How the Dover, DE metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Dover, DE metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202616 of 16 ZIP codes scored · 0.18M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Dover, DE metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 16 of 16- 10,74219902in Dover Afb · 44 residents53.97
- 12,88219934in Camden · 14,061 residents52.41
- 14,02119962in Magnolia · 13,770 residents51.57
- 15,25219938in Clayton · 9,561 residents50.71
- 15,96719977in Smyrna · 27,704 residents50.19
- 16,42119943in Felton · 13,410 residents49.88
- 19,10619952in Harrington · 10,908 residents47.85
- 19,22319946in Frederica · 5,603 residents47.77
- 19,49119904in Dover · 38,818 residents47.56
- 20,24819979in Viola · 619 residents46.93
- 21,85619955in Kenton · 352 residents45.51
- 22,25419901in Dover · 37,763 residents45.15
- 24,10419954in Houston · 1,427 residents43.30
- 24,44519953in Hartly · 5,255 residents42.93
- 24,74219964in Marydel · 1,418 residents42.59
- 27,42919936in Cheswold · 152 residents38.95
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 16 of 16- 27,42919936in Cheswold · 152 residents38.95
- 24,74219964in Marydel · 1,418 residents42.59
- 24,44519953in Hartly · 5,255 residents42.93
- 24,10419954in Houston · 1,427 residents43.30
- 22,25419901in Dover · 37,763 residents45.15
- 21,85619955in Kenton · 352 residents45.51
- 20,24819979in Viola · 619 residents46.93
- 19,49119904in Dover · 38,818 residents47.56
- 19,22319946in Frederica · 5,603 residents47.77
- 19,10619952in Harrington · 10,908 residents47.85
- 16,42119943in Felton · 13,410 residents49.88
- 15,96719977in Smyrna · 27,704 residents50.19
- 15,25219938in Clayton · 9,561 residents50.71
- 14,02119962in Magnolia · 13,770 residents51.57
- 12,88219934in Camden · 14,061 residents52.41
- 10,74219902in Dover Afb · 44 residents53.97
What the distribution shows
Across the Dover, DE metro’s 16 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 16 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 16 of the Dover, DE 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 Dover, DE 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.