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How the Grand Junction, CO metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202617 of 17 ZIP codes scored · 0.16M residents represented

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Score snapshot

53.70Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
56.38Median scoremiddle of 17 scored ZIPs
63.47Highest score81507 · Grand Junction
45.63Lowest score81520 · Clifton
17.83Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#133Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
56%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.09M of 0.16M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.16MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.16MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Grand Junction, CO metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 17 of 17
  1. 2,72481507in Grand Junction · 15,947 residents63.47
  2. 4,92581506in Grand Junction · 11,412 residents59.91
  3. 5,61581505in Grand Junction · 13,279 residents58.97
  4. 6,79281523in Glade Park · 983 residents57.51
  5. 7,27381522in Gateway · 0 residents57.00
  6. 7,63681524in Loma · 2,760 residents56.61
  7. 7,65181521in Fruita · 16,613 residents56.60
  8. 7,78681525in Mack · 1,127 residents56.48
  9. 7,89681527in Whitewater · 1,462 residents56.38
  10. 8,84181526in Palisade · 5,559 residents55.52
  11. 10,73481646in Molina · 115 residents53.97
  12. 12,91781643in Mesa · 1,133 residents52.39
  13. 13,96581503in Grand Junction · 16,558 residents51.61
  14. 14,36281624in Collbran · 1,492 residents51.34
  15. 16,68981504in Grand Junction · 32,376 residents49.68
  16. 16,91581501in Grand Junction · 24,011 residents49.52
  17. 21,73481520in Clifton · 12,892 residents45.63
Open the full Grand Junction, CO metro ranking →One page, all 17 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Grand Junction, CO metro’s 17 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 17 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 16 of the Grand Junction, CO 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 Grand Junction, CO 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.