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ZipVitals

How the Gainesville, FL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202629 of 29 ZIP codes scored · 0.34M residents represented

Score snapshot

51.59Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
45.81Median scoremiddle of 29 scored ZIPs
63.80Highest score32606 · Gainesville
34.99Lowest score32641 · Gainesville
28.81Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#188Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
54%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.18M of 0.34M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.34MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.34MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Gainesville, FL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Gainesville, FL metro ranking →One page, all 29 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Gainesville, FL 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

6 of 29 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access51%175,140 people

Standing highest: 32601 Gainesville32605 Gainesville32607 Gainesville

Chronic Disease Burden45%153,064 people

Standing highest: 32603 Gainesville32608 Gainesville32612 Gainesville

Disability39%135,254 people

Standing highest: 32605 Gainesville32606 Gainesville32653 Gainesville

Risk Behavior28%97,459 people

Standing highest: 32605 Gainesville32606 Gainesville32653 Gainesville

Climate / Disaster Risk28%96,137 people

Standing highest: 32603 Gainesville32605 Gainesville32616 Alachua

Social Need / SDOH27%92,581 people

Standing highest: 32605 Gainesville32606 Gainesville32639 Gulf Hammock

Preventive Care24%81,077 people

Standing highest: 32606 Gainesville32616 Alachua32653 Gainesville

Mental Health21%71,363 people

Standing highest: 32606 Gainesville32616 Alachua32653 Gainesville

Environmental Hazard8%26,965 people

Standing highest: 32619 Bell32625 Cedar Key32631 Earleton

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 29 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 342,638 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 Gainesville, FL 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.