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Gainesville, FL metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Gainesville, FL metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202629 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 2,57332606in Gainesville · 23,022 residents63.81
- 4,08232605in Gainesville · 24,689 residents61.07
- 5,13532653in Gainesville · 15,150 residents59.61
- 6,52832669in Newberry · 17,704 residents57.85
- 8,13032616in Alachua · 123 residents56.14
- 8,48832608in Gainesville · 54,566 residents55.82
- 9,62432615in Alachua · 16,771 residents54.85
- 10,74632618in Archer · 7,057 residents53.97
- 12,47232607in Gainesville · 35,720 residents52.73
- 13,48132658in La Crosse · 347 residents51.98
- 13,69532643in High Springs · 11,953 residents51.81
- 17,97632603in Gainesville · 7,419 residents48.77
- 18,48432601in Gainesville · 23,180 residents48.35
- 19,56032694in Waldo · 2,286 residents47.50
- 21,53432693in Fanning Springs · 12,806 residents45.81
- 22,95032631in Earleton · 343 residents44.47
- 23,68032619in Bell · 5,074 residents43.73
- 23,77532696in Williston · 15,521 residents43.63
- 23,79332609in Gainesville · 19,752 residents43.62
- 24,21032668in Morriston · 5,149 residents43.18
- 24,28032626in Chiefland · 8,709 residents43.11
- 24,47532639in Gulf Hammock · 63 residents42.90
- 24,59032625in Cedar Key · 1,322 residents42.75
- 25,13232683in Otter Creek · 184 residents42.10
- 26,10932612in Gainesville · 9,157 residents40.90
- 26,30932621in Bronson · 6,368 residents40.64
- 28,22634449in Inglis · 3,565 residents37.62
- 29,22434498in Yankeetown · 675 residents35.42
- 29,39832641in Gainesville · 13,963 residents35.00
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 29 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.