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ZipVitals

How the Lincoln, NE metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202646 of 46 ZIP codes scored · 0.34M residents represented

Score snapshot

58.23Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
61.02Median scoremiddle of 46 scored ZIPs
69.28Highest score68526 · Lincoln
43.78Lowest score68508 · Lincoln
25.50Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#42Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
21%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.07M of 0.34M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.34MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.34MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Lincoln, NE metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 46 of 46
  1. 71568526in Lincoln · 7,944 residents69.28
  2. 98268520in Lincoln · 2,762 residents68.17
  3. 1,14368523in Lincoln · 2,031 residents67.47
  4. 1,48968516in Lincoln · 48,903 residents66.37
  5. 1,49868372in Hickman · 4,135 residents66.35
  6. 1,64268461in Walton · 503 residents65.96
  7. 1,68468430in Roca · 1,989 residents65.83
  8. 1,72668527in Lincoln · 2,318 residents65.74
  9. 1,77068512in Lincoln · 13,802 residents65.62
  10. 1,90268317in Bennet · 1,984 residents65.25
  11. 2,00968419in Panama · 242 residents64.98
  12. 2,03868438in Sprague · 176 residents64.90
  13. 2,24668517in Lincoln · 415 residents64.41
  14. 2,42268358in Firth · 1,701 residents64.04
  15. 2,51068404in Martell · 1,039 residents63.90
  16. 2,64668462in Waverly · 4,928 residents63.63
  17. 2,93268368in Hallam · 477 residents63.06
  18. 3,08968532in Lincoln · 785 residents62.78
  19. 3,12768336in Davey · 496 residents62.70
  20. 3,31268339in Denton · 1,154 residents62.38
  21. 3,93868514in Lincoln · 420 residents61.31
  22. 4,03868506in Lincoln · 27,531 residents61.14
  23. 4,11268531in Lincoln · 186 residents61.03
  24. 4,11868402in Malcolm · 1,459 residents61.01
  25. 4,54068428in Raymond · 1,332 residents60.42
  26. 4,59968364in Goehner · 309 residents60.34
  27. 5,34668505in Lincoln · 18,834 residents59.31
  28. 5,44768360in Garland · 504 residents59.20
  29. 5,82368314in Bee · 361 residents58.71
  30. 6,00568017in Ceresco · 1,979 residents58.48
  31. 6,22868510in Lincoln · 19,391 residents58.20
  32. 6,31468439in Staplehurst · 691 residents58.10
  33. 6,64268434in Seward · 9,099 residents57.70
  34. 6,70468423in Pleasant Dale · 688 residents57.63
  35. 7,36868528in Lincoln · 7,273 residents56.90
  36. 7,86168456in Utica · 1,215 residents56.40
  37. 8,11268507in Lincoln · 16,029 residents56.16
  38. 8,24668405in Milford · 3,575 residents56.03
  39. 8,31068502in Lincoln · 25,846 residents55.97
  40. 9,05068313in Beaver Crossing · 758 residents55.34
  41. 10,58668521in Lincoln · 37,050 residents54.09
  42. 13,26668522in Lincoln · 14,836 residents52.14
  43. 13,72868504in Lincoln · 17,278 residents51.78
  44. 13,75468524in Lincoln · 6,139 residents51.76
  45. 14,64768503in Lincoln · 15,867 residents51.12
  46. 23,62768508in Lincoln · 18,163 residents43.78
Open the full Lincoln, NE metro ranking →One page, all 46 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Lincoln, NE 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

10 of 46 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access70%242,665 people

Standing highest: 68502 Lincoln68503 Lincoln68510 Lincoln

Chronic Disease Burden31%105,927 people

Standing highest: 68372 Hickman68508 Lincoln68528 Lincoln

Disability26%89,735 people

Standing highest: 68372 Hickman68462 Waverly68526 Lincoln

Social Need / SDOH26%89,227 people

Standing highest: 68462 Waverly68517 Lincoln68523 Lincoln

Risk Behavior19%66,104 people

Standing highest: 68461 Walton68520 Lincoln68523 Lincoln

Climate / Disaster Risk15%51,590 people

Standing highest: 68364 Goehner68419 Panama68514 Lincoln

Mental Health5%18,880 people

Standing highest: 68314 Bee68364 Goehner68520 Lincoln

Preventive Care5%15,794 people

Standing highest: 68461 Walton68520 Lincoln68531 Lincoln

Environmental Hazard4%13,593 people

Standing highest: 68364 Goehner68514 Lincoln68526 Lincoln

Each fifth is about 10 of this metro’s 46 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 344,597 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 Lincoln, NE 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.