How the Jacksonville, NC metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Jacksonville, NC metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202611 of 11 ZIP codes scored · 0.20M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Jacksonville, NC metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 11 of 11- 4,62128445in Surf City · 10,797 residents60.32
- 5,04928547in Camp Lejeune · 21,346 residents59.74
- 6,92328460in North Topsail Beach · 13,532 residents57.36
- 12,73028539in Hubert · 18,351 residents52.52
- 12,76328546in Jacksonville · 47,256 residents52.49
- 14,42728540in Jacksonville · 49,141 residents51.29
- 15,43228555in Maysville · 5,914 residents50.59
- 16,37428544in Midway Park · 4,386 residents49.91
- 17,39828543in Tarawa Terrace · 6,069 residents49.19
- 17,51328454in Maple Hill · 2,895 residents49.10
- 17,62928574in Richlands · 20,990 residents49.03
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 11 of 11- 17,62928574in Richlands · 20,990 residents49.03
- 17,51328454in Maple Hill · 2,895 residents49.10
- 17,39828543in Tarawa Terrace · 6,069 residents49.19
- 16,37428544in Midway Park · 4,386 residents49.91
- 15,43228555in Maysville · 5,914 residents50.59
- 14,42728540in Jacksonville · 49,141 residents51.29
- 12,76328546in Jacksonville · 47,256 residents52.49
- 12,73028539in Hubert · 18,351 residents52.52
- 6,92328460in North Topsail Beach · 13,532 residents57.36
- 5,04928547in Camp Lejeune · 21,346 residents59.74
- 4,62128445in Surf City · 10,797 residents60.32
What the distribution shows
Across the Jacksonville, NC metro’s 11 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 11 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 11 of the Jacksonville, NC 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 Jacksonville, NC 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.