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How the Winchester, VA-WV metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across the Winchester, VA-WV metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.

Data release 202627 of 27 ZIP codes scored · 0.15M residents represented

Score snapshot

51.80Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
43.42Median scoremiddle of 27 scored ZIPs
60.06Highest score22663 · White Post
36.07Lowest score26823 · Capon Springs
23.99Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#183Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
37%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.06M of 0.15M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.15MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.15MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Winchester, VA-WV metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Winchester, VA-WV metro ranking →One page, all 27 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Winchester, VA-WV 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 27 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access62%91,805 people

2 ZIP codes tie at this end: 22601 Winchester22603 Winchester26757 Romney

Social Need / SDOH49%72,318 people

Standing highest: 22624 Clear Brook22645 Middletown22656 Stephenson

Chronic Disease Burden47%69,384 people

Standing highest: 22655 Stephens City22656 Stephenson22663 White Post

Disability47%69,384 people

Standing highest: 22625 Cross Junction22656 Stephenson22663 White Post

Risk Behavior43%63,830 people

Standing highest: 22624 Clear Brook22625 Cross Junction22663 White Post

Mental Health22%32,030 people

Standing highest: 22603 Winchester22624 Clear Brook22663 White Post

Preventive Care18%26,468 people

Standing highest: 22624 Clear Brook22625 Cross Junction22663 White Post

Climate / Disaster Risk6%9,159 people

Standing highest: 22637 Gore26755 Rio26761 Shanks

Environmental Hazard2%2,430 people

Standing highest: 25444 Slanesville26714 Delray26823 Capon Springs

Each fifth is about 6 of this metro’s 27 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 147,458 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 Winchester, VA-WV 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.