How the Gadsden, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Gadsden, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202610 of 11 ZIP codes scored · 0.11M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Gadsden, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 10 of 10- 11,58935907in Southside · 9,357 residents53.33
- 21,03335905in Glencoe · 6,452 residents46.26
- 21,31035906in Rainbow City · 10,446 residents46.04
- 23,95235956in Boaz · 8,748 residents43.45
- 25,99835954in Attalla · 12,054 residents41.04
- 26,53735903in Gadsden · 17,113 residents40.32
- 27,02135952in Altoona · 8,415 residents39.60
- 27,66735972in Gallant · 1,291 residents38.60
- 28,64035901in Gadsden · 18,769 residents36.76
- 30,98235904in Gadsden · 14,015 residents28.80
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 10 of 10- 30,98235904in Gadsden · 14,015 residents28.80
- 28,64035901in Gadsden · 18,769 residents36.76
- 27,66735972in Gallant · 1,291 residents38.60
- 27,02135952in Altoona · 8,415 residents39.60
- 26,53735903in Gadsden · 17,113 residents40.32
- 25,99835954in Attalla · 12,054 residents41.04
- 23,95235956in Boaz · 8,748 residents43.45
- 21,31035906in Rainbow City · 10,446 residents46.04
- 21,03335905in Glencoe · 6,452 residents46.26
- 11,58935907in Southside · 9,357 residents53.33
What the distribution shows
Across the Gadsden, AL metro’s 11 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 10 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 10 of the Gadsden, 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 Gadsden, 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.