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How the New Haven-Milford, CT metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the New Haven-Milford, CT metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202641 of 41 ZIP codes scored · 0.87M residents represented

Score snapshot

56.39Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
61.23Median scoremiddle of 41 scored ZIPs
71.14Highest score06525 · New Haven
25.81Lowest score06702 · Waterbury
45.33Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#73Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
41%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.36M of 0.87M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.87MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.87MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The New Haven-Milford, CT metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 41 of 41
  1. 39506525in New Haven · 9,073 residents71.14
  2. 40406443in Madison · 17,657 residents71.07
  3. 1,05106477in Orange · 14,315 residents67.86
  4. 1,11906524in Bethany · 5,288 residents67.60
  5. 1,36606437in Guilford · 22,067 residents66.73
  6. 1,36806410in Cheshire · 28,904 residents66.72
  7. 1,61906510in New Haven · 4,584 residents66.01
  8. 1,71506478in Oxford · 12,991 residents65.76
  9. 1,92206762in Middlebury · 7,807 residents65.19
  10. 1,93006488in Southbury · 20,071 residents65.18
  11. 2,19206460in Milford · 37,649 residents64.53
  12. 2,84406518in Hamden · 20,126 residents63.22
  13. 2,85106405in Branford · 28,217 residents63.21
  14. 2,89506473in North Haven · 24,743 residents63.14
  15. 3,15406461in Milford · 15,035 residents62.66
  16. 3,16506712in Prospect · 9,458 residents62.63
  17. 3,22706403in Beacon Falls · 6,147 residents62.50
  18. 3,44506716in Wolcott · 16,113 residents62.12
  19. 3,54106471in North Branford · 7,140 residents61.96
  20. 3,88506472in Northford · 6,363 residents61.38
  21. 3,98706517in Hamden · 14,221 residents61.23
  22. 4,35706492in Wallingford · 44,498 residents60.65
  23. 4,76906483in Seymour · 16,889 residents60.12
  24. 5,81606770in Naugatuck · 31,823 residents58.72
  25. 7,21606514in Hamden · 26,803 residents57.06
  26. 7,59406512in New Haven · 28,830 residents56.65
  27. 8,71906401in Ansonia · 19,315 residents55.62
  28. 8,81506418in Derby · 12,205 residents55.54
  29. 12,17806515in New Haven · 19,006 residents52.93
  30. 12,30506516in West Haven · 55,351 residents52.85
  31. 12,80006511in New Haven · 54,730 residents52.47
  32. 13,28006450in Meriden · 35,694 residents52.13
  33. 16,21906451in Meriden · 24,851 residents50.02
  34. 16,67806708in Waterbury · 29,594 residents49.69
  35. 22,15506705in Waterbury · 25,266 residents45.23
  36. 22,93506513in New Haven · 38,888 residents44.48
  37. 25,76106706in Waterbury · 15,551 residents41.38
  38. 27,92406704in Waterbury · 31,713 residents38.14
  39. 27,96706710in Waterbury · 9,942 residents38.07
  40. 28,31706519in New Haven · 15,605 residents37.44
  41. 31,38206702in Waterbury · 2,946 residents25.81
Open the full New Haven-Milford, CT metro ranking →One page, all 41 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole New Haven-Milford, CT 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

9 of 41 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access36%310,453 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 06451 Meriden06516 West Haven06708 Waterbury

Chronic Disease Burden22%192,326 people

Standing highest: 06510 New Haven06511 New Haven06518 Hamden

Environmental Hazard19%165,966 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06478 Oxford06488 Southbury

Risk Behavior18%153,399 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06488 Southbury06525 New Haven

Disability18%152,528 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06510 New Haven06525 New Haven

Mental Health17%146,631 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06477 Orange06525 New Haven

Climate / Disaster Risk17%137,280 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 06510 New Haven06519 New Haven06710 Waterbury

Preventive Care16%137,486 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06488 Southbury06525 New Haven

Social Need / SDOH14%125,605 people

Standing highest: 06443 Madison06477 Orange06525 New Haven

Each fifth is about 9 of this metro’s 41 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 867,469 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 New Haven-Milford, CT 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.