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How the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202625 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.52M residents represented

Score snapshot

48.64Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
49.04Median scoremiddle of 25 scored ZIPs
66.65Highest score40513 · Lexington
31.62Lowest score40508 · Lexington
35.03Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#247Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
65%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.34M of 0.52M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.52MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.52MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Lexington-Fayette, KY metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Lexington-Fayette, KY metro ranking →One page, all 25 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro’s 25 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 25 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 Lexington-Fayette, KY 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 Lexington-Fayette, KY 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.