How the Columbus, IN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Columbus, IN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 20268 of 8 ZIP codes scored · 0.08M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Columbus, IN metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 8 of 8- 10,91747203in Columbus · 26,200 residents53.83
- 12,30247247in Jonesville · 129 residents52.85
- 14,62947201in Columbus · 47,900 residents51.13
- 16,70447232in Elizabethtown · 2,316 residents49.66
- 16,74147244in Hartsville · 533 residents49.63
- 20,17347246in Hope · 4,326 residents46.99
- 20,32747226in Clifford · 165 residents46.86
- 28,17947280in Taylorsville · 1,248 residents37.73
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 8 of 8- 28,17947280in Taylorsville · 1,248 residents37.73
- 20,32747226in Clifford · 165 residents46.86
- 20,17347246in Hope · 4,326 residents46.99
- 16,74147244in Hartsville · 533 residents49.63
- 16,70447232in Elizabethtown · 2,316 residents49.66
- 14,62947201in Columbus · 47,900 residents51.13
- 12,30247247in Jonesville · 129 residents52.85
- 10,91747203in Columbus · 26,200 residents53.83
What the distribution shows
Across the Columbus, IN metro’s 8 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 8 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 8 of the Columbus, IN 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 Columbus, IN 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.