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How California's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 20261,719 of 1,756 ZIP codes scored · 39.2M residents represented

Score snapshot

54.89Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.35Median scoremiddle of 1,719 scored ZIPs
76.84Highest score95014 · Cupertino
20.77Lowest score92266 · Palo Verde
56.06Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#19State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
44%Residents in below-average ZIPs17.4M of 39.2M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.4MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs4% of the state
0.50MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs1% of the state
15ZIPs in the national top 100led by 95014 · Cupertino

California's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 1,719
  1. 195014in Cupertino · 60,932 residents76.84
  2. 294539in Fremont · 52,396 residents76.67
  3. 394024in Los Altos · 23,051 residents76.20
  4. 494022in Los Altos Hills · 20,027 residents76.18
  5. 594065in Redwood City · 11,673 residents75.76
  6. 694404in Foster City · 35,881 residents75.48
  7. 794582in San Ramon · 47,424 residents75.45
  8. 891108in San Marino · 12,401 residents75.45
  9. 995070in Saratoga · 31,417 residents75.30
  10. 1094304in Palo Alto · 5,000 residents74.95
  11. 1195135in San Jose · 20,129 residents74.81
  12. 1292014in Del Mar · 13,105 residents74.70
  13. 1394087in Sunnyvale · 57,767 residents74.50
  14. 1494129in San Francisco · 3,836 residents74.46
  15. 1592130in San Diego · 60,768 residents74.34
  16. 1694707in Berkeley · 12,811 residents73.68
  17. 1792127in San Diego · 50,555 residents73.51
  18. 1892657in Newport Coast · 9,920 residents73.44
  19. 1994563in Orinda · 19,378 residents73.28
  20. 2094027in Atherton · 7,002 residents73.25
  21. 2194306in Palo Alto · 27,183 residents73.06
  22. 2294568in Dublin · 70,803 residents72.96
  23. 2392620in Irvine · 61,631 residents72.90
  24. 2494301in Palo Alto · 17,508 residents72.90
  25. 2591011in La Cañada Flintridge · 19,935 residents72.85
  26. 2694708in Berkeley · 11,947 residents72.84
  27. 2795129in San Jose · 41,321 residents72.84
  28. 2895120in San Jose · 36,967 residents72.74
  29. 2994040in Mountain View · 35,632 residents72.63
  30. 3094502in Alameda · 13,430 residents72.56
  31. 3194402in San Mateo · 25,475 residents72.53
  32. 3294131in San Francisco · 28,504 residents72.43
  33. 3390274in Palos Verdes Estates · 25,059 residents72.39
  34. 3494588in Pleasanton · 34,328 residents72.39
  35. 3592602in Irvine · 28,261 residents72.31
  36. 3692131in San Diego · 35,503 residents72.25
  37. 3794010in Hillsborough · 43,025 residents72.25
  38. 3894105in San Francisco · 13,861 residents72.17
  39. 3994043in Mountain View · 33,176 residents72.16
  40. 4094114in San Francisco · 33,020 residents72.15
  41. 4194127in San Francisco · 20,288 residents72.14
  42. 4290266in Manhattan Beach · 34,210 residents72.07
  43. 4394002in Belmont · 27,534 residents72.01
  44. 4494506in Danville · 27,055 residents72.00
  45. 4592603in Irvine · 18,387 residents71.98
  46. 4694086in Sunnyvale · 49,746 residents71.97
  47. 4794618in Oakland · 16,958 residents71.90
  48. 4891105in Pasadena · 12,531 residents71.89
  49. 4990094in Playa Vista · 11,764 residents71.88
  50. 5094920in Tiburon · 12,609 residents71.78
Open the full California ranking →One page, all 1,719 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across California’s 1,756 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 1,719 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 California stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where California'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

Chronic Disease Burden · 85th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 85th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 26th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 26th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Chronic Disease Burden85
Healthcare Access83
Risk Behavior65
Mental Health62
Climate / Disaster Risk58
Disability58
Social Need / SDOH52
Preventive Care27
Environmental Hazard26

Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means California's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain California 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 California'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 California figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe California'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.