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How the Kansas City, MO-KS metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026200 of 203 ZIP codes scored · 2.2M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.37Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.38Median scoremiddle of 200 scored ZIPs
72.03Highest score66221 · Overland Park
20.65Lowest score64125 · Kansas City
51.38Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#143Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
47%Residents in below-average ZIPs1.0M of 2.2M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.85MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs38% of the metro
0.43MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs20% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Kansas City, MO-KS metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 200
  1. 27566221in Overland Park · 25,550 residents72.03
  2. 33566206in Leawood · 12,153 residents71.57
  3. 36266224in Leawood · 12,683 residents71.37
  4. 56266211in Leawood · 5,791 residents70.16
  5. 57966209in Leawood · 20,413 residents70.07
  6. 59066213in Overland Park · 30,539 residents70.01
  7. 60666223in Overland Park · 24,747 residents69.92
  8. 65166227in Lenexa · 9,595 residents69.66
  9. 74666220in Lenexa · 8,535 residents69.11
  10. 75466208in Prairie Village · 21,576 residents69.06
  11. 91366085in Stilwell · 11,486 residents68.41
  12. 1,02464113in Kansas City · 12,386 residents67.96
  13. 1,05466218in Shawnee · 8,820 residents67.84
  14. 1,10266207in Overland Park · 15,739 residents67.66
  15. 1,35566219in Lenexa · 13,519 residents66.76
  16. 1,36466210in Overland Park · 20,347 residents66.73
  17. 1,67366205in Roeland Park · 14,032 residents65.86
  18. 1,68766013in Bucyrus · 2,735 residents65.83
  19. 1,76966217in Shawnee · 5,468 residents65.62
  20. 1,79866226in Shawnee · 16,219 residents65.54
  21. 2,17466031in New Century · 655 residents64.56
  22. 2,27466062in Olathe · 78,841 residents64.34
  23. 2,61066216in Shawnee · 24,881 residents63.71
  24. 3,07164167in Kansas City · 243 residents62.83
  25. 3,12464157in Kansas City · 23,030 residents62.71
  26. 3,28466215in Lenexa · 25,960 residents62.42
  27. 3,55466212in Overland Park · 32,917 residents61.93
  28. 3,70064153in Kansas City · 6,653 residents61.69
  29. 3,99864156in Kansas City · 7,946 residents61.21
  30. 4,03066202in Mission · 17,408 residents61.17
  31. 4,13466083in Spring Hill · 13,011 residents60.99
  32. 4,26764112in Kansas City · 8,260 residents60.80
  33. 4,57164082in Lee's Summit · 20,068 residents60.37
  34. 4,64666061in Olathe · 67,967 residents60.29
  35. 4,64866214in Overland Park · 12,351 residents60.29
  36. 4,69564154in Kansas City · 13,851 residents60.22
  37. 5,22966204in Overland Park · 17,948 residents59.47
  38. 5,31164105in Kansas City · 6,312 residents59.37
  39. 5,38164165in Kansas City · 212 residents59.28
  40. 5,57064166in Kansas City · 270 residents59.03
  41. 5,83366018in De Soto · 6,584 residents58.69
  42. 5,91664034in Greenwood · 8,998 residents58.58
  43. 5,99064114in Kansas City · 24,229 residents58.51
  44. 6,04664086in Lee's Summit · 23,599 residents58.44
  45. 6,05864064in Lee's Summit · 20,050 residents58.42
  46. 6,10664155in Kansas City · 28,824 residents58.35
  47. 6,31864158in Kansas City · 7,317 residents58.09
  48. 6,45966030in Gardner · 26,328 residents57.93
  49. 6,51864081in Lee's Summit · 25,305 residents57.86
  50. 6,54766007in Basehor · 10,150 residents57.83
Open the full Kansas City, MO-KS metro ranking →One page, all 200 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Kansas City, MO-KS 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

40 of 200 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access40%883,495 people

11 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Chronic Disease Burden30%662,207 people

Standing highest: 64105 Kansas City66027 Fort Leavenworth66031 New Century

Disability30%657,707 people

Standing highest: 66031 New Century66218 Shawnee66221 Overland Park

Mental Health29%656,467 people

Standing highest: 66206 Leawood66209 Leawood66211 Leawood

Risk Behavior29%638,286 people

Standing highest: 66206 Leawood66209 Leawood66211 Leawood

Social Need / SDOH27%601,077 people

Standing highest: 64105 Kansas City66211 Leawood66224 Leawood

Climate / Disaster Risk24%529,784 people

Standing highest: 64021 Corder64109 Kansas City64167 Kansas City

Preventive Care22%499,985 people

Standing highest: 66206 Leawood66209 Leawood66211 Leawood

Environmental Hazard6%137,821 people

Standing highest: 64625 Breckenridge64743 East Lynne64745 Foster

Each fifth is about 40 of this metro’s 200 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 2,225,838 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 Kansas City, MO-KS 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.