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How the Norwich-New London, CT metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202630 of 31 ZIP codes scored · 0.27M residents represented

Score snapshot

58.39Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
59.84Median scoremiddle of 30 scored ZIPs
66.87Highest score06371 · Old Lyme
50.54Lowest score06360 · Norwich
16.33Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#39Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
25%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.07M of 0.27M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.27MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.27MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Norwich-New London, CT metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Norwich-New London, CT metro ranking →One page, all 30 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Norwich-New London, 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

6 of 29 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access35%93,608 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 06320 New London06340 Groton06385 Waterford

Chronic Disease Burden27%73,078 people

Standing highest: 06333 East Lyme06340 Groton06420 Salem

Risk Behavior23%62,243 people

Standing highest: 06355 Mystic06371 Old Lyme06378 Stonington

Mental Health23%62,243 people

Standing highest: 06355 Mystic06371 Old Lyme06378 Stonington

Preventive Care22%59,222 people

Standing highest: 06355 Mystic06371 Old Lyme06378 Stonington

Social Need / SDOH21%55,351 people

Standing highest: 06371 Old Lyme06378 Stonington06415 Colchester

Disability21%55,351 people

Standing highest: 06333 East Lyme06371 Old Lyme06420 Salem

Environmental Hazard18%47,744 people

Standing highest: 06336 Gilman06350 Hanover06359 North Stonington

Climate / Disaster Risk11%25,099 people

Standing highest: 06353 Montville06370 Oakdale06420 Salem

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 29 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 269,455 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 Norwich-New London, 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.