 Sanibel34134 Bonita Springs

Environmental Hazard5%39,374 people

Standing highest: 33921 Boca Grande33922 Bokeelia33957 Sanibel

Each fifth is about 7 of this metro’s 35 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 817,109 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 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 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.