How the Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202613 of 13 ZIP codes scored · 0.18M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 13 of 13- 10,75549437in Montague · 6,895 residents53.96
- 11,03549445in North Muskegon · 21,289 residents53.75
- 11,16349415in Fruitport · 6,330 residents53.65
- 11,82749461in Whitehall · 9,707 residents53.17
- 15,80949441in Norton Shores · 36,779 residents50.32
- 16,09949318in Casnovia · 1,604 residents50.10
- 18,03449303in Bailey · 772 residents48.73
- 18,03949457in Twin Lake · 11,086 residents48.73
- 18,07749451in Ravenna · 6,298 residents48.70
- 21,69049425in Holton · 3,520 residents45.67
- 27,69049444in Norton Shores · 26,372 residents38.56
- 28,08049442in Muskegon · 44,766 residents37.89
- 29,00549440in Muskegon · 1,492 residents35.98
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 13 of 13- 29,00549440in Muskegon · 1,492 residents35.98
- 28,08049442in Muskegon · 44,766 residents37.89
- 27,69049444in Norton Shores · 26,372 residents38.56
- 21,69049425in Holton · 3,520 residents45.67
- 18,07749451in Ravenna · 6,298 residents48.70
- 18,03949457in Twin Lake · 11,086 residents48.73
- 18,03449303in Bailey · 772 residents48.73
- 16,09949318in Casnovia · 1,604 residents50.10
- 15,80949441in Norton Shores · 36,779 residents50.32
- 11,82749461in Whitehall · 9,707 residents53.17
- 11,16349415in Fruitport · 6,330 residents53.65
- 11,03549445in North Muskegon · 21,289 residents53.75
- 10,75549437in Montague · 6,895 residents53.96
What the distribution shows
Across the Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI metro’s 13 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 13 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 13 of the Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI 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 Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI 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.