How the Sumter, SC metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Sumter, SC metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202611 of 11 ZIP codes scored · 0.11M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Sumter, SC metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 11 of 11- 8,93329152in Shaw Afb · 1,967 residents55.44
- 11,88629040in Dalzell · 8,920 residents53.13
- 12,38829062in Horatio · 10 residents52.79
- 14,96829154in Sumter · 29,454 residents50.92
- 21,84529150in Sumter · 38,538 residents45.52
- 23,46529051in Gable · 758 residents43.95
- 24,54029125in Pinewood · 2,861 residents42.81
- 25,11229104in Mayesville · 1,732 residents42.12
- 26,11529153in Sumter · 14,434 residents40.90
- 27,59729128in Rembert · 4,460 residents38.69
- 29,02429168in Wedgefield · 2,903 residents35.93
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 11 of 11- 29,02429168in Wedgefield · 2,903 residents35.93
- 27,59729128in Rembert · 4,460 residents38.69
- 26,11529153in Sumter · 14,434 residents40.90
- 25,11229104in Mayesville · 1,732 residents42.12
- 24,54029125in Pinewood · 2,861 residents42.81
- 23,46529051in Gable · 758 residents43.95
- 21,84529150in Sumter · 38,538 residents45.52
- 14,96829154in Sumter · 29,454 residents50.92
- 12,38829062in Horatio · 10 residents52.79
- 11,88629040in Dalzell · 8,920 residents53.13
- 8,93329152in Shaw Afb · 1,967 residents55.44
What the distribution shows
Across the Sumter, SC metro’s 11 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 11 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 11 of the Sumter, SC 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 Sumter, SC 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.