How the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202613 of 13 ZIP codes scored · 0.15M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 13 of 13- 10,16035634in St. Florian · 10,241 residents54.43
- 10,89435645in Killen · 13,960 residents53.85
- 15,26635652in Rogersville · 9,173 residents50.70
- 16,50635648in Lexington · 3,128 residents49.82
- 17,62235661in Muscle Shoals · 19,169 residents49.03
- 18,46935633in Florence · 20,813 residents48.36
- 20,54735674in Tuscumbia · 20,176 residents46.68
- 22,34835677in Waterloo · 2,046 residents45.05
- 23,85935610in Anderson · 1,744 residents43.54
- 25,03035646in Leighton · 4,568 residents42.21
- 25,71935630in Florence · 34,028 residents41.44
- 27,69735616in Cherokee · 3,731 residents38.54
- 29,03335660in Sheffield · 9,367 residents35.91
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 13 of 13- 29,03335660in Sheffield · 9,367 residents35.91
- 27,69735616in Cherokee · 3,731 residents38.54
- 25,71935630in Florence · 34,028 residents41.44
- 25,03035646in Leighton · 4,568 residents42.21
- 23,85935610in Anderson · 1,744 residents43.54
- 22,34835677in Waterloo · 2,046 residents45.05
- 20,54735674in Tuscumbia · 20,176 residents46.68
- 18,46935633in Florence · 20,813 residents48.36
- 17,62235661in Muscle Shoals · 19,169 residents49.03
- 16,50635648in Lexington · 3,128 residents49.82
- 15,26635652in Rogersville · 9,173 residents50.70
- 10,89435645in Killen · 13,960 residents53.85
- 10,16035634in St. Florian · 10,241 residents54.43
What the distribution shows
Across the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro’s 13 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 13 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 13 of the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL 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 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL 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.