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How the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 2026215 of 217 ZIP codes scored · 4.4M residents represented

Score snapshot

52.55Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
54.72Median scoremiddle of 215 scored ZIPs
74.40Highest score48098 · Troy
22.35Lowest score48218 · River Rouge
52.05Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#164Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
45%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.0M of 4.4M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.1MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs24% of the metro
1.2MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs29% of the metro
3ZIPs in the national top 100led by 48098 · Troy

The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 215
  1. 7248098in Troy · 20,936 residents74.40
  2. 7348070in Huntington Woods · 6,328 residents74.37
  3. 9448084in Troy · 15,960 residents73.98
  4. 15648069in Pleasant Ridge · 2,602 residents73.22
  5. 17648374in Novi · 17,672 residents72.90
  6. 24848301in Bloomfield Hills · 14,682 residents72.22
  7. 28048306in Rochester Hills · 28,389 residents72.00
  8. 29448375in Novi · 24,029 residents71.94
  9. 34148009in Birmingham · 21,772 residents71.53
  10. 34548304in Bloomfield Hills · 17,387 residents71.52
  11. 38348025in Beverly Hills · 14,734 residents71.26
  12. 42848335in Farmington · 25,077 residents70.93
  13. 55548302in Bloomfield Hills · 17,505 residents70.19
  14. 58648168in Northville · 25,038 residents70.03
  15. 62048331in Farmington · 21,562 residents69.85
  16. 72348085in Troy · 27,231 residents69.24
  17. 76348360in Lake Orion · 12,116 residents69.01
  18. 83348363in Oakland · 7,362 residents68.71
  19. 83448307in Rochester Hills · 44,714 residents68.70
  20. 94648067in Royal Oak · 24,868 residents68.30
  21. 97048167in Northville · 24,713 residents68.21
  22. 99748072in Berkley · 15,149 residents68.09
  23. 1,10848230in Grosse Pointe Park · 17,174 residents67.64
  24. 1,13248236in Grosse Pointe Woods · 31,435 residents67.50
  25. 1,42148165in New Hudson · 9,566 residents66.56
  26. 1,50048334in Farmington · 19,618 residents66.35
  27. 1,53948359in Auburn Hills · 10,401 residents66.23
  28. 1,69348322in West Bloomfield · 32,885 residents65.80
  29. 1,70948323in Orchard Lake Village · 17,235 residents65.77
  30. 1,78648309in Rochester Hills · 30,685 residents65.56
  31. 1,86448073in Royal Oak · 33,106 residents65.36
  32. 1,88748188in Canton · 45,665 residents65.31
  33. 1,92448324in Orchard Lake Village · 17,098 residents65.19
  34. 1,98648348in Clarkston · 24,574 residents65.04
  35. 2,04648370in Oxford · 1,777 residents64.88
  36. 2,05548178in South Lyon · 37,789 residents64.87
  37. 2,26748377in Novi · 19,816 residents64.35
  38. 2,32448170in Plymouth · 40,076 residents64.24
  39. 2,40248143in Lakeland · 139 residents64.10
  40. 2,43048187in Canton · 53,376 residents64.02
  41. 2,45448083in Troy · 23,771 residents63.99
  42. 2,46348382in Commerce Township · 24,479 residents63.97
  43. 2,55348380in Milford · 7,125 residents63.84
  44. 2,81148220in Ferndale · 21,527 residents63.29
  45. 2,81548381in Milford · 14,094 residents63.28
  46. 2,89648017in Clawson · 11,350 residents63.14
  47. 2,90948336in Farmington · 26,432 residents63.10
  48. 3,04448116in Brighton · 27,289 residents62.88
  49. 3,17948362in Lake Orion · 14,966 residents62.59
  50. 3,25548356in Highland · 8,365 residents62.46
Open the full Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro ranking →One page, all 215 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI 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

43 of 215 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access26%1,134,797 people

10 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Chronic Disease Burden22%953,739 people

Standing highest: 48067 Royal Oak48084 Troy48374 Novi

Disability21%908,471 people

Standing highest: 48069 Pleasant Ridge48070 Huntington Woods48084 Troy

Social Need / SDOH20%854,828 people

Standing highest: 48009 Birmingham48025 Beverly Hills48070 Huntington Woods

Risk Behavior19%843,884 people

Standing highest: 48098 Troy48301 Bloomfield Hills48304 Bloomfield Hills

Mental Health19%835,003 people

Standing highest: 48084 Troy48098 Troy48304 Bloomfield Hills

Preventive Care18%787,487 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 48028 Harsens Island48143 Lakeland48301 Bloomfield Hills

Climate / Disaster Risk16%674,254 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 48059 Fort Gratiot48727 Clifford48760 Silverwood

Environmental Hazard10%426,718 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 48028 Harsens Island48143 Lakeland48816 Cohoctah

Each fifth is about 43 of this metro’s 215 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 4,364,095 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI 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.