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ZipVitals

How the Flint, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Flint, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202625 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.42M residents represented

Score snapshot

45.71Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
48.06Median scoremiddle of 25 scored ZIPs
58.52Highest score48430 · Fenton
23.69Lowest score48505 · Flint
34.82Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#311Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
72%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.30M of 0.42M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.42MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.42MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Flint, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Flint, MI metro ranking →One page, all 25 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Flint, MI metro. Nine domains make it up, and they are not spread the same way across the people who live here. Each row divides this metro's ZIP codes into fifths by how they stand against each other on that domain, then counts who lives at each end. If a domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents, every row would read about 20%.

The highest-standing fifth

5 of 25 ZIPs

Share of the metro's residents living in the fifth of its ZIP codes that stand highest on each domain.

Mental Health33%141,281 people

Standing highest: 48430 Fenton48439 Grand Blanc48451 Linden

Social Need / SDOH29%122,993 people

Standing highest: 48430 Fenton48438 Goodrich48519 Burton

Chronic Disease Burden28%119,028 people

Standing highest: 48430 Fenton48438 Goodrich48439 Grand Blanc

Disability28%119,028 people

Standing highest: 48430 Fenton48439 Grand Blanc48451 Linden

Risk Behavior27%114,953 people

Standing highest: 48411 Atlas48430 Fenton48439 Grand Blanc

Preventive Care26%111,493 people

Standing highest: 48411 Atlas48439 Grand Blanc48451 Linden

Healthcare Access26%108,645 people

Standing highest: 48504 Flint48506 Flint48507 Flint

Environmental Hazard19%80,261 people

Standing highest: 48420 Clio48457 Montrose48458 Mount Morris

Climate / Disaster Risk17%71,046 people

Standing highest: 48449 Lennon48463 Otisville48504 Flint

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 25 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 422,492 residents. A ZIP code is compared here only if it carries a resident count to weight it by and enough measured data on that domain — the rest are left out of that domain’s fifths rather than filled in from a coarser geography, which is why this count can sit just below the metro’s scored total.

The mark shows 20% — where a row would sit if that domain were spread evenly across the metro's residents.

Each ZIP code is compared with the other ZIP codes in this metro that are measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. Percentages are rounded; higher is healthier in every domain.

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 Flint, MI 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.