Skip to main content
ZipVitals

How the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202621 of 21 ZIP codes scored · 0.20M residents represented

Score snapshot

40.08Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
36.60Median scoremiddle of 21 scored ZIPs
49.58Highest score70360 · Houma
21.64Lowest score70353 · Dulac
27.94Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#376Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
100%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.20M of 0.20M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.20MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.20MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA metro ranking →One page, all 21 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA 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

5 of 21 ZIPs

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

Climate / Disaster Risk68%137,667 people

14 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Healthcare Access67%135,932 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 70301 Thibodaux70360 Houma70363 Houma

Chronic Disease Burden58%117,085 people

Standing highest: 70301 Thibodaux70360 Houma70395 Schriever

Disability58%117,085 people

Standing highest: 70343 Bourg70360 Houma70395 Schriever

Risk Behavior44%89,340 people

Standing highest: 70301 Thibodaux70360 Houma70395 Schriever

Mental Health44%89,340 people

Standing highest: 70343 Bourg70360 Houma70395 Schriever

Preventive Care44%88,536 people

Standing highest: 70301 Thibodaux70360 Houma70395 Schriever

Social Need / SDOH20%39,423 people

Standing highest: 70343 Bourg70360 Houma70397 Theriot

Environmental Hazard9%18,126 people

4 ZIP codes tie at this end: 70345 Cut Off70357 Golden Meadow70377 Montegut70397 Theriot

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 202,145 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 Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, 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.