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ZipVitals

How the Jackson, TN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202625 of 26 ZIP codes scored · 0.18M residents represented

Score snapshot

41.54Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
40.49Median scoremiddle of 25 scored ZIPs
53.50Highest score38355 · Medina
31.61Lowest score38301 · Jackson
21.89Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#359Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
95%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.18M of 0.18M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.18MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.18MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Jackson, TN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Jackson, TN metro ranking →One page, all 25 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Jackson, TN 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 25 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access67%123,987 people

Standing highest: 38301 Jackson38305 Jackson38382 Trenton

Chronic Disease Burden43%78,590 people

Standing highest: 38305 Jackson38340 Henderson38355 Medina

Disability37%67,336 people

Standing highest: 38305 Jackson38355 Medina38392 Mercer

Risk Behavior36%66,384 people

Standing highest: 38305 Jackson38355 Medina38392 Mercer

Social Need / SDOH36%65,788 people

Standing highest: 38050 Maury City38313 Beech Bluff38355 Medina

Preventive Care33%60,418 people

Standing highest: 38366 Pinson38391 Denmark38392 Mercer

Mental Health32%58,484 people

Standing highest: 38050 Maury City38391 Denmark38392 Mercer

Environmental Hazard7%12,428 people

Standing highest: 38034 Friendship38330 Dyer38369 Rutherford

Climate / Disaster Risk3%4,956 people

Standing highest: 38050 Maury City38347 Jacks Creek38352 Luray

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 25 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 184,379 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 Jackson, TN 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.