How the Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202611 of 11 ZIP codes scored · 0.21M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 11 of 11- 13,53846573in Wakarusa · 3,936 residents51.94
- 18,82746553in New Paris · 3,828 residents48.08
- 20,95446528in Goshen · 26,248 residents46.33
- 21,19446526in Goshen · 33,668 residents46.13
- 21,56246507in Bristol · 9,991 residents45.78
- 21,94746540in Middlebury · 12,993 residents45.44
- 22,91146550in Nappanee · 12,843 residents44.49
- 23,74146514in Elkhart · 42,389 residents43.66
- 25,28046543in Millersburg · 4,741 residents41.92
- 26,50646516in Elkhart · 31,871 residents40.37
- 26,58246517in Elkhart · 25,433 residents40.25
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 11 of 11- 26,58246517in Elkhart · 25,433 residents40.25
- 26,50646516in Elkhart · 31,871 residents40.37
- 25,28046543in Millersburg · 4,741 residents41.92
- 23,74146514in Elkhart · 42,389 residents43.66
- 22,91146550in Nappanee · 12,843 residents44.49
- 21,94746540in Middlebury · 12,993 residents45.44
- 21,56246507in Bristol · 9,991 residents45.78
- 21,19446526in Goshen · 33,668 residents46.13
- 20,95446528in Goshen · 26,248 residents46.33
- 18,82746553in New Paris · 3,828 residents48.08
- 13,53846573in Wakarusa · 3,936 residents51.94
What the distribution shows
Across the Elkhart-Goshen, IN metro’s 11 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 11 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 11 of the Elkhart-Goshen, IN 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 Elkhart-Goshen, IN 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.