How the Dalton, GA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Dalton, GA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 20269 of 10 ZIP codes scored · 0.14M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Dalton, GA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 9 of 9- 12,96430740in Rocky Face · 8,556 residents52.36
- 13,91730710in Cohutta · 7,360 residents51.64
- 17,70430720in Dalton · 27,249 residents48.97
- 17,88630755in Tunnel Hill · 9,813 residents48.83
- 21,29030705in Chatsworth · 33,726 residents46.05
- 21,77930751in Tennga · 335 residents45.60
- 22,77330708in Cisco · 285 residents44.64
- 23,05730711in Crandall · 3,235 residents44.36
- 25,15830721in Dalton · 53,060 residents42.06
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 9 of 9- 25,15830721in Dalton · 53,060 residents42.06
- 23,05730711in Crandall · 3,235 residents44.36
- 22,77330708in Cisco · 285 residents44.64
- 21,77930751in Tennga · 335 residents45.60
- 21,29030705in Chatsworth · 33,726 residents46.05
- 17,88630755in Tunnel Hill · 9,813 residents48.83
- 17,70430720in Dalton · 27,249 residents48.97
- 13,91730710in Cohutta · 7,360 residents51.64
- 12,96430740in Rocky Face · 8,556 residents52.36
What the distribution shows
Across the Dalton, GA metro’s 10 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 Dalton, GA 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 Dalton, GA 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.