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ZipVitals

How the Yakima, WA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202621 of 21 ZIP codes scored · 0.26M residents represented

Score snapshot

47.01Metro-wide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
45.01Median scoremiddle of 21 scored ZIPs
56.67Highest score98921 · Buena
38.21Lowest score98938 · Outlook
18.46Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#277Among 386 metrosby population-weighted average
85%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.22M of 0.26M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.26MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0.26MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the metro
0ZIPs in the national top 100

The Yakima, WA metro's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full Yakima, WA metro ranking →One page, all 21 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

Where each domain sits inside this metro

The Score above is one number for the whole Yakima, WA 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 21 ZIPs

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

Healthcare Access54%139,452 people

3 ZIP codes tie at this end: 98902 Yakima98944 Sunnyside98948 Toppenish

Preventive Care34%88,375 people

Standing highest: 98908 Yakima98937 Naches98942 Selah

Risk Behavior34%88,375 people

Standing highest: 98908 Yakima98942 Selah98953 Zillah

Disability28%72,965 people

Standing highest: 98908 Yakima98936 Moxee98942 Selah

Social Need / SDOH25%65,451 people

Standing highest: 98908 Yakima98921 Buena98933 Harrah

Mental Health20%50,633 people

Standing highest: 98908 Yakima98921 Buena98953 Zillah

Chronic Disease Burden15%37,506 people

Standing highest: 98921 Buena98936 Moxee98953 Zillah

Climate / Disaster Risk12%29,968 people

Standing highest: 98923 Cowiche98937 Naches98947 Tieton

Environmental Hazard7%17,590 people

Standing highest: 98938 Outlook98939 Parker98952 White Swan

Each fifth is about 5 of this metro’s 21 compared ZIP codes, and the shares are out of 258,099 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 Yakima, WA 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.