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How the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202619 of 20 ZIP codes scored · 0.23M residents represented

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Score snapshot

57.78Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
54.23Median scoremiddle of 19 scored ZIPs
66.45Highest score29928 · Hilton Head Island
38.35Lowest score29943 · Tillman
28.10Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#51Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
31%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.07M of 0.23M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.23MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.23MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 19 of 19
  1. 1,46329928in Hilton Head Island · 15,785 residents66.45
  2. 2,16629915in Daufuskie Island · 619 residents64.58
  3. 2,17529905in Parris Island · 1,729 residents64.56
  4. 2,31029909in Okatie · 24,003 residents64.27
  5. 3,04829910in Bluffton · 53,019 residents62.87
  6. 3,84229926in Hilton Head Island · 24,458 residents61.46
  7. 4,04129907in Beaufort · 15,190 residents61.13
  8. 5,74729904in Beaufort · 1,600 residents58.80
  9. 7,91829902in Port Royal · 17,650 residents56.36
  10. 10,40329935in Port Royal · 3,513 residents54.23
  11. 15,12429920in Saint Helena Island · 10,606 residents50.81
  12. 15,27529936in Ridgeland · 14,989 residents50.70
  13. 17,48529941in Sheldon · 329 residents49.12
  14. 17,61429906in Beaufort · 25,342 residents49.04
  15. 22,37529927in Hardeeville · 11,373 residents45.03
  16. 24,47029940in Seabrook · 3,256 residents42.90
  17. 24,59229934in Pineland · 1,183 residents42.75
  18. 25,32229945in Yemassee · 3,918 residents41.87
  19. 27,81529943in Tillman · 224 residents38.35
Open the full Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro ranking →One page, all 19 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro’s 20 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 19 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 19 of the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC 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 Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC 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.