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ZipVitals

How the Lynchburg, VA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202628 of 29 ZIP codes scored · 0.25M residents represented

Score snapshot

51.70Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.39Median scoremiddle of 28 scored ZIPs
64.95Highest score24536 · Coleman Falls
42.83Lowest score24504 · Lynchburg
22.12Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#184Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
58%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.15M of 0.25M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.25MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.25MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Lynchburg, VA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Lynchburg, VA metro ranking →One page, all 28 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Lynchburg, VA 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

6 of 28 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access53%133,129 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 24501 Lynchburg24504 Lynchburg24523 Bedford

Chronic Disease Burden37%94,572 people

Standing highest: 24536 Coleman Falls24551 Forest24595 Sweet Briar

Preventive Care26%64,949 people

Standing highest: 24104 Huddleston24121 Moneta24503 Lynchburg

Mental Health26%64,949 people

Standing highest: 24104 Huddleston24121 Moneta24536 Coleman Falls

Social Need / SDOH25%63,772 people

Standing highest: 24503 Lynchburg24536 Coleman Falls24551 Forest

Risk Behavior25%63,487 people

Standing highest: 24503 Lynchburg24536 Coleman Falls24595 Sweet Briar

Disability22%56,555 people

Standing highest: 24536 Coleman Falls24551 Forest24595 Sweet Briar

Environmental Hazard19%47,128 people

Standing highest: 24526 Big Island24528 Brookneal24536 Coleman Falls

Climate / Disaster Risk11%28,740 people

Standing highest: 24174 Thaxton24523 Bedford24526 Big Island

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 28 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 252,519 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 Lynchburg, VA 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.