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How the Morgantown, WV metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202622 of 22 ZIP codes scored · 0.14M residents represented

Score snapshot

47.90Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
42.35Median scoremiddle of 22 scored ZIPs
54.56Highest score26508 · Morgantown
35.82Lowest score26410 · Newburg
18.75Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#264Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
71%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.10M of 0.14M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.14MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.14MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Morgantown, WV metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Morgantown, WV metro ranking →One page, all 22 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Morgantown, WV 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.

Chronic Disease Burden76%106,674 people

Standing highest: 26505 Morgantown26508 Morgantown26534 Granville

Disability51%71,757 people

Standing highest: 26501 Westover26508 Morgantown26525 Brandonville

Mental Health38%52,874 people

Standing highest: 26508 Morgantown26521 Blacksville26590 Wana

Risk Behavior34%47,114 people

Standing highest: 26508 Morgantown26521 Blacksville26590 Wana

Social Need / SDOH33%46,215 people

Standing highest: 26508 Morgantown26542 Masontown26590 Wana

Preventive Care32%45,147 people

Standing highest: 26508 Morgantown26521 Blacksville26590 Wana

Healthcare Access24%33,073 people

Standing highest: 26501 Westover26525 Brandonville26541 Maidsville

Climate / Disaster Risk12%16,828 people

Standing highest: 26705 Aurora26716 Eglon26764 Terra Alta

Environmental Hazard10%13,652 people

Standing highest: 26425 Rowlesburg26705 Aurora26716 Eglon

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 139,535 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 Morgantown, WV 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.