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ZipVitals

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

46.74Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.49Median scoremiddle of 18 scored ZIPs
58.14Highest score49283 · Spring Arbor
38.41Lowest score49202 · Jackson
19.72Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#287Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
90%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.14M of 0.16M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.16MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.16MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Jackson, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Jackson, MI metro ranking →One page, all 18 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

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.