How the Jackson, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Jackson, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202618 of 18 ZIP codes scored · 0.16M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Jackson, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 18 of 18- 6,28949283in Spring Arbor · 5,039 residents58.14
- 7,81149240in Grass Lake · 8,863 residents56.45
- 9,23649234in Clarklake · 2,520 residents55.18
- 13,68949272in Pleasant Lake · 2,883 residents51.81
- 14,04649241in Hanover · 2,279 residents51.56
- 14,07449230in Brooklyn · 10,077 residents51.53
- 14,14149246in Horton · 3,382 residents51.49
- 14,44249269in Parma · 5,544 residents51.28
- 14,82549259in Munith · 2,653 residents51.02
- 16,29749263in Norvell · 0 residents49.96
- 16,90149237in Concord · 3,097 residents49.53
- 17,14849261in Napoleon · 199 residents49.36
- 17,51849254in Michigan Center · 3,484 residents49.10
- 18,74649284in Springport · 2,493 residents48.15
- 20,32649277in Rives Junction · 2,924 residents46.86
- 21,56049201in Jackson · 49,107 residents45.79
- 23,70849203in Jackson · 36,474 residents43.70
- 27,77449202in Jackson · 18,519 residents38.41
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 18 of 18- 27,77449202in Jackson · 18,519 residents38.41
- 23,70849203in Jackson · 36,474 residents43.70
- 21,56049201in Jackson · 49,107 residents45.79
- 20,32649277in Rives Junction · 2,924 residents46.86
- 18,74649284in Springport · 2,493 residents48.15
- 17,51849254in Michigan Center · 3,484 residents49.10
- 17,14849261in Napoleon · 199 residents49.36
- 16,90149237in Concord · 3,097 residents49.53
- 16,29749263in Norvell · 0 residents49.96
- 14,82549259in Munith · 2,653 residents51.02
- 14,44249269in Parma · 5,544 residents51.28
- 14,14149246in Horton · 3,382 residents51.49
- 14,07449230in Brooklyn · 10,077 residents51.53
- 14,04649241in Hanover · 2,279 residents51.56
- 13,68949272in Pleasant Lake · 2,883 residents51.81
- 9,23649234in Clarklake · 2,520 residents55.18
- 7,81149240in Grass Lake · 8,863 residents56.45
- 6,28949283in Spring Arbor · 5,039 residents58.14
What the distribution shows
Across the Jackson, MI metro’s 18 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 18 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 17 of the Jackson, MI 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 Jackson, MI 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.