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How Louisiana's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026508 of 514 ZIP codes scored · 4.6M residents represented

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

Score snapshot

42.27Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
38.92Median scoremiddle of 508 scored ZIPs
66.15Highest score70124 · New Orleans
17.07Lowest score71202 · Monroe
49.08Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#49State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
89%Residents in below-average ZIPs4.1M of 4.6M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.94MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs21% of the state
0.27MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs6% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Louisiana's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 508
  1. 170124in New Orleans · 21,778 residents66.15
  2. 270503in Lafayette · 28,643 residents61.62
  3. 370115in New Orleans · 31,183 residents59.39
  4. 470809in Baton Rouge · 25,732 residents59.20
  5. 570447in Madisonville · 17,897 residents58.74
  6. 670471in Mandeville · 24,199 residents58.66
  7. 770005in Metairie · 24,088 residents57.92
  8. 870558in Milton · 24 residents57.75
  9. 970508in Lafayette · 40,592 residents57.65
  10. 1070130in New Orleans · 12,560 residents57.60
  11. 1170448in Mandeville · 26,338 residents57.53
  12. 1270810in Baton Rouge · 42,659 residents57.40
  13. 1370592in Youngsville · 32,167 residents56.77
  14. 1470817in Baton Rouge · 33,482 residents56.46
  15. 1570002in Metairie · 19,426 residents55.60
  16. 1670123in New Orleans · 27,386 residents55.28
  17. 1770433in Covington · 41,876 residents55.16
  18. 1870818in Central · 9,370 residents54.78
  19. 1970808in Baton Rouge · 35,843 residents54.68
  20. 2070719in Brusly · 4,856 residents54.59
  21. 2170836in Baton Rouge · 501 residents53.94
  22. 2271115in Shreveport · 14,413 residents53.79
  23. 2371110in Barksdale Afb · 2,626 residents53.68
  24. 2470770in Pride · 3,787 residents53.57
  25. 2571004in Belcher · 335 residents53.34
  26. 2670725in Darrow · 943 residents53.10
  27. 2770791in Zachary · 30,385 residents52.99
  28. 2870605in Lake Charles · 40,482 residents52.72
  29. 2970710in Addis · 7,252 residents52.70
  30. 3070420in Abita Springs · 7,950 residents52.65
  31. 3170739in Greenwell Springs · 14,877 residents52.44
  32. 3270001in Metairie · 38,950 residents52.35
  33. 3371225in Calhoun · 6,354 residents52.23
  34. 3470518in Broussard · 17,263 residents52.14
  35. 3570006in Metairie · 16,170 residents52.10
  36. 3670775in St. Francisville · 9,945 residents52.02
  37. 3771459in Fort Polk · 10,270 residents51.88
  38. 3870446in Loranger · 7,173 residents51.83
  39. 3970118in New Orleans · 36,072 residents51.66
  40. 4071485in Woodworth · 2,890 residents51.43
  41. 4170402in Hammond · 1,850 residents51.28
  42. 4270769in Prairieville · 49,278 residents51.19
  43. 4370458in Slidell · 39,034 residents51.17
  44. 4470070in Luling · 13,960 residents51.06
  45. 4570080in Paradis · 586 residents50.98
  46. 4671033in Greenwood · 3,297 residents50.95
  47. 4770734in Geismar · 9,213 residents50.86
  48. 4871105in Shreveport · 20,179 residents50.85
  49. 4970611in Lake Charles · 22,124 residents50.75
  50. 5071006in Benton · 16,454 residents50.47
Open the full Louisiana ranking →One page, all 508 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Louisiana’s 514 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 508 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 Louisiana stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Louisiana'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 · 80th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 80th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Climate / Disaster Risk · 9th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 9th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access80
Preventive Care63
Environmental Hazard54
Chronic Disease Burden41
Social Need / SDOH31
Disability30
Risk Behavior19
Mental Health16
Climate / Disaster Risk9

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