How the Elmira, NY metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Elmira, NY metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 15 ZIP codes scored · 0.08M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Elmira, NY metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 2,01614814in Big Flats · 2,152 residents64.96
- 3,71614816in Breesport · 534 residents61.67
- 5,52314905in Elmira · 8,751 residents59.10
- 5,52614845in Horseheads · 20,327 residents59.10
- 5,71314872in Pine Valley · 589 residents58.84
- 6,41614864in Millport · 1,197 residents57.98
- 10,10914838in Erin · 1,889 residents54.47
- 10,43014903in Elmira · 7,078 residents54.21
- 12,25014889in Van Etten · 1,357 residents52.89
- 12,74914861in Lowman · 1,260 residents52.50
- 12,87014825in Chemung · 751 residents52.42
- 13,43914871in Pine City · 4,207 residents52.01
- 17,14614894in Wellsburg · 1,244 residents49.36
- 20,61514904in Elmira · 14,861 residents46.62
- 26,50714901in Elmira · 13,970 residents40.37
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 26,50714901in Elmira · 13,970 residents40.37
- 20,61514904in Elmira · 14,861 residents46.62
- 17,14614894in Wellsburg · 1,244 residents49.36
- 13,43914871in Pine City · 4,207 residents52.01
- 12,87014825in Chemung · 751 residents52.42
- 12,74914861in Lowman · 1,260 residents52.50
- 12,25014889in Van Etten · 1,357 residents52.89
- 10,43014903in Elmira · 7,078 residents54.21
- 10,10914838in Erin · 1,889 residents54.47
- 6,41614864in Millport · 1,197 residents57.98
- 5,71314872in Pine Valley · 589 residents58.84
- 5,52614845in Horseheads · 20,327 residents59.10
- 5,52314905in Elmira · 8,751 residents59.10
- 3,71614816in Breesport · 534 residents61.67
- 2,01614814in Big Flats · 2,152 residents64.96
What the distribution shows
Across the Elmira, NY 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.
The Elmira, NY metro has no in-metro comparison group: too few of its ZIP codes carry measured data across all nine scoring domains for the others to be placed against them, so the domain-by-domain breakdown that other metro pages carry is not available here. Every one of its ZIP codes still carries its own Score and its national standing.
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 Elmira, NY 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.