How the El Centro, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the El Centro, CA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 15 ZIP codes scored · 0.17M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The El Centro, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 20,12392251in Imperial · 27,454 residents47.03
- 22,84592249in Heber · 7,312 residents44.57
- 22,88592273in Seeley · 1,090 residents44.53
- 23,69592250in Holtville · 7,830 residents43.71
- 24,78092227in Brawley · 28,315 residents42.54
- 24,97592243in El Centro · 49,069 residents42.30
- 26,49592231in Calexico · 38,621 residents40.38
- 29,67292275in Salton City · 1,219 residents34.18
- 30,12092233in Calipatria · 6,836 residents32.70
- 30,79192222in Bard · 0 residents29.87
- 31,23292281in Westmorland · 2,082 residents27.07
- 31,60292259in Ocotillo · 198 residents23.61
- 31,64492257in Niland · 2,158 residents23.19
- 31,65292283in Winterhaven · 1,732 residents23.10
- 31,83592266in Palo Verde · 99 residents20.77
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 31,83592266in Palo Verde · 99 residents20.77
- 31,65292283in Winterhaven · 1,732 residents23.10
- 31,64492257in Niland · 2,158 residents23.19
- 31,60292259in Ocotillo · 198 residents23.61
- 31,23292281in Westmorland · 2,082 residents27.07
- 30,79192222in Bard · 0 residents29.87
- 30,12092233in Calipatria · 6,836 residents32.70
- 29,67292275in Salton City · 1,219 residents34.18
- 26,49592231in Calexico · 38,621 residents40.38
- 24,97592243in El Centro · 49,069 residents42.30
- 24,78092227in Brawley · 28,315 residents42.54
- 23,69592250in Holtville · 7,830 residents43.71
- 22,88592273in Seeley · 1,090 residents44.53
- 22,84592249in Heber · 7,312 residents44.57
- 20,12392251in Imperial · 27,454 residents47.03
What the distribution shows
Across the El Centro, CA 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 14 of the El Centro, CA 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 El Centro, CA 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.