How the Mankato, MN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Mankato, MN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202617 of 17 ZIP codes scored · 0.10M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Mankato, MN metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 17 of 17- 3,60856080in St. Clair · 672 residents61.84
- 4,44056063in Madison Lake · 3,221 residents60.56
- 4,47756024in Eagle Lake · 3,647 residents60.50
- 4,65256003in North Mankato · 15,258 residents60.29
- 6,58756054in Lafayette · 853 residents57.77
- 6,65056021in Courtland · 1,108 residents57.69
- 6,95656037in Good Thunder · 1,374 residents57.33
- 7,74556074in Nicollet · 1,845 residents56.51
- 7,82656055in Lake Crystal · 3,898 residents56.44
- 9,52056034in Garden City · 393 residents54.93
- 9,53556078in Pemberton · 451 residents54.92
- 9,75956065in Mapleton · 2,766 residents54.75
- 10,82756010in Amboy · 1,159 residents53.90
- 11,14856082in St. Peter · 14,606 residents53.65
- 11,20956001in Mankato · 51,585 residents53.62
- 11,25856090in Vernon Center · 596 residents53.57
- 13,11856068in Minnesota Lake · 1,041 residents52.24
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 17 of 17- 13,11856068in Minnesota Lake · 1,041 residents52.24
- 11,25856090in Vernon Center · 596 residents53.57
- 11,20956001in Mankato · 51,585 residents53.62
- 11,14856082in St. Peter · 14,606 residents53.65
- 10,82756010in Amboy · 1,159 residents53.90
- 9,75956065in Mapleton · 2,766 residents54.75
- 9,53556078in Pemberton · 451 residents54.92
- 9,52056034in Garden City · 393 residents54.93
- 7,82656055in Lake Crystal · 3,898 residents56.44
- 7,74556074in Nicollet · 1,845 residents56.51
- 6,95656037in Good Thunder · 1,374 residents57.33
- 6,65056021in Courtland · 1,108 residents57.69
- 6,58756054in Lafayette · 853 residents57.77
- 4,65256003in North Mankato · 15,258 residents60.29
- 4,47756024in Eagle Lake · 3,647 residents60.50
- 4,44056063in Madison Lake · 3,221 residents60.56
- 3,60856080in St. Clair · 672 residents61.84
What the distribution shows
Across the Mankato, MN metro’s 17 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 17 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.
Only 17 of the Mankato, MN metro's ZIP codes can be compared with each other across the nine scoring domains — too few to divide into fifths without a single ZIP code swinging the result — so the domain-by-domain breakdown that larger metro pages carry is left out here rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.
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 Mankato, MN 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.