How the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202618 of 18 ZIP codes scored · 0.26M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 18 of 18- 3,56049083in Richland · 8,254 residents61.92
- 4,19049087in Schoolcraft · 6,305 residents60.91
- 4,21249024in Portage · 30,823 residents60.87
- 4,50049012in Augusta · 3,219 residents60.47
- 6,19449009in Kalamazoo · 47,971 residents58.25
- 6,54149002in Portage · 19,737 residents57.83
- 8,06149053in Galesburg · 7,805 residents56.20
- 9,56449097in Vicksburg · 11,754 residents54.90
- 11,82249008in Kalamazoo · 16,137 residents53.17
- 12,50349034in Climax · 1,938 residents52.69
- 14,41449088in Scotts · 3,807 residents51.30
- 14,82349004in Kalamazoo · 17,815 residents51.02
- 15,03549052in Fulton · 1,234 residents50.88
- 18,43949048in Kalamazoo · 22,791 residents48.39
- 19,22749006in Kalamazoo · 26,507 residents47.77
- 24,12149001in Kalamazoo · 20,946 residents43.29
- 25,12749074in Nazareth · 194 residents42.11
- 28,93349007in Kalamazoo · 9,836 residents36.14
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 18 of 18- 28,93349007in Kalamazoo · 9,836 residents36.14
- 25,12749074in Nazareth · 194 residents42.11
- 24,12149001in Kalamazoo · 20,946 residents43.29
- 19,22749006in Kalamazoo · 26,507 residents47.77
- 18,43949048in Kalamazoo · 22,791 residents48.39
- 15,03549052in Fulton · 1,234 residents50.88
- 14,82349004in Kalamazoo · 17,815 residents51.02
- 14,41449088in Scotts · 3,807 residents51.30
- 12,50349034in Climax · 1,938 residents52.69
- 11,82249008in Kalamazoo · 16,137 residents53.17
- 9,56449097in Vicksburg · 11,754 residents54.90
- 8,06149053in Galesburg · 7,805 residents56.20
- 6,54149002in Portage · 19,737 residents57.83
- 6,19449009in Kalamazoo · 47,971 residents58.25
- 4,50049012in Augusta · 3,219 residents60.47
- 4,21249024in Portage · 30,823 residents60.87
- 4,19049087in Schoolcraft · 6,305 residents60.91
- 3,56049083in Richland · 8,254 residents61.92
What the distribution shows
Across the Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 18 of the Kalamazoo-Portage, 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 Kalamazoo-Portage, 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.