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Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score

Every Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.

Data release 202617 ZIP codes in this ranking

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#ZIP code · locatorScore
  1. 1,22795033in Los Gatos · 9,600 residents67.19
  2. 1,88995003in Aptos · 24,951 residents65.30
  3. 2,10495066in Scotts Valley · 15,135 residents64.74
  4. 2,68295073in Soquel · 11,639 residents63.57
  5. 2,93595041in Mount Hermon · 623 residents63.05
  6. 2,94195018in Felton · 6,594 residents63.05
  7. 3,44195005in Ben Lomond · 7,277 residents62.13
  8. 3,84195006in Boulder Creek · 7,561 residents61.46
  9. 3,89695065in Santa Cruz · 7,997 residents61.36
  10. 4,66495062in Santa Cruz · 35,607 residents60.26
  11. 4,84495060in Santa Cruz · 46,268 residents60.03
  12. 5,50795010in Capitola · 8,707 residents59.13
  13. 5,83295017in Davenport · 616 residents58.70
  14. 6,05995007in Brookdale · 396 residents58.42
  15. 7,51795064in Santa Cruz · 10,168 residents56.74
  16. 10,67395019in Watsonville · 5,933 residents54.02
  17. 18,75295076in Watsonville · 82,806 residents48.15

How this ranking works

Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 17 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.

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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.