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How the Pocatello, ID metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202610 of 10 ZIP codes scored · 0.09M residents represented

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Score snapshot

51.44Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
51.80Median scoremiddle of 10 scored ZIPs
56.64Highest score83245 · Inkom
50.33Lowest score83246 · Lava Hot Springs
6.31Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#197Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
96%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.09M of 0.09M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.09MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.09MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

The Pocatello, ID metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 10 of 10
  1. 7,60683245in Inkom · 2,321 residents56.64
  2. 8,34083209in Pocatello · 937 residents55.94
  3. 11,63783281in Swanlake · 148 residents53.30
  4. 13,00983234in Downey · 1,417 residents52.32
  5. 13,62083201in Pocatello · 39,902 residents51.87
  6. 13,79883214in Arimo · 586 residents51.73
  7. 13,93883250in McCammon · 2,179 residents51.63
  8. 14,90783204in Pocatello · 18,580 residents50.96
  9. 15,72483202in Pocatello · 24,513 residents50.38
  10. 15,79983246in Lava Hot Springs · 821 residents50.33
Open the full Pocatello, ID metro ranking →One page, all 10 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Pocatello, ID metro’s 10 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 10 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 10 of the Pocatello, ID 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 Pocatello, ID 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.