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How the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 2026237 of 239 ZIP codes scored · 7.4M residents represented

Score snapshot

50.91Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
47.91Median scoremiddle of 237 scored ZIPs
69.48Highest score77005 · West University Place
23.24Lowest score77050 · Houston
46.24Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#205Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
56%Residents in below-average ZIPs4.2M of 7.4M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
2.3MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs31% of the metro
1.3MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs17% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 237
  1. 68477005in West University Place · 28,874 residents69.48
  2. 71977401in Bellaire · 17,213 residents69.26
  3. 79377479in Sugar Land · 92,221 residents68.88
  4. 79877098in Houston · 17,210 residents68.85
  5. 1,06377027in Houston · 20,317 residents67.80
  6. 1,14777024in Houston · 38,288 residents67.46
  7. 1,24877094in Houston · 10,395 residents67.13
  8. 1,31977056in Houston · 22,877 residents66.87
  9. 1,32477030in Houston · 13,380 residents66.86
  10. 1,35077007in Houston · 47,808 residents66.78
  11. 1,44677006in Houston · 24,892 residents66.49
  12. 1,53077494in Katy · 140,157 residents66.25
  13. 1,65877478in Sugar Land · 23,182 residents65.90
  14. 1,68677382in Spring · 38,986 residents65.83
  15. 1,70177441in Fulshear · 41,324 residents65.79
  16. 1,74677019in Houston · 23,708 residents65.69
  17. 1,85277008in Houston · 41,645 residents65.40
  18. 1,91077046in Houston · 1,793 residents65.22
  19. 2,51677459in Missouri City · 84,221 residents63.89
  20. 2,61777407in Richmond · 88,319 residents63.70
  21. 2,63277079in Houston · 37,276 residents63.65
  22. 2,85377381in Spring · 36,139 residents63.21
  23. 3,12577059in Houston · 18,767 residents62.70
  24. 3,22377476in Simonton · 423 residents62.50
  25. 3,27877345in Kingwood · 27,917 residents62.42
  26. 3,48177384in Conroe · 26,781 residents62.08
  27. 3,61777406in Richmond · 69,918 residents61.82
  28. 3,83277450in Katy · 71,906 residents61.47
  29. 3,89977433in Cypress · 116,550 residents61.36
  30. 3,95477025in Houston · 29,715 residents61.28
  31. 4,19877380in Spring · 31,369 residents60.90
  32. 4,27377429in Cypress · 96,334 residents60.79
  33. 4,40477389in Spring · 45,701 residents60.61
  34. 4,67077377in Tomball · 41,680 residents60.25
  35. 4,76377379in Spring · 85,190 residents60.13
  36. 4,80877573in League City · 98,109 residents60.07
  37. 4,82677546in Friendswood · 54,789 residents60.05
  38. 4,87077584in Pearland · 91,065 residents60.00
  39. 4,97177498in Sugar Land · 52,806 residents59.85
  40. 4,97377054in Houston · 28,272 residents59.85
  41. 5,92077018in Houston · 31,031 residents58.58
  42. 6,04077062in Houston · 25,523 residents58.45
  43. 6,12377386in Spring · 69,980 residents58.34
  44. 6,28177095in Houston · 69,767 residents58.14
  45. 6,31577077in Houston · 60,098 residents58.10
  46. 6,50277469in Rosenberg · 69,826 residents57.88
  47. 6,53977578in Manvel · 30,210 residents57.84
  48. 6,60577316in Montgomery · 34,694 residents57.75
  49. 6,83277481in Thompsons · 78 residents57.46
  50. 6,84077554in Galveston · 10,414 residents57.45
Open the full Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro ranking →One page, all 237 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX 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

48 of 236 ZIPs

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

Chronic Disease Burden31%2,318,058 people

Standing highest: 77002 Houston77006 Houston77007 Houston

Disability31%2,269,501 people

Standing highest: 77006 Houston77007 Houston77098 Houston

Mental Health29%2,140,807 people

Standing highest: 77401 Bellaire77478 Sugar Land77479 Sugar Land

Healthcare Access28%2,116,718 people

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

Social Need / SDOH27%2,023,369 people

Standing highest: 77003 Houston77381 Spring77401 Bellaire

Risk Behavior25%1,848,977 people

Standing highest: 77005 West University Place77024 Houston77401 Bellaire

Climate / Disaster Risk19%1,376,160 people

Standing highest: 77006 Houston77591 Texas City77661 Stowell

Preventive Care18%1,344,395 people

Standing highest: 77401 Bellaire77476 Simonton77481 Thompsons

Environmental Hazard13%966,577 people

Standing highest: 77461 Needville78931 Bleiblerville78950 New Ulm

Each fifth is about 48 of this metro’s 236 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 7,438,568 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX 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.