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

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

Data release 202616 of 16 ZIP codes scored · 0.21M residents represented

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Score snapshot

43.00Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
41.77Median scoremiddle of 16 scored ZIPs
53.49Highest score37682 · Milligan College
33.07Lowest score37694 · Watauga
20.42Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#348Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
100%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.21M of 0.21M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.21MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.21MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Johnson City, TN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 16 of 16
  1. 11,37837682in Milligan College · 591 residents53.49
  2. 13,72137615in Johnson City · 22,821 residents51.79
  3. 16,81637614in Johnson City · 2,767 residents49.59
  4. 17,90137659in Jonesborough · 29,080 residents48.81
  5. 19,77137656in Fall Branch · 3,849 residents47.32
  6. 22,36637690in Telford · 4,722 residents45.03
  7. 22,89737681in Limestone · 5,723 residents44.51
  8. 24,28137604in Johnson City · 39,097 residents43.10
  9. 26,45037601in Johnson City · 38,008 residents40.44
  10. 26,98037692in Unicoi · 4,766 residents39.66
  11. 27,56937657in Flag Pond · 1,060 residents38.75
  12. 27,82837650in Erwin · 12,774 residents38.34
  13. 28,09937643in Elizabethton · 34,120 residents37.86
  14. 28,70137687in Roan Mountain · 4,493 residents36.62
  15. 29,64237658in Hampton · 3,854 residents34.25
  16. 30,02337694in Watauga · 1,729 residents33.07
Open the full Johnson City, TN metro ranking →One page, all 16 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Johnson City, TN metro’s 16 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 16 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 16 of the Johnson City, TN 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 Johnson City, 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.