How the Laredo, TX metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Laredo, TX metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202610 of 10 ZIP codes scored · 0.27M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Laredo, TX metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 10 of 10- 9,68678045in Laredo · 67,333 residents54.81
- 16,02578044in Laredo · 220 residents50.16
- 22,10978369in Mirando City · 211 residents45.28
- 23,53678041in Laredo · 46,550 residents43.87
- 26,79178371in Oilton · 101 residents39.95
- 26,84078019in Encinal · 1,836 residents39.88
- 27,07978344in Bruni · 295 residents39.51
- 28,54178046in Laredo · 72,951 residents36.97
- 29,25478043in Laredo · 45,760 residents35.35
- 31,05078040in Laredo · 35,709 residents28.36
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 10 of 10- 31,05078040in Laredo · 35,709 residents28.36
- 29,25478043in Laredo · 45,760 residents35.35
- 28,54178046in Laredo · 72,951 residents36.97
- 27,07978344in Bruni · 295 residents39.51
- 26,84078019in Encinal · 1,836 residents39.88
- 26,79178371in Oilton · 101 residents39.95
- 23,53678041in Laredo · 46,550 residents43.87
- 22,10978369in Mirando City · 211 residents45.28
- 16,02578044in Laredo · 220 residents50.16
- 9,68678045in Laredo · 67,333 residents54.81
What the distribution shows
Across the Laredo, TX metro’s 10 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 10 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 10 of the Laredo, TX 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 Laredo, TX 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.