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How Mississippi's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026406 of 416 ZIP codes scored · 2.9M residents represented

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

Score snapshot

44.33Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
41.15Median scoremiddle of 406 scored ZIPs
65.80Highest score39110 · Madison
17.74Lowest score39193 · Whitfield
48.07Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#46State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
84%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.5M of 2.9M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.79MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs27% of the state
0.15MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Mississippi's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 406
  1. 139110in Madison · 50,443 residents65.80
  2. 239534in Biloxi · 1,857 residents65.01
  3. 338672in Southaven · 16,436 residents59.68
  4. 439309in Meridian · 335 residents59.45
  5. 539174in Tougaloo · 485 residents58.61
  6. 639047in Flowood · 40,808 residents58.29
  7. 739157in Ridgeland · 24,562 residents58.22
  8. 839042in Brandon · 39,142 residents57.75
  9. 939525in Diamondhead · 9,338 residents57.38
  10. 1039564in Ocean Springs · 43,240 residents57.23
  11. 1139232in Flowood · 9,222 residents57.13
  12. 1239211in Jackson · 23,838 residents56.41
  13. 1339216in Jackson · 2,902 residents56.24
  14. 1439705in Columbus · 12,552 residents56.02
  15. 1538826in Belden · 5,894 residents55.58
  16. 1638949in Paris · 287 residents55.57
  17. 1738654in Olive Branch · 57,898 residents55.38
  18. 1839056in Clinton · 26,836 residents55.15
  19. 1938655in Oxford · 46,156 residents54.79
  20. 2038673in Taylor · 1,056 residents54.78
  21. 2138651in Nesbit · 8,731 residents54.39
  22. 2239272in Byram · 14,348 residents54.33
  23. 2339201in Jackson · 858 residents54.31
  24. 2438632in Hernando · 31,374 residents54.08
  25. 2539154in Raymond · 9,255 residents53.79
  26. 2639402in Hattiesburg · 44,620 residents53.37
  27. 2739740in Caledonia · 6,143 residents52.95
  28. 2838870in Smithville · 2,133 residents52.72
  29. 2939156in Redwood · 878 residents52.35
  30. 3039071in Flora · 5,776 residents52.06
  31. 3139762in Mississippi State · 5,076 residents51.99
  32. 3239475in Purvis · 14,530 residents51.44
  33. 3339560in Long Beach · 18,702 residents51.23
  34. 3438677in University · 5,395 residents50.94
  35. 3539335in Lauderdale · 2,564 residents50.81
  36. 3639337in Little Rock · 1,472 residents50.77
  37. 3739325in Collinsville · 5,997 residents50.63
  38. 3839736in Artesia · 338 residents50.59
  39. 3939565in Vancleave · 20,984 residents50.50
  40. 4038857in Mooreville · 4,132 residents50.46
  41. 4139752in Mathiston · 2,347 residents50.45
  42. 4239540in D'Iberville · 13,203 residents50.37
  43. 4339759in Starkville · 42,783 residents50.30
  44. 4439571in Pass Christian · 14,739 residents50.16
  45. 4539145in Pelahatchie · 5,295 residents50.12
  46. 4638804in Tupelo · 16,693 residents49.98
  47. 4739465in Petal · 22,882 residents49.96
  48. 4838866in Saltillo · 12,429 residents49.76
  49. 4939532in Biloxi · 36,662 residents49.71
  50. 5038849in Guntown · 5,792 residents49.42
Open the full Mississippi ranking →One page, all 406 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Mississippi’s 416 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 406 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 Mississippi stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Mississippi'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 · 77th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 77th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Climate / Disaster Risk · 19th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 19th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access77
Mental Health64
Environmental Hazard62
Chronic Disease Burden36
Social Need / SDOH34
Risk Behavior32
Disability28
Preventive Care24
Climate / Disaster Risk19

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