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How the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202612 of 12 ZIP codes scored · 0.30M residents represented

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Score snapshot

56.62Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
55.22Median scoremiddle of 12 scored ZIPs
59.99Highest score98502 · Olympia
48.78Lowest score98530 · Bucoda
11.21Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#70Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
16%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.05M of 0.30M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.30MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.30MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 12 of 12
  1. 4,87898502in Olympia · 35,398 residents59.99
  2. 5,20398501in Tumwater · 48,067 residents59.51
  3. 6,19298516in Lacey · 29,177 residents58.25
  4. 6,38898506in Olympia · 18,497 residents58.01
  5. 7,14398512in Tumwater · 31,864 residents57.14
  6. 8,64598513in Olympia · 38,017 residents55.68
  7. 9,74898503in Lacey · 41,656 residents54.76
  8. 10,52498589in Tenino · 7,010 residents54.14
  9. 12,64298576in Rainier · 4,985 residents52.59
  10. 12,66298597in Yelm · 26,669 residents52.58
  11. 15,46998579in Rochester · 14,048 residents50.56
  12. 17,94698530in Bucoda · 619 residents48.78
Open the full Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro ranking →One page, all 12 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA metro’s 12 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 12 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 12 of the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA 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 Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA 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.