How the Merced, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Merced, CA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202619 of 19 ZIP codes scored · 0.29M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Merced, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 19 of 19- 22,17095303in Ballico · 784 residents45.22
- 22,22895348in Merced · 37,540 residents45.17
- 24,11295340in Merced · 38,303 residents43.30
- 24,88993635in Los Banos · 50,149 residents42.42
- 25,10995369in Snelling · 740 residents42.13
- 25,61695315in Delhi · 13,598 residents41.55
- 26,76195334in Livingston · 17,363 residents39.99
- 26,78095301in Atwater · 43,009 residents39.97
- 27,15195324in Hilmar · 7,636 residents39.38
- 27,79895322in Gustine · 9,506 residents38.38
- 28,11595317in El Nido · 827 residents37.83
- 28,20595388in Winton · 13,319 residents37.66
- 29,78693620in Dos Palos · 9,927 residents33.86
- 29,83095312in Cressey · 232 residents33.73
- 29,86395365in Planada · 3,963 residents33.62
- 29,92695333in Le Grand · 2,963 residents33.41
- 30,12593665in South Dos Palos · 114 residents32.68
- 30,39195341in Merced · 36,385 residents31.67
- 31,43595374in Stevinson · 1,921 residents25.32
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 19 of 19- 31,43595374in Stevinson · 1,921 residents25.32
- 30,39195341in Merced · 36,385 residents31.67
- 30,12593665in South Dos Palos · 114 residents32.68
- 29,92695333in Le Grand · 2,963 residents33.41
- 29,86395365in Planada · 3,963 residents33.62
- 29,83095312in Cressey · 232 residents33.73
- 29,78693620in Dos Palos · 9,927 residents33.86
- 28,20595388in Winton · 13,319 residents37.66
- 28,11595317in El Nido · 827 residents37.83
- 27,79895322in Gustine · 9,506 residents38.38
- 27,15195324in Hilmar · 7,636 residents39.38
- 26,78095301in Atwater · 43,009 residents39.97
- 26,76195334in Livingston · 17,363 residents39.99
- 25,61695315in Delhi · 13,598 residents41.55
- 25,10995369in Snelling · 740 residents42.13
- 24,88993635in Los Banos · 50,149 residents42.42
- 24,11295340in Merced · 38,303 residents43.30
- 22,22895348in Merced · 37,540 residents45.17
- 22,17095303in Ballico · 784 residents45.22
What the distribution shows
Across the Merced, CA metro’s 19 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 19 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 19 of the Merced, CA 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 Merced, CA 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.