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How the Charlottesville, VA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202636 of 37 ZIP codes scored · 0.23M residents represented

Score snapshot

60.14Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
56.85Median scoremiddle of 36 scored ZIPs
68.19Highest score22911 · Charlottesville
43.97Lowest score24599 · Wingina
24.23Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#22Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
9%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.02M 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 Charlottesville, VA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 36 of 36
  1. 97422911in Charlottesville · 19,107 residents68.19
  2. 1,25922932in Crozet · 9,148 residents67.11
  3. 1,71822947in Keswick · 5,256 residents65.76
  4. 1,92922936in Earlysville · 6,983 residents65.18
  5. 2,40522959in North Garden · 1,923 residents64.09
  6. 2,51822901in Charlottesville · 37,237 residents63.89
  7. 2,76622958in Nellysford · 2,306 residents63.38
  8. 3,15822902in Charlottesville · 23,486 residents62.65
  9. 3,32422940in Free Union · 1,066 residents62.34
  10. 4,32222904in Charlottesville · 5,729 residents60.70
  11. 5,09322943in Greenwood · 402 residents59.68
  12. 5,64522963in Palmyra · 16,896 residents58.94
  13. 5,68322946in Keene · 195 residents58.89
  14. 5,91722931in Covesville · 145 residents58.58
  15. 6,25122903in Charlottesville · 40,372 residents58.17
  16. 6,88022937in Esmont · 1,743 residents57.40
  17. 7,11122974in Troy · 5,309 residents57.17
  18. 7,33022923in Barboursville · 6,435 residents56.95
  19. 7,50522920in Afton · 3,608 residents56.75
  20. 9,34422935in Dyke · 575 residents55.10
  21. 9,93322968in Ruckersville · 11,235 residents54.61
  22. 10,57124590in Scottsville · 8,229 residents54.10
  23. 13,16722949in Lovingston · 1,426 residents52.22
  24. 13,55022967in Roseland · 2,413 residents51.93
  25. 13,56422964in Piney River · 99 residents51.92
  26. 13,88722976in Tyro · 149 residents51.66
  27. 15,38024464in Montebello · 190 residents50.63
  28. 15,38622969in Schuyler · 1,429 residents50.62
  29. 15,46422938in Faber · 884 residents50.57
  30. 17,11322971in Shipman · 2,359 residents49.38
  31. 17,51922973in Stanardsville · 6,292 residents49.10
  32. 17,73023084in Kents Store · 1,652 residents48.96
  33. 18,81223055in Fork Union · 1,004 residents48.09
  34. 19,59923022in Bremo Bluff · 1,006 residents47.46
  35. 20,40622922in Arrington · 2,226 residents46.80
  36. 23,45024599in Wingina · 470 residents43.97
Open the full Charlottesville, VA 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 Charlottesville, VA 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.

Chronic Disease Burden64%147,371 people

Standing highest: 22902 Charlottesville22903 Charlottesville22904 Charlottesville

Healthcare Access63%144,751 people

Standing highest: 22902 Charlottesville22903 Charlottesville22911 Charlottesville

Disability48%108,869 people

Standing highest: 22904 Charlottesville22911 Charlottesville22932 Crozet

Social Need / SDOH44%101,616 people

Standing highest: 22911 Charlottesville22958 Nellysford22959 North Garden

Risk Behavior36%83,026 people

Standing highest: 22932 Crozet22947 Keswick22958 Nellysford

Mental Health36%82,155 people

Standing highest: 22936 Earlysville22947 Keswick22958 Nellysford

Preventive Care20%45,984 people

Standing highest: 22946 Keene22947 Keswick22958 Nellysford

Climate / Disaster Risk10%22,701 people

Standing highest: 22904 Charlottesville22949 Lovingston24464 Montebello

Environmental Hazard7%16,797 people

Standing highest: 22940 Free Union22976 Tyro24464 Montebello

Each fifth is about 8 of this metro’s 36 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 228,984 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 Charlottesville, VA 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.