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How the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 2026113 of 116 ZIP codes scored · 1.4M residents represented

Score snapshot

46.96Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
48.20Median scoremiddle of 113 scored ZIPs
73.94Highest score40041 · Masonic Home
8.97Lowest score40209 · Louisville
64.98Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#279Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
67%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.91M of 1.4M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.61MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs44% of the metro
0.63MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs46% of the metro
1ZIP in the national top 10040041 · Masonic Home

The Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 113
  1. 9740041in Masonic Home · 564 residents73.94
  2. 87240207in St. Matthews · 28,903 residents68.55
  3. 93440059in Prospect · 20,892 residents68.34
  4. 1,02240026in Goshen · 5,975 residents67.96
  5. 1,23840025in Glenview · 565 residents67.14
  6. 2,22240243in Middletown · 12,002 residents64.47
  7. 2,58740241in Louisville · 30,696 residents63.77
  8. 2,75740223in Louisville · 22,798 residents63.40
  9. 2,76440205in Louisville · 24,664 residents63.38
  10. 3,28240245in Louisville · 39,835 residents62.42
  11. 3,66740014in Crestwood · 23,101 residents61.75
  12. 4,25740222in Louisville · 21,470 residents60.81
  13. 4,45247119in Floyds Knobs · 12,042 residents60.54
  14. 4,52540077in Westport · 678 residents60.44
  15. 4,74240023in Fisherville · 6,870 residents60.17
  16. 5,17840010in Buckner · 678 residents59.56
  17. 6,18040020in Fairfield · 199 residents58.27
  18. 6,49640299in Louisville · 42,207 residents57.89
  19. 6,61547106in Borden · 4,670 residents57.74
  20. 6,77740204in Louisville · 14,034 residents57.52
  21. 7,13347124in Greenville · 5,357 residents57.15
  22. 7,33947122in Georgetown · 11,357 residents56.93
  23. 7,42140056in Pewee Valley · 3,441 residents56.84
  24. 8,52440067in Simpsonville · 6,365 residents55.79
  25. 8,58547143in Memphis · 3,833 residents55.74
  26. 8,91240242in Lyndon · 11,168 residents55.46
  27. 9,26840220in Louisville · 35,078 residents55.16
  28. 9,65140206in Louisville · 20,161 residents54.83
  29. 10,48647136in Lanesville · 4,756 residents54.16
  30. 10,72840291in Louisville · 41,222 residents53.98
  31. 10,78140022in Finchville · 903 residents53.94
  32. 11,38047160in New Middletown · 55 residents53.49
  33. 11,49247172in Sellersburg · 21,045 residents53.41
  34. 12,26340217in Louisville · 11,663 residents52.88
  35. 12,94947162in New Washington · 514 residents52.37
  36. 13,29847166in Ramsey · 1,484 residents52.11
  37. 13,36240031in La Grange · 26,259 residents52.07
  38. 13,56840107in Boston · 2,187 residents51.91
  39. 13,92147104in Bethlehem · 9 residents51.64
  40. 14,41847141in Marysville · 1,584 residents51.30
  41. 14,46847111in Charlestown · 17,738 residents51.26
  42. 15,00440003in Bagdad · 1,807 residents50.90
  43. 15,87247163in Otisco · 1,335 residents50.27
  44. 16,14140047in Mount Washington · 23,662 residents50.07
  45. 16,26447147in Nabb · 1,317 residents49.99
  46. 16,29847161in New Salisbury · 3,611 residents49.96
  47. 16,31840071in Taylorsville · 17,239 residents49.95
  48. 16,43140110in Clermont · 440 residents49.87
  49. 16,65147112in Corydon · 17,464 residents49.70
  50. 16,73640012in Chaplin · 712 residents49.64
Open the full Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro ranking →One page, all 113 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 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

23 of 113 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access39%537,421 people

5 ZIP codes tie at this end: 40004 Bardstown47112 Corydon47130 Jeffersonville47150 New Albany47167 Salem

Social Need / SDOH27%362,546 people

7 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Preventive Care23%319,867 people

10 ZIP codes share this standing see them in the full ranking →

Risk Behavior22%58,818 people

Standing highest: 47106 Borden47119 Floyds Knobs47172 Sellersburg

Chronic Disease Burden20%53,698 people

Standing highest: 47104 Bethlehem47143 Memphis47160 New Middletown

Mental Health15%40,150 people

Standing highest: 47106 Borden47119 Floyds Knobs47122 Georgetown

Disability14%37,323 people

Standing highest: 47119 Floyds Knobs47143 Memphis47160 New Middletown

Climate / Disaster Risk7%91,501 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 40208 Louisville40211 Louisville47166 Ramsey

Environmental Hazard4%53,989 people

4 ZIP codes tie at this end: 40007 Bethlehem40104 Battletown40161 Rhodelia47104 Bethlehem

Each fifth is about 23 of this metro’s 113 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 271,922 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 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.