How the Decatur, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Decatur, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 15 ZIP codes scored · 0.16M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Decatur, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 15,55935603in Decatur · 32,179 residents50.50
- 16,09435775in Valhermoso Springs · 385 residents50.11
- 17,25735640in Hartselle · 27,344 residents49.28
- 19,66235622in Falkville · 6,830 residents47.41
- 19,70835673in Trinity · 7,250 residents47.36
- 20,20735754in Laceys Spring · 5,556 residents46.96
- 21,89035621in Eva · 3,471 residents45.48
- 23,62835651in Mount Hope · 1,429 residents43.78
- 24,29635619in Danville · 5,343 residents43.09
- 24,77435672in Town Creek · 5,709 residents42.55
- 25,08535670in Somerville · 7,760 residents42.15
- 25,57535650in Moulton · 13,473 residents41.59
- 26,52735643in Hillsboro · 3,101 residents40.34
- 26,77735618in Courtland · 1,896 residents39.97
- 29,38335601in Decatur · 35,449 residents35.03
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 29,38335601in Decatur · 35,449 residents35.03
- 26,77735618in Courtland · 1,896 residents39.97
- 26,52735643in Hillsboro · 3,101 residents40.34
- 25,57535650in Moulton · 13,473 residents41.59
- 25,08535670in Somerville · 7,760 residents42.15
- 24,77435672in Town Creek · 5,709 residents42.55
- 24,29635619in Danville · 5,343 residents43.09
- 23,62835651in Mount Hope · 1,429 residents43.78
- 21,89035621in Eva · 3,471 residents45.48
- 20,20735754in Laceys Spring · 5,556 residents46.96
- 19,70835673in Trinity · 7,250 residents47.36
- 19,66235622in Falkville · 6,830 residents47.41
- 17,25735640in Hartselle · 27,344 residents49.28
- 16,09435775in Valhermoso Springs · 385 residents50.11
- 15,55935603in Decatur · 32,179 residents50.50
What the distribution shows
Across the Decatur, AL metro’s 15 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 15 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 15 of the Decatur, AL 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 Decatur, 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.