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How the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202611 of 11 ZIP codes scored · 0.11M residents represented

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Score snapshot

45.24Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
44.82Median scoremiddle of 11 scored ZIPs
53.13Highest score46365 · Mill Creek
37.81Lowest score46348 · La Crosse
15.32Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#320Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
100%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.11M of 0.11M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.11MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.11MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 11 of 11
  1. 11,88946365in Mill Creek · 992 residents53.13
  2. 13,56546371in Rolling Prairie · 3,396 residents51.92
  3. 18,46646382in Union Mills · 1,835 residents48.36
  4. 20,19646350in La Porte · 44,763 residents46.97
  5. 22,34046346in Kingsford Heights · 1,358 residents45.06
  6. 22,60246345in Kingsbury · 66 residents44.82
  7. 23,12146360in Michigan City · 43,817 residents44.30
  8. 23,70546390in Wanatah · 2,554 residents43.70
  9. 26,98346391in Westville · 8,986 residents39.65
  10. 27,17046340in Hanna · 1,524 residents39.35
  11. 28,13146348in La Crosse · 1,217 residents37.81
Open the full Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro ranking →One page, all 11 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro’s 11 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 11 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 11 of the Michigan City-La Porte, IN 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 Michigan City-La Porte, 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.