Skip to main content
ZipVitals

How District of Columbia's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202628 of 45 ZIP codes scored · 0.68M residents represented

Score snapshot

62.27Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
66.51Median scoremiddle of 28 scored ZIPs
75.33Highest score20036 · Washington
30.25Lowest score20064 · Washington
45.08Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#1State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
24%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.16M of 0.68M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.68MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs100% of the state
0.68MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs100% of the state
2ZIPs in the national top 100led by 20036 · Washington

District of Columbia's ZIP codes, ranked

Open the full District of Columbia ranking →One page, all 28 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across District of Columbia’s 45 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 28 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 District of Columbia stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where District of Columbia'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 · 91st

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 91st percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 22nd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 22nd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access91
Chronic Disease Burden84
Disability77
Mental Health73
Social Need / SDOH73
Risk Behavior62
Preventive Care58
Climate / Disaster Risk56
Environmental Hazard22

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