Archived release. This page is frozen at the data release below and will not change. Current data is at the latest ranking.
Lake Charles, LA metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Lake Charles, LA metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202625 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 12,46670605in Lake Charles · 40,482 residents52.73
- 15,20770611in Lake Charles · 22,124 residents50.75
- 16,60070646in Hayes · 877 residents49.74
- 16,90170647in Iowa · 12,736 residents49.53
- 17,99470630in Bell City · 1,478 residents48.76
- 19,28270645in Hackberry · 899 residents47.73
- 19,71270650in Lacassine · 218 residents47.37
- 24,15470665in Sulphur · 13,222 residents43.26
- 24,95070631in Cameron · 370 residents42.33
- 25,64170633in DeQuincy · 8,486 residents41.52
- 26,43670669in Westlake · 9,552 residents40.46
- 26,96670632in Creole · 131 residents39.67
- 26,97670643in Grand Chenier · 87 residents39.65
- 27,47970591in Welsh · 5,983 residents38.89
- 27,76870663in Sulphur · 27,799 residents38.42
- 28,16870581in Roanoke · 958 residents37.74
- 28,58870546in Jennings · 15,242 residents36.88
- 28,72770532in Elton · 2,434 residents36.56
- 28,82270640in Fenton · 196 residents36.37
- 29,23470607in Lake Charles · 27,080 residents35.39
- 29,84970601in Lake Charles · 30,872 residents33.67
- 30,04370615in Lake Charles · 12,980 residents33.00
- 30,37970549in Lake Arthur · 3,874 residents31.71
- 30,87270661in Starks · 1,861 residents29.42
- 30,93070668in Vinton · 6,169 residents29.07
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 25 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
Cite this ranking
The permalink /metro/lake-charles-la/ranking/2026-75251315 resolves to this exact release and never changes; an always-latest version lives at /metro/lake-charles-la/ranking. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.