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ZipVitals

How the Rockford, IL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202625 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.34M residents represented

Score snapshot

46.73Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.75Median scoremiddle of 25 scored ZIPs
60.64Highest score61011 · Caledonia
23.14Lowest score61104 · Rockford
37.50Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#288Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
67%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.22M of 0.34M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.34MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.34MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Rockford, IL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Rockford, IL metro ranking →One page, all 25 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Rockford, IL 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

5 of 25 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access34%113,460 people

Standing highest: 61101 Rockford61103 Rockford61107 Rockford

Climate / Disaster Risk24%79,273 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61107 Rockford61108 Rockford

Social Need / SDOH13%44,459 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61077 Seward61114 Rockford

Risk Behavior13%43,812 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61112 Cherry Valley61114 Rockford

Chronic Disease Burden12%39,292 people

Standing highest: 61012 Capron61065 Poplar Grove61073 Roscoe

Disability11%38,263 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61073 Roscoe61077 Seward

Preventive Care9%29,785 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61112 Cherry Valley61114 Rockford

Mental Health7%23,828 people

Standing highest: 61011 Caledonia61112 Cherry Valley61114 Rockford

Environmental Hazard5%17,206 people

Standing highest: 61024 Durand61077 Seward61079 Shirland

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 25 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 335,429 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 Rockford, IL 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.