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How Illinois's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 20261,368 of 1,381 ZIP codes scored · 12.7M residents represented

Score snapshot

54.64Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.93Median scoremiddle of 1,368 scored ZIPs
75.29Highest score60043 · Kenilworth
23.14Lowest score61104 · Rockford
52.16Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#20State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
42%Residents in below-average ZIPs5.3M of 12.7M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.3MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs10% of the state
0.64MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
1ZIP in the national top 10060043 · Kenilworth

Illinois's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 1,368
  1. 160043in Kenilworth · 2,503 residents75.29
  2. 260022in Glencoe · 8,352 residents72.79
  3. 360521in Hinsdale · 18,056 residents72.63
  4. 460091in Wilmette · 27,333 residents72.61
  5. 560661in Chicago · 11,398 residents72.44
  6. 660654in Chicago · 25,755 residents72.32
  7. 760606in Chicago · 3,840 residents72.12
  8. 860093in Winnetka · 19,867 residents71.83
  9. 960045in Lake Forest · 21,074 residents71.80
  10. 1060061in Vernon Hills · 27,974 residents71.34
  11. 1160540in Naperville · 42,252 residents71.27
  12. 1260611in Chicago · 37,705 residents71.05
  13. 1360657in Chicago · 71,904 residents70.96
  14. 1460035in Highland Park · 30,398 residents70.88
  15. 1560069in Lincolnshire · 8,502 residents70.86
  16. 1660565in Naperville · 40,483 residents70.82
  17. 1760601in Chicago · 15,235 residents70.82
  18. 1860026in Glenview · 14,069 residents70.59
  19. 1960301in Oak Park · 3,475 residents70.37
  20. 2060519in Eola · 61 residents70.30
  21. 2160564in Naperville · 47,016 residents70.26
  22. 2260044in Lake Bluff · 10,312 residents70.23
  23. 2360015in Deerfield · 28,096 residents70.21
  24. 2460195in Schaumburg · 4,397 residents70.07
  25. 2560558in Western Springs · 13,446 residents69.98
  26. 2660614in Chicago · 70,693 residents69.59
  27. 2760089in Buffalo Grove · 42,872 residents69.58
  28. 2860062in Northbrook · 41,406 residents69.55
  29. 2960047in Long Grove · 44,240 residents69.44
  30. 3060192in Hoffman Estates · 16,461 residents69.43
  31. 3160563in Naperville · 39,330 residents69.14
  32. 3260602in Chicago · 1,480 residents69.06
  33. 3360029in Golf · 518 residents68.92
  34. 3460189in Wheaton · 31,042 residents68.90
  35. 3560605in Chicago · 36,210 residents68.82
  36. 3660173in Schaumburg · 13,650 residents68.66
  37. 3760203in Skokie · 4,680 residents68.63
  38. 3860048in Libertyville · 29,124 residents68.63
  39. 3960305in River Forest · 11,992 residents68.45
  40. 4060010in Barrington Hills · 45,747 residents68.35
  41. 4160642in Chicago · 21,789 residents68.28
  42. 4260304in Oak Park · 16,955 residents68.03
  43. 4360514in Clarendon Hills · 9,918 residents67.90
  44. 4460126in Elmhurst · 47,516 residents67.32
  45. 4560613in Chicago · 52,244 residents67.19
  46. 4660068in Park Ridge · 38,650 residents67.06
  47. 4760712in Lincolnwood · 13,112 residents67.05
  48. 4860607in Chicago · 32,392 residents66.89
  49. 4961525in Dunlap · 12,357 residents66.88
  50. 5060610in Chicago · 44,883 residents66.86
Open the full Illinois ranking →One page, all 1,368 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Illinois’s 1,381 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 1,368 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 Illinois stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Illinois'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 · 76th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 76th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 20th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 20th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access76
Mental Health71
Chronic Disease Burden71
Disability66
Climate / Disaster Risk59
Risk Behavior54
Social Need / SDOH53
Preventive Care41
Environmental Hazard20

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