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ZipVitals

How the Las Cruces, NM metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Las Cruces, NM metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202623 of 23 ZIP codes scored · 0.22M residents represented

Score snapshot

48.69Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
41.77Median scoremiddle of 23 scored ZIPs
63.82Highest score88011 · Las Cruces
30.74Lowest score87936 · Garfield
33.08Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#246Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
68%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.15M 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 Las Cruces, NM metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Las Cruces, NM metro ranking →One page, all 23 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Las Cruces, NM 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

5 of 23 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access60%130,570 people

Standing highest: 88001 Las Cruces88007 Las Cruces88011 Las Cruces

Risk Behavior43%93,712 people

Standing highest: 88007 Las Cruces88011 Las Cruces88046 Mesilla

Preventive Care41%88,063 people

Standing highest: 88007 Las Cruces88011 Las Cruces88046 Mesilla

Disability38%81,534 people

Standing highest: 88002 White Sands Missile Range88004 Las Cruces88011 Las Cruces

Climate / Disaster Risk32%69,063 people

Standing highest: 88002 White Sands Missile Range88004 Las Cruces88052 Organ

Mental Health29%63,172 people

Standing highest: 88011 Las Cruces88027 Chamberino88046 Mesilla

Social Need / SDOH29%62,663 people

Standing highest: 88004 Las Cruces88011 Las Cruces88046 Mesilla

Chronic Disease Burden23%48,874 people

Standing highest: 88002 White Sands Missile Range88003 Las Cruces88004 Las Cruces

Environmental Hazard3%6,194 people

Standing highest: 87936 Garfield87937 Hatch87941 Salem

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 23 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 217,107 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 Las Cruces, NM 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.