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How Arkansas's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across Arkansas — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.

Data release 2026562 of 586 ZIP codes scored · 3.0M residents represented

Score snapshot

43.69Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
39.29Median scoremiddle of 562 scored ZIPs
65.08Highest score72212 · Little Rock
18.15Lowest score72082 · Kensett
46.93Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#47State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
85%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.6M of 3.0M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.77MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs26% of the state
0.15MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

Arkansas's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 562
  1. 172212in Little Rock · 13,698 residents65.08
  2. 272099in Little Rock Air Force Base · 629 residents64.92
  3. 372223in Little Rock · 26,986 residents64.81
  4. 472207in Little Rock · 10,631 residents64.64
  5. 572201in Little Rock · 795 residents64.43
  6. 672718in Cave Springs · 5,806 residents63.76
  7. 772211in Little Rock · 22,335 residents61.85
  8. 872714in Bella Vista · 14,350 residents60.47
  9. 972712in Bentonville · 38,690 residents60.23
  10. 1072719in Centerton · 19,701 residents60.12
  11. 1172715in Bella Vista · 17,288 residents59.59
  12. 1272739in Hiwasse · 463 residents57.70
  13. 1372113in Maumelle · 25,596 residents57.68
  14. 1472122in Paron · 1,471 residents56.90
  15. 1572205in Little Rock · 23,043 residents56.66
  16. 1672135in Roland · 3,239 residents56.52
  17. 1772704in Fayetteville · 32,497 residents56.16
  18. 1872730in Farmington · 11,570 residents56.07
  19. 1972116in North Little Rock · 22,464 residents55.70
  20. 2072758in Rogers · 48,233 residents55.52
  21. 2172227in Little Rock · 11,284 residents55.44
  22. 2271998in Arkadelphia · 669 residents55.16
  23. 2372751in Pea Ridge · 9,997 residents55.11
  24. 2472916in Fort Smith · 11,711 residents54.21
  25. 2572022in Bryant · 18,808 residents53.88
  26. 2672120in Sherwood · 34,365 residents53.66
  27. 2772745in Lowell · 15,447 residents53.56
  28. 2872210in Little Rock · 15,621 residents53.46
  29. 2972019in Benton · 30,055 residents53.42
  30. 3072166in Tichnor · 264 residents52.76
  31. 3172703in Fayetteville · 35,896 residents52.52
  32. 3272007in Austin · 10,579 residents52.28
  33. 3372202in Little Rock · 9,704 residents52.16
  34. 3471909in Hot Springs Village · 18,449 residents51.90
  35. 3572055in Gillett · 472 residents51.47
  36. 3672057in Grapevine · 1,231 residents51.33
  37. 3772732in Gateway · 5,392 residents50.38
  38. 3872908in Fort Smith · 14,288 residents50.34
  39. 3972426in Dell · 168 residents50.28
  40. 4071964in Pearcy · 4,572 residents50.13
  41. 4172722in Decatur · 2,876 residents50.06
  42. 4272727in Goshen · 6,703 residents49.86
  43. 4372058in Greenbrier · 18,880 residents49.57
  44. 4472936in Greenwood · 14,070 residents49.53
  45. 4571999in Arkadelphia · 450 residents49.50
  46. 4672736in Gravette · 7,886 residents49.33
  47. 4772734in Highfill · 8,694 residents49.33
  48. 4872002in Alexander · 21,495 residents49.26
  49. 4972762in Springdale · 46,092 residents49.14
  50. 5072034in Conway · 50,285 residents49.10
Open the full Arkansas ranking →One page, all 562 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Arkansas’s 586 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 562 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.

Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →

Where Arkansas stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Arkansas's ZIP codes sit against ZIP codes across the country on each of them, weighted by how many residents live in each one — strongest at the top.

Strongest domain

Healthcare Access · 80th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 80th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Climate / Disaster Risk · 21st

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 21st percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access80
Environmental Hazard49
Social Need / SDOH42
Chronic Disease Burden41
Risk Behavior32
Disability30
Preventive Care29
Mental Health26
Climate / Disaster Risk21

Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means Arkansas's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain Arkansas cannot place honestly is shown greyed as "Not enough data" rather than given a number.

Each figure is the population-weighted average of this state's ZIP codes' standing on that domain, compared with the ZIP codes measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. A ZIP code counts toward a domain only if it carries enough measured data on it and enough of Arkansas's residents live in the ZIP codes that do; the rest are held out rather than filled in from a coarser geography. 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 Arkansas figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe Arkansas's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the state.

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.