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How the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202623 of 23 ZIP codes scored · 0.44M residents represented

Score snapshot

55.67Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
61.10Median scoremiddle of 23 scored ZIPs
68.65Highest score93108 · Santa Barbara
41.00Lowest score93434 · Guadalupe
27.65Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#92Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
38%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.17M of 0.44M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.44MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.44MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro ranking →One page, all 23 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, 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 23 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access39%171,981 people

4 ZIP codes tie at this end: 93105 Santa Barbara93111 Santa Barbara93436 Lompoc93454 Santa Maria

Chronic Disease Burden38%166,495 people

Standing highest: 93103 Santa Barbara93117 Goleta93437 Lompoc

Mental Health18%77,803 people

Standing highest: 93105 Santa Barbara93108 Santa Barbara93111 Santa Barbara

Environmental Hazard16%71,018 people

Standing highest: 93109 Santa Barbara93254 New Cuyama93437 Lompoc

Social Need / SDOH16%70,858 people

Standing highest: 93105 Santa Barbara93108 Santa Barbara93110 Santa Barbara

Risk Behavior14%63,501 people

Standing highest: 93105 Santa Barbara93108 Santa Barbara93463 Solvang

Preventive Care11%46,328 people

Standing highest: 93105 Santa Barbara93108 Santa Barbara93463 Solvang

Disability11%46,278 people

Standing highest: 93067 Summerland93108 Santa Barbara93437 Lompoc

Climate / Disaster Risk4%17,388 people

Standing highest: 93067 Summerland93429 Casmalia93437 Lompoc

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 23 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 438,462 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, 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.