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ZipVitals

How the Modesto, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202626 of 26 ZIP codes scored · 0.56M residents represented

Score snapshot

45.33Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
46.46Median scoremiddle of 26 scored ZIPs
52.80Highest score95368 · Salida
32.98Lowest score95319 · Empire
19.82Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#316Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
100%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.56M of 0.56M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.56MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.56MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Modesto, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Modesto, CA metro ranking →One page, all 26 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Modesto, CA 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 26 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access46%259,806 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 95350 Modesto95355 Modesto95382 Turlock

Social Need / SDOH31%176,261 people

Standing highest: 95356 Modesto95361 Oakdale95382 Turlock

Climate / Disaster Risk28%158,224 people

Standing highest: 95230 Farmington95361 Oakdale95387 Westley

Disability28%156,592 people

Standing highest: 95323 Hickman95368 Salida95382 Turlock

Risk Behavior26%144,405 people

Standing highest: 95230 Farmington95356 Modesto95382 Turlock

Preventive Care25%140,132 people

Standing highest: 95230 Farmington95329 La Grange95356 Modesto

Mental Health25%140,047 people

Standing highest: 95356 Modesto95368 Salida95387 Westley

Chronic Disease Burden20%112,021 people

Standing highest: 95363 Patterson95368 Salida95387 Westley

Environmental Hazard7%37,404 people

Standing highest: 95230 Farmington95363 Patterson95385 Vernalis

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 26 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 560,028 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 Modesto, 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.