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ZipVitals

How the Huntsville, AL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Huntsville, AL metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202631 of 32 ZIP codes scored · 0.52M residents represented

Score snapshot

54.74Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.45Median scoremiddle of 31 scored ZIPs
64.08Highest score35758 · Madison
34.94Lowest score35805 · Huntsville
29.15Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#108Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
40%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.21M of 0.52M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.52MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.52MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Huntsville, AL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Huntsville, AL metro ranking →One page, all 31 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Huntsville, AL 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

7 of 31 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access34%175,983 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 35611 Athens35801 Huntsville35805 Huntsville

Disability30%156,938 people

Standing highest: 35756 Madison35758 Madison35763 Owens Cross Roads

Chronic Disease Burden30%152,970 people

Standing highest: 35756 Madison35758 Madison35896 Huntsville

Social Need / SDOH29%152,238 people

Standing highest: 35649 Mooresville35763 Owens Cross Roads35801 Huntsville

Mental Health29%151,449 people

Standing highest: 35649 Mooresville35757 Madison35758 Madison

Risk Behavior29%151,149 people

Standing highest: 35649 Mooresville35741 Brownsboro35802 Huntsville

Preventive Care28%146,321 people

Standing highest: 35649 Mooresville35741 Brownsboro35803 Huntsville

Climate / Disaster Risk25%130,537 people

Standing highest: 35739 Ardmore35749 Harvest35810 Huntsville

Environmental Hazard18%93,617 people

Standing highest: 35647 Lester35750 Hazel Green35773 Toney

Each fifth is about 7 of this metro’s 31 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 516,768 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 Huntsville, AL 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.