How Colorado's ZIP codes measure up on health

Name: Colorado health by ZIP code — ZipVitals Score rollup
Creator: ZipVitals
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The ZipVitals Score across Colorado — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.

Data release 2026502 of 520 ZIP codes scored · 5.9M residents represented

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Score snapshot

58.25Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes

54.99Median scoremiddle of 502 scored ZIPs

72.71Highest score80025 · Eldorado Springs

27.92Lowest score81334 · Towaoc

44.79Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#8State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score

26%Residents in below-average ZIPs1.5M of 5.9M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)

1.0MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs18% of the state

0.24MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs4% of the state

0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Colorado's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 502

Open the full Colorado ranking →One page, all 502 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Colorado’s 520 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 502 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 Colorado stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Colorado'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 · 86th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 86th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Preventive Care · 23rd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 23rd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Chronic Disease Burden86

Social Need / SDOH77

Climate / Disaster Risk77

Risk Behavior77

Disability74

Healthcare Access73

Mental Health55

Environmental Hazard33

Preventive Care23

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