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ZipVitals

How the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202629 of 30 ZIP codes scored · 0.22M residents represented

Score snapshot

50.48Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
49.52Median scoremiddle of 29 scored ZIPs
60.62Highest score47924 · Buck Creek
40.61Lowest score47904 · Lafayette
20.02Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#212Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
97%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.22M of 0.22M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.22MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.22MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro ranking →One page, all 29 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN 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

6 of 29 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access86%190,041 people

Standing highest: 46923 Delphi47904 Lafayette47905 Lafayette

Chronic Disease Burden56%125,177 people

Standing highest: 47901 Lafayette47906 West Lafayette47924 Buck Creek

Social Need / SDOH21%47,250 people

Standing highest: 47920 Battle Ground47924 Buck Creek47992 Westpoint

Environmental Hazard3%6,517 people

Standing highest: 47917 Ambia47983 Stockwell47997 Yeoman

Risk Behavior3%6,080 people

Standing highest: 47920 Battle Ground47924 Buck Creek47992 Westpoint

Mental Health3%6,080 people

Standing highest: 47920 Battle Ground47983 Stockwell47992 Westpoint

Disability3%6,080 people

Standing highest: 47920 Battle Ground47924 Buck Creek47992 Westpoint

Preventive Care2%5,545 people

Standing highest: 47920 Battle Ground47983 Stockwell47992 Westpoint

Climate / Disaster Risk1%3,040 people

Standing highest: 47930 Clarks Hill47983 Stockwell47997 Yeoman

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 29 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 221,883 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN 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.