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How the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202621 of 21 ZIP codes scored · 0.27M residents represented

Score snapshot

58.32Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
60.33Median scoremiddle of 21 scored ZIPs
70.23Highest score93424 · Avila Beach
43.45Lowest score93410 · San Luis Obispo
26.78Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#41Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
14%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.04M of 0.27M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.27MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.27MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro ranking →One page, all 21 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA 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 21 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access47%129,590 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93401 San Luis Obispo93422 Atascadero93465 Templeton

Disability32%86,745 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93402 Los Osos93424 Avila Beach93465 Templeton

Chronic Disease Burden23%63,365 people

Standing highest: 93405 San Luis Obispo93410 San Luis Obispo93461 Shandon

Social Need / SDOH22%60,788 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93401 San Luis Obispo93424 Avila Beach93449 Pismo Beach

Climate / Disaster Risk14%37,643 people

6 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93402 Los Osos93410 San Luis Obispo93424 Avila Beach93445 Oceano93449 Pismo Beach93452 San Simeon

Preventive Care11%30,071 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93424 Avila Beach93428 Cambria93449 Pismo Beach

Risk Behavior11%30,071 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93424 Avila Beach93428 Cambria93449 Pismo Beach

Mental Health7%18,717 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93424 Avila Beach93428 Cambria93452 San Simeon

Environmental Hazard6%17,265 people

Standing highest: 93424 Avila Beach93433 Grover Beach93453 Santa Margarita

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 274,691 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA 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.