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How Kentucky's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026741 of 759 ZIP codes scored · 4.5M residents represented

Open the full ranking →Download the data (CSV)How the Score works

Score snapshot

41.87Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
34.54Median scoremiddle of 741 scored ZIPs
73.94Highest score40041 · Masonic Home
8.97Lowest score40209 · Louisville
64.98Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#50State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
82%Residents in below-average ZIPs3.7M of 4.5M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.86MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs19% of the state
0.12MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs3% of the state
1ZIP in the national top 10040041 · Masonic Home

Kentucky's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 741
  1. 140041in Masonic Home · 564 residents73.94
  2. 240207in St. Matthews · 28,903 residents68.55
  3. 340059in Prospect · 20,892 residents68.34
  4. 440026in Goshen · 5,975 residents67.96
  5. 540025in Glenview · 565 residents67.14
  6. 640513in Lexington · 11,032 residents66.65
  7. 740243in Middletown · 12,002 residents64.47
  8. 840241in Louisville · 30,696 residents63.77
  9. 940223in Louisville · 22,798 residents63.40
  10. 1040205in Louisville · 24,664 residents63.38
  11. 1140245in Louisville · 39,835 residents62.42
  12. 1240014in Crestwood · 23,101 residents61.75
  13. 1340514in Lexington · 16,961 residents61.35
  14. 1440222in Louisville · 21,470 residents60.81
  15. 1541075in Fort Thomas · 17,240 residents60.53
  16. 1640077in Westport · 678 residents60.44
  17. 1741017in Edgewood · 40,719 residents60.34
  18. 1840023in Fisherville · 6,870 residents60.17
  19. 1940515in Lexington · 37,384 residents60.02
  20. 2040010in Buckner · 678 residents59.56
  21. 2140502in Lexington · 26,122 residents59.20
  22. 2240503in Lexington · 27,451 residents58.84
  23. 2341001in Alexandria · 19,323 residents58.36
  24. 2440020in Fairfield · 199 residents58.27
  25. 2540390in Wilmore · 7,429 residents58.20
  26. 2640299in Louisville · 42,207 residents57.89
  27. 2740204in Louisville · 14,034 residents57.52
  28. 2841091in Union · 25,244 residents57.20
  29. 2940056in Pewee Valley · 3,441 residents56.84
  30. 3040347in Midway · 3,960 residents56.60
  31. 3141051in Independence · 33,054 residents56.57
  32. 3240509in Lexington · 47,036 residents56.02
  33. 3440067in Simpsonville · 6,365 residents55.79
  34. 3542103in Bowling Green · 21,911 residents55.51
  35. 3640242in Lyndon · 11,168 residents55.46
  36. 3740516in Lexington · 2,926 residents55.44
  37. 3841076in Cold Spring · 17,158 residents55.35
  38. 3940220in Louisville · 35,078 residents55.16
  39. 4041080in Petersburg · 1,819 residents55.02
  40. 4140206in Louisville · 20,161 residents54.83
  41. 4242122in Alvaton · 5,513 residents54.67
  42. 4341007in Mentor · 4,445 residents54.62
  43. 4441005in Burlington · 25,718 residents53.99
  44. 4540291in Louisville · 41,222 residents53.98
  45. 4640022in Finchville · 903 residents53.94
  46. 4741059in Melbourne · 2,713 residents53.92
  47. 4841048in Hebron · 16,211 residents53.46
  48. 4940383in Versailles · 24,793 residents53.24
  49. 5041085in Silver Grove · 601 residents53.22
  50. 5140217in Louisville · 11,663 residents52.88
Open the full Kentucky ranking →One page, all 741 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Kentucky’s 759 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 741 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 Kentucky stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Kentucky'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 · 75th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 75th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the 5 domains placed here.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 30th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 30th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the 5 domains placed here.

Healthcare Access75
Social Need / SDOH53
Climate / Disaster Risk49
Preventive Care38
Environmental Hazard30
Chronic Disease BurdenNot enough data
Risk BehaviorNot enough data
Mental HealthNot enough data
DisabilityNot enough data

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