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How the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202621 of 22 ZIP codes scored · 0.25M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.92Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
49.97Median scoremiddle of 21 scored ZIPs
60.68Highest score36561 · Orange Beach
36.90Lowest score36550 · Little River
23.77Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#125Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
48%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.12M of 0.25M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.25MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.25MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro ranking →One page, all 21 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL 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

5 of 21 ZIPs

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

Disability45%110,377 people

Standing highest: 36526 Daphne36527 Spanish Fort36561 Orange Beach

Healthcare Access41%102,130 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 36507 Bay Minette36535 Foley36551 Loxley

Social Need / SDOH36%88,528 people

Standing highest: 36542 Gulf Shores36559 Montrose36561 Orange Beach

Chronic Disease Burden34%84,727 people

Standing highest: 36526 Daphne36527 Spanish Fort36576 Silverhill

Preventive Care29%72,385 people

Standing highest: 36532 Fairhope36549 Lillian36561 Orange Beach

Risk Behavior29%72,385 people

Standing highest: 36532 Fairhope36559 Montrose36561 Orange Beach

Mental Health29%72,385 people

Standing highest: 36549 Lillian36559 Montrose36561 Orange Beach

Climate / Disaster Risk25%61,151 people

Standing highest: 36526 Daphne36576 Silverhill36580 Summerdale

Environmental Hazard17%41,060 people

Standing highest: 36511 Bon Secour36550 Little River36579 Stockton

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 247,003 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 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL 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.