How the Kennewick-Richland, WA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Kennewick-Richland, WA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202615 of 15 ZIP codes scored · 0.31M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Kennewick-Richland, WA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 15 of 15- 4,30199352in Richland · 37,430 residents60.73
- 4,41899338in Kennewick · 20,633 residents60.58
- 6,78899353in West Richland · 19,251 residents57.51
- 7,18599354in Richland · 25,559 residents57.10
- 8,97099330in Mesa · 1,210 residents55.41
- 13,02799337in Kennewick · 33,287 residents52.31
- 16,44799336in Kennewick · 50,735 residents49.85
- 16,77899350in Prosser · 14,837 residents49.61
- 16,92099301in Pasco · 87,044 residents49.51
- 17,11999326in Connell · 6,336 residents49.38
- 18,47899320in Benton City · 9,879 residents48.35
- 19,36199335in Kahlotus · 229 residents47.67
- 19,83699343in Mesa · 3,215 residents47.27
- 22,40399345in Paterson · 162 residents45.00
- 22,74099346in Plymouth · 198 residents44.67
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 15 of 15- 22,74099346in Plymouth · 198 residents44.67
- 22,40399345in Paterson · 162 residents45.00
- 19,83699343in Mesa · 3,215 residents47.27
- 19,36199335in Kahlotus · 229 residents47.67
- 18,47899320in Benton City · 9,879 residents48.35
- 17,11999326in Connell · 6,336 residents49.38
- 16,92099301in Pasco · 87,044 residents49.51
- 16,77899350in Prosser · 14,837 residents49.61
- 16,44799336in Kennewick · 50,735 residents49.85
- 13,02799337in Kennewick · 33,287 residents52.31
- 8,97099330in Mesa · 1,210 residents55.41
- 7,18599354in Richland · 25,559 residents57.10
- 6,78899353in West Richland · 19,251 residents57.51
- 4,41899338in Kennewick · 20,633 residents60.58
- 4,30199352in Richland · 37,430 residents60.73
What the distribution shows
Across the Kennewick-Richland, WA metro’s 15 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 15 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.
The Kennewick-Richland, WA metro has no in-metro comparison group: too few of its ZIP codes carry measured data across all nine scoring domains for the others to be placed against them, so the domain-by-domain breakdown that other metro pages carry is not available here. Every one of its ZIP codes still carries its own Score and its national standing.
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 Kennewick-Richland, WA 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.