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ZipVitals

How the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202626 of 26 ZIP codes scored · 0.42M residents represented

Score snapshot

46.78Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
47.19Median scoremiddle of 26 scored ZIPs
65.01Highest score39534 · Biloxi
28.49Lowest score39501 · Gulfport
36.52Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#286Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
87%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.36M of 0.42M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.42MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.42MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro ranking →One page, all 26 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Gulfport-Biloxi, MS 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 26 ZIPs

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

Chronic Disease Burden41%168,723 people

Standing highest: 39534 Biloxi39540 D'Iberville39564 Ocean Springs

Healthcare Access37%154,947 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 39501 Gulfport39503 Gulfport39520 Bay St. Louis

Mental Health27%113,477 people

Standing highest: 39525 Diamondhead39563 Moss Point39564 Ocean Springs

Disability26%107,324 people

Standing highest: 39525 Diamondhead39534 Biloxi39564 Ocean Springs

Risk Behavior25%103,437 people

Standing highest: 39525 Diamondhead39534 Biloxi39564 Ocean Springs

Preventive Care24%101,162 people

Standing highest: 39525 Diamondhead39563 Moss Point39564 Ocean Springs

Social Need / SDOH23%97,367 people

Standing highest: 39525 Diamondhead39534 Biloxi39576 Waveland

Environmental Hazard18%75,304 people

Standing highest: 39556 Kiln39565 Vancleave39572 Pearlington

Climate / Disaster Risk15%61,626 people

Standing highest: 39534 Biloxi39561 Mc Henry39574 Saucier

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 26 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 415,415 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 Gulfport-Biloxi, MS 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.