How Massachusetts's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across Massachusetts — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.
Data release 2026527 of 532 ZIP codes scored · 7.0M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
Massachusetts's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 50 of 527- 102468in Waban · 5,773 residents75.48
- 202420in Lexington · 16,215 residents74.72
- 302421in Lexington · 18,080 residents74.06
- 402030in Dover · 5,930 residents73.51
- 502459in Newton Center · 18,449 residents73.41
- 602481in Wellesley Hills · 17,415 residents73.39
- 702461in Newton Highlands · 6,975 residents73.14
- 801776in Sudbury · 19,270 residents72.83
- 901741in Carlisle · 5,239 residents72.69
- 1002492in Needham · 21,424 residents72.42
- 1101944in Manchester · 5,403 residents72.41
- 1202478in Belmont · 27,175 residents72.21
- 1302445in Brookline · 22,560 residents72.20
- 1402210in Boston · 6,971 residents72.12
- 1501770in Sherborn · 4,427 residents72.06
- 1602494in Needham Heights · 11,035 residents72.04
- 1701778in Wayland · 14,033 residents71.68
- 1802067in Sharon · 18,538 residents71.60
- 1902493in Weston · 11,579 residents71.46
- 2002465in West Newton · 11,697 residents71.35
- 2101945in Marblehead · 20,470 residents71.31
- 2202464in Newton Upper Falls · 3,833 residents71.22
- 2302482in Wellesley · 11,051 residents70.97
- 2401720in Acton · 23,526 residents70.94
- 2502467in Chestnut Hill · 23,001 residents70.75
- 2602446in Brookline · 31,310 residents70.72
- 2701886in Westford · 24,690 residents70.65
- 2802460in Newtonville · 10,099 residents70.62
- 2902025in Cohasset · 8,427 residents70.54
- 3001890in Winchester · 23,406 residents70.51
- 3101745in Fayville · 586 residents70.48
- 3202474in Arlington · 28,642 residents70.26
- 3302476in Arlington · 17,708 residents70.23
- 3402108in Boston · 3,794 residents70.22
- 3501719in Boxborough · 5,496 residents70.17
- 3602114in Boston · 14,418 residents70.08
- 3702113in Boston · 6,385 residents70.03
- 3801748in Hopkinton · 19,358 residents70.03
- 3901718in Acton · 404 residents70.00
- 4002458in Newton · 13,050 residents69.97
- 4102052in Medfield · 13,068 residents69.92
- 4202110in Boston · 2,342 residents69.87
- 4302199in Boston · 1,292 residents69.86
- 4401775in Stow · 7,165 residents69.74
- 4501742in Concord · 18,448 residents69.63
- 4601035in Hadley · 5,306 residents69.62
- 4701773in Lincoln · 4,891 residents69.59
- 4802543in Woods Hole · 747 residents69.56
- 4901740in Bolton · 5,737 residents69.48
- 5002140in Cambridge · 21,204 residents69.25
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 50 of 527- 52701105in Springfield · 11,843 residents24.44
- 52601107in Springfield · 12,009 residents27.31
- 52501103in Springfield · 2,477 residents29.57
- 52401901in Lynn · 2,419 residents30.08
- 52302746in New Bedford · 17,531 residents31.05
- 52201104in Springfield · 23,209 residents36.22
- 52101109in Springfield · 31,124 residents37.03
- 52002744in New Bedford · 12,716 residents37.64
- 51902740in New Bedford · 46,281 residents37.77
- 51801840in Lawrence · 8,522 residents37.91
- 51701108in Springfield · 27,405 residents38.03
- 51602723in Fall River · 17,067 residents38.29
- 51501151in Indian Orchard · 9,606 residents38.94
- 51402724in Fall River · 18,505 residents39.43
- 51301610in Worcester · 30,444 residents39.64
- 51201040in Holyoke · 37,813 residents40.06
- 51102721in Fall River · 26,521 residents40.07
- 51002121in Dorchester · 29,040 residents41.60
- 50901841in Lawrence · 52,769 residents42.72
- 50802301in Brockton · 68,969 residents43.06
- 50702119in Roxbury · 27,377 residents43.36
- 50601364in Orange · 7,658 residents43.70
- 50501550in Southbridge Town · 17,928 residents44.10
- 50402150in Chelsea · 39,908 residents44.32
- 50301119in Springfield · 13,616 residents44.87
- 50201013in Chicopee · 23,284 residents44.97
- 50101603in Worcester · 20,868 residents45.32
- 50001608in Worcester · 4,932 residents45.65
- 49902745in New Bedford · 24,519 residents46.34
- 49802720in Fall River · 30,940 residents46.38
- 49701850in Lowell · 17,740 residents46.41
- 49601020in Chicopee · 30,167 residents46.48
- 49501605in Worcester · 30,579 residents46.50
- 49401902in Lynn · 50,066 residents46.62
- 49301247in North Adams · 14,794 residents47.04
- 49202126in Mattapan · 26,583 residents47.10
- 49102149in Everett · 50,045 residents47.47
- 49001440in Gardner · 21,276 residents47.49
- 48902302in Brockton · 36,417 residents47.77
- 48801009in Bondsville · 804 residents48.03
- 48701609in Worcester · 22,047 residents48.20
- 48601331in Athol · 13,922 residents48.29
- 48501022in Chicopee · 1,844 residents48.29
- 48401604in Worcester · 39,812 residents48.37
- 48301056in Ludlow · 20,904 residents48.53
- 48201843in Lawrence · 27,445 residents48.74
- 48102576in West Wareham · 4,168 residents48.78
- 48002780in Taunton · 53,461 residents48.79
- 47901420in Fitchburg · 41,839 residents48.85
- 47801570in Webster · 17,748 residents48.87
What the distribution shows
Across Massachusetts’s 532 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 527 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 Massachusetts stands, domain by domain
The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Massachusetts'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.
Preventive Care · 81st
Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 81st percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.
Environmental Hazard · 34th
Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 34th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.
Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means Massachusetts's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe Massachusetts'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.