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ZipVitals

How the Macon-Bibb County, GA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Macon-Bibb County, GA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202621 of 22 ZIP codes scored · 0.23M residents represented

Score snapshot

43.66Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
47.33Median scoremiddle of 21 scored ZIPs
58.61Highest score31210 · Macon
24.50Lowest score31206 · Macon
34.11Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#340Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
73%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.16M of 0.23M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.23MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.23MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Macon-Bibb County, GA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Macon-Bibb County, GA metro ranking →One page, all 21 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Macon-Bibb County, GA 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 21 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access48%109,734 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 31029 Forsyth31204 Macon31217 Macon

Social Need / SDOH34%76,593 people

Standing highest: 31032 Gray31046 Juliette31210 Macon

Preventive Care28%64,305 people

Standing highest: 31016 Culloden31046 Juliette31220 Macon

Risk Behavior28%64,305 people

Standing highest: 31046 Juliette31210 Macon31220 Macon

Mental Health28%64,305 people

Standing highest: 31016 Culloden31210 Macon31220 Macon

Disability28%63,725 people

Standing highest: 31046 Juliette31210 Macon31220 Macon

Chronic Disease Burden25%56,203 people

Standing highest: 31207 Macon31210 Macon31220 Macon

Environmental Hazard4%9,947 people

Standing highest: 31016 Culloden31050 Knoxville31066 Musella

Climate / Disaster Risk4%9,424 people

Standing highest: 31050 Knoxville31066 Musella31207 Macon

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 227,331 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 Macon-Bibb County, GA 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.