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ZipVitals

How the Ocala, FL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202626 of 26 ZIP codes scored · 0.39M residents represented

Score snapshot

47.88Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
46.39Median scoremiddle of 26 scored ZIPs
54.02Highest score34476 · Ocala
37.89Lowest score34475 · Ocala
16.13Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#266Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
93%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.36M of 0.39M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.39MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.39MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Ocala, FL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Ocala, FL 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 Ocala, FL 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.

Chronic Disease Burden40%157,224 people

Standing highest: 34471 Ocala34474 Ocala34480 Ocala

Mental Health36%140,112 people

Standing highest: 34476 Ocala34481 Ocala34491 Summerfield

Healthcare Access33%127,928 people

Standing highest: 34470 Ocala34471 Ocala34474 Ocala

Risk Behavior31%121,866 people

Standing highest: 34476 Ocala34481 Ocala34491 Summerfield

Preventive Care29%111,510 people

Standing highest: 34476 Ocala34481 Ocala34491 Summerfield

Disability28%108,149 people

Standing highest: 34471 Ocala34474 Ocala34480 Ocala

Social Need / SDOH26%101,883 people

Standing highest: 32133 Eastlake Weir34471 Ocala34480 Ocala

Climate / Disaster Risk26%100,238 people

Standing highest: 32681 Orange Lake34476 Ocala34480 Ocala

Environmental Hazard22%85,360 people

Standing highest: 32134 Fort Mc Coy32195 Weirsdale34473 Ocala

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 26 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 391,248 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 Ocala, FL 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.