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ZipVitals

How the Springfield, IL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202630 of 30 ZIP codes scored · 0.21M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.14Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
54.46Median scoremiddle of 30 scored ZIPs
65.92Highest score62711 · Springfield
38.20Lowest score62703 · Springfield
27.72Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#153Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
43%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.09M of 0.21M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.21MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.21MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Springfield, IL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Springfield, IL metro ranking →One page, all 30 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Springfield, IL 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

6 of 30 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access57%118,723 people

Standing highest: 62701 Springfield62702 Springfield62703 Springfield

Climate / Disaster Risk38%78,130 people

Standing highest: 62693 Williamsville62701 Springfield62703 Springfield

Disability28%57,220 people

Standing highest: 62563 Rochester62629 Chatham62712 Springfield

Risk Behavior27%56,592 people

Standing highest: 62536 Glenarm62711 Springfield62712 Springfield

Social Need / SDOH23%48,178 people

Standing highest: 62629 Chatham62684 Sherman62711 Springfield

Chronic Disease Burden21%43,859 people

Standing highest: 62563 Rochester62629 Chatham62712 Springfield

Preventive Care20%42,182 people

Standing highest: 62536 Glenarm62711 Springfield62712 Springfield

Mental Health20%42,182 people

Standing highest: 62536 Glenarm62711 Springfield62712 Springfield

Environmental Hazard3%6,053 people

Standing highest: 62536 Glenarm62545 Mechanicsburg62673 Oakford

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 30 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 207,042 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 Springfield, IL 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.