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How the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202673 of 73 ZIP codes scored · 0.57M residents represented

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Score snapshot

48.41Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
51.79Median scoremiddle of 73 scored ZIPs
67.48Highest score18471 · Waverly
28.52Lowest score18503 · Scranton
38.96Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#251Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
70%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.40M of 0.57M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.32MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs56% of the metro
0.42MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs73% of the metro
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The Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 73
  1. 1,14018471in Waverly · 667 residents67.48
  2. 1,93318411in Clarks Summit · 22,820 residents65.18
  3. 2,71618246in Rock Glen · 84 residents63.48
  4. 2,82018707in Mountain Top · 16,689 residents63.28
  5. 3,39118708in Shavertown · 8,867 residents62.21
  6. 3,64318602in Bear Creek Village · 628 residents61.79
  7. 4,46218219in Conyngham · 1,047 residents60.52
  8. 5,58218518in Old Forge · 8,573 residents59.02
  9. 5,93818249in Sugarloaf · 4,191 residents58.56
  10. 6,02018612in Dallas · 17,739 residents58.46
  11. 6,65118644in West Wyoming · 7,552 residents57.69
  12. 6,67318414in Dalton · 5,444 residents57.67
  13. 6,74018507in Moosic · 5,443 residents57.58
  14. 7,15218420in Fleetville · 69 residents57.13
  15. 7,26518433in Mayfield · 7,564 residents57.01
  16. 7,31318241in Nuremberg · 249 residents56.96
  17. 7,46118618in Harveys Lake · 3,570 residents56.80
  18. 8,41018222in Drums · 9,789 residents55.88
  19. 9,41818256in Weston · 185 residents55.02
  20. 9,73118643in Exeter · 12,848 residents54.78
  21. 9,87818615in Falls · 1,646 residents54.66
  22. 10,26918452in Blakely · 5,203 residents54.34
  23. 10,56518512in Dunmore · 12,986 residents54.10
  24. 10,79818621in Hunlock Creek · 4,744 residents53.92
  25. 10,84718225in Harleigh · 0 residents53.88
  26. 10,96118660in Wapwallopen · 3,137 residents53.80
  27. 10,97618419in Factoryville · 4,734 residents53.79
  28. 11,12218403in Archbald · 6,851 residents53.68
  29. 11,24718625in Lake Winola · 114 residents53.59
  30. 12,34918630in Meshoppen · 2,923 residents52.82
  31. 12,48618661in Penn Lake Park · 5,759 residents52.71
  32. 12,71518434in Jessup · 4,031 residents52.53
  33. 12,74818656in Sweet Valley · 2,066 residents52.50
  34. 13,06418446in Nicholson · 3,209 residents52.29
  35. 13,28118444in Moscow · 13,604 residents52.13
  36. 13,71518424in Gouldsboro · 5,213 residents51.79
  37. 13,72018657in Tunkhannock · 10,866 residents51.79
  38. 14,19018655in Shickshinny · 6,018 residents51.46
  39. 14,23618641in Dupont · 6,305 residents51.43
  40. 14,33318447in Olyphant · 9,470 residents51.37
  41. 14,54618635in Nescopeck · 3,734 residents51.20
  42. 15,21518519in Dickson City · 5,266 residents50.74
  43. 15,67718221in Drifton · 436 residents50.42
  44. 17,52018629in Mehoopany · 1,760 residents49.10
  45. 17,54618636in Noxen · 1,610 residents49.08
  46. 17,56018704in Swoyersville · 31,149 residents49.07
  47. 18,82318640in Pittston · 16,581 residents48.08
  48. 19,33618509in Scranton · 13,055 residents47.69
  49. 20,12518701in Wilkes-Barre · 4,294 residents47.03
  50. 20,26918234in Lattimer Mines · 616 residents46.91
Open the full Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro ranking →One page, all 73 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro’s 73 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 73 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.

The Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro has no in-metro comparison group: too few of its ZIP codes carry measured data across all nine scoring domains for the others to be placed against them, so the domain-by-domain breakdown that other metro pages carry is not available here. Every one of its ZIP codes still carries its own Score and its national standing.

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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA 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.