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ZipVitals

How the Dothan, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202622 of 22 ZIP codes scored · 0.15M residents represented

Score snapshot

43.63Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
41.72Median scoremiddle of 22 scored ZIPs
56.53Highest score36305 · Dothan
32.83Lowest score36340 · Geneva
23.70Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#341Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
89%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.14M of 0.15M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.15MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.15MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Dothan, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Dothan, AL metro ranking →One page, all 22 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Dothan, 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 22 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access64%98,743 people

Standing highest: 36303 Dothan36305 Dothan36310 Abbeville

Climate / Disaster Risk28%43,584 people

Standing highest: 36321 Cowarts36345 Headland36373 Shorterville

Risk Behavior26%40,642 people

Standing highest: 36305 Dothan36345 Headland36352 Newton

Chronic Disease Burden23%34,723 people

Standing highest: 36305 Dothan36345 Headland36352 Newton

Preventive Care22%34,078 people

Standing highest: 36305 Dothan36343 Gordon36352 Newton

Mental Health22%34,033 people

Standing highest: 36310 Abbeville36317 Clopton36345 Headland

Social Need / SDOH21%32,754 people

Standing highest: 36305 Dothan36313 Bellwood36352 Newton

Disability21%32,754 people

Standing highest: 36305 Dothan36345 Headland36352 Newton

Environmental Hazard12%18,185 people

Standing highest: 36317 Clopton36352 Newton36373 Shorterville

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 22 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 153,973 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 Dothan, 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.