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ZipVitals

How the Santa Fe, NM metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202613 of 13 ZIP codes scored · 0.16M residents represented

Score snapshot

60.15Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
61.40Median scoremiddle of 13 scored ZIPs
66.90Highest score87540 · Lamy
47.76Lowest score87522 · Chimayo
19.14Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#21Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
2%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.00M of 0.16M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.16MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.16MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Santa Fe, NM metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Santa Fe, NM metro ranking →One page, all 13 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Santa Fe, NM metro’s 13 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 13 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.

Only 13 of the Santa Fe, NM metro's ZIP codes can be compared with each other across the nine scoring domains — too few to divide into fifths without a single ZIP code swinging the result — so the domain-by-domain breakdown that larger metro pages carry is left out here rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.

Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →

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 Santa Fe, NM 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.