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ZipVitals

How the Salisbury, MD metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202624 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.13M residents represented

Score snapshot

51.44Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
51.92Median scoremiddle of 24 scored ZIPs
59.18Highest score21810 · Allen
42.65Lowest score21867 · Upper Fairmount
16.53Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#195Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
82%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.11M of 0.13M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.13MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.13MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Salisbury, MD metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Salisbury, MD metro ranking →One page, all 24 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Salisbury, MD 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 24 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access69%89,894 people

Standing highest: 21801 Salisbury21804 Salisbury21853 Princess Anne

Chronic Disease Burden17%22,506 people

Standing highest: 21826 Fruitland21830 Hebron21890 Westover

Disability17%21,641 people

Standing highest: 21826 Fruitland21830 Hebron21890 Westover

Climate / Disaster Risk12%16,033 people

Standing highest: 21810 Allen21849 Parsonsburg21890 Westover

Social Need / SDOH5%7,071 people

Standing highest: 21810 Allen21830 Hebron21840 Nanticoke

Environmental Hazard3%4,031 people

Standing highest: 21821 Deal Island21824 Ewell21838 Marion Station

Preventive Care2%2,205 people

Standing highest: 21814 Bivalve21840 Nanticoke21865 Tyaskin

Risk Behavior2%2,205 people

Standing highest: 21814 Bivalve21840 Nanticoke21865 Tyaskin

Mental Health2%2,205 people

Standing highest: 21814 Bivalve21840 Nanticoke21856 Quantico

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 24 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 129,689 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 Salisbury, MD 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.