How the Hammond, LA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Hammond, LA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 15 ZIP codes scored · 0.14M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Hammond, LA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 13,67770446in Loranger · 7,173 residents51.83
- 14,44770402in Hammond · 1,850 residents51.28
- 16,50470455in Robert · 2,181 residents49.82
- 20,55670442in Husser · 196 residents46.67
- 24,04370454in Ponchatoula · 34,564 residents43.37
- 26,63070422in Amite City · 15,399 residents40.18
- 26,98670444in Kentwood · 8,687 residents39.65
- 26,98870401in Hammond · 21,221 residents39.65
- 27,30970403in Hammond · 30,173 residents39.12
- 27,36870443in Independence · 9,006 residents39.04
- 27,69370466in Tickfaw · 10,148 residents38.55
- 30,75070456in Roseland · 3,193 residents30.07
- 30,99870451in Natalbany · 65 residents28.74
- 31,43270465in Tangipahoa · 522 residents25.34
- 31,61570436in Fluker · 104 residents23.53
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 31,61570436in Fluker · 104 residents23.53
- 31,43270465in Tangipahoa · 522 residents25.34
- 30,99870451in Natalbany · 65 residents28.74
- 30,75070456in Roseland · 3,193 residents30.07
- 27,69370466in Tickfaw · 10,148 residents38.55
- 27,36870443in Independence · 9,006 residents39.04
- 27,30970403in Hammond · 30,173 residents39.12
- 26,98870401in Hammond · 21,221 residents39.65
- 26,98670444in Kentwood · 8,687 residents39.65
- 26,63070422in Amite City · 15,399 residents40.18
- 24,04370454in Ponchatoula · 34,564 residents43.37
- 20,55670442in Husser · 196 residents46.67
- 16,50470455in Robert · 2,181 residents49.82
- 14,44770402in Hammond · 1,850 residents51.28
- 13,67770446in Loranger · 7,173 residents51.83
What the distribution shows
Across the Hammond, LA metro’s 15 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 15 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 15 of the Hammond, LA 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 Hammond, LA 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.