How the Grants Pass, OR metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Grants Pass, OR metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202610 of 10 ZIP codes scored · 0.09M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Grants Pass, OR metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 10 of 10- 18,58197532in Merlin · 2,578 residents48.27
- 21,92797544in Williams · 1,860 residents45.46
- 22,59297543in Wilderville · 598 residents44.83
- 22,72597526in Grants Pass · 36,036 residents44.69
- 23,54197527in Grants Pass · 37,330 residents43.87
- 25,24297497in Wolf Creek · 1,174 residents41.95
- 25,77897523in Cave Junction · 7,172 residents41.36
- 26,94497531in Kerby · 187 residents39.71
- 27,78197538in Selma · 1,865 residents38.41
- 29,06997534in O Brien · 892 residents35.83
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 10 of 10- 29,06997534in O Brien · 892 residents35.83
- 27,78197538in Selma · 1,865 residents38.41
- 26,94497531in Kerby · 187 residents39.71
- 25,77897523in Cave Junction · 7,172 residents41.36
- 25,24297497in Wolf Creek · 1,174 residents41.95
- 23,54197527in Grants Pass · 37,330 residents43.87
- 22,72597526in Grants Pass · 36,036 residents44.69
- 22,59297543in Wilderville · 598 residents44.83
- 21,92797544in Williams · 1,860 residents45.46
- 18,58197532in Merlin · 2,578 residents48.27
What the distribution shows
Across the Grants Pass, OR metro’s 10 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 Grants Pass, OR 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 Grants Pass, OR 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.