How the Fairbanks-College, AK metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Fairbanks-College, AK metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 20268 of 8 ZIP codes scored · 0.10M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Fairbanks-College, AK metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 8 of 8- 3,06499775in Fairbanks · 826 residents62.84
- 5,95999712in Fairbanks · 12,477 residents58.54
- 7,79999703in Fairbanks · 8,304 residents56.46
- 9,34399709in Fairbanks · 29,551 residents55.10
- 15,44299714in Salcha · 1,106 residents50.59
- 17,12999705in North Pole · 21,769 residents49.37
- 19,41099702in Eielson Afb · 3,260 residents47.63
- 20,20899701in Fairbanks · 18,061 residents46.96
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 8 of 8- 20,20899701in Fairbanks · 18,061 residents46.96
- 19,41099702in Eielson Afb · 3,260 residents47.63
- 17,12999705in North Pole · 21,769 residents49.37
- 15,44299714in Salcha · 1,106 residents50.59
- 9,34399709in Fairbanks · 29,551 residents55.10
- 7,79999703in Fairbanks · 8,304 residents56.46
- 5,95999712in Fairbanks · 12,477 residents58.54
- 3,06499775in Fairbanks · 826 residents62.84
What the distribution shows
Across the Fairbanks-College, AK metro’s 8 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 8 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 Fairbanks-College, AK 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 Fairbanks-College, AK 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.