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ZipVitals

How the Tallahassee, FL metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202624 of 25 ZIP codes scored · 0.39M residents represented

Score snapshot

52.82Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
45.84Median scoremiddle of 24 scored ZIPs
65.71Highest score32312 · Tallahassee
28.28Lowest score32324 · Chattahoochee
37.44Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#160Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
46%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.18M of 0.39M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.39MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.39MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Tallahassee, FL metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Tallahassee, FL metro ranking →One page, all 24 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Tallahassee, FL 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 24 ZIPs

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

Chronic Disease Burden48%187,596 people

Standing highest: 32301 Tallahassee32304 Tallahassee32311 Tallahassee

Healthcare Access46%179,786 people

Standing highest: 32301 Tallahassee32303 Tallahassee32308 Tallahassee

Social Need / SDOH35%136,837 people

Standing highest: 32308 Tallahassee32312 Tallahassee32317 Tallahassee

Mental Health33%126,725 people

Standing highest: 32309 Tallahassee32312 Tallahassee32317 Tallahassee

Disability33%126,725 people

Standing highest: 32309 Tallahassee32312 Tallahassee32317 Tallahassee

Preventive Care30%116,269 people

Standing highest: 32309 Tallahassee32312 Tallahassee32317 Tallahassee

Risk Behavior30%116,269 people

Standing highest: 32308 Tallahassee32309 Tallahassee32312 Tallahassee

Climate / Disaster Risk16%63,863 people

Standing highest: 32301 Tallahassee32308 Tallahassee32332 Gretna

Environmental Hazard6%23,561 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 32324 Chattahoochee32346 Panacea32361 Wacissa

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 24 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 388,921 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 Tallahassee, FL 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.