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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
- 1,22395033in Los Gatos · 9,600 residents67.20
- 1,88295003in Aptos · 24,951 residents65.31
- 2,10495066in Scotts Valley · 15,135 residents64.76
- 2,68495073in Soquel · 11,639 residents63.57
- 2,92695018in Felton · 6,594 residents63.08
- 2,93495041in Mount Hermon · 623 residents63.06
- 3,42395005in Ben Lomond · 7,277 residents62.16
- 3,81095006in Boulder Creek · 7,561 residents61.49
- 3,88895065in Santa Cruz · 7,997 residents61.37
- 4,66195062in Santa Cruz · 35,607 residents60.27
- 4,83695060in Santa Cruz · 46,268 residents60.04
- 5,49795010in Capitola · 8,707 residents59.14
- 5,82895017in Davenport · 616 residents58.71
- 6,05795007in Brookdale · 396 residents58.42
- 7,51695064in Santa Cruz · 10,168 residents56.75
- 10,66595019in Watsonville · 5,933 residents54.03
- 18,74795076in 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.