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How Nebraska's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026566 of 580 ZIP codes scored · 2.0M residents represented

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

Score snapshot

56.66Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
54.03Median scoremiddle of 566 scored ZIPs
72.04Highest score68118 · Omaha
24.25Lowest score69212 · Crookston
47.79Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#15State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
37%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.73M of 2.0M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.60MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs30% of the state
0.22MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs11% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Nebraska's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 566
  1. 168118in Omaha · 9,169 residents72.04
  2. 268130in Omaha · 21,722 residents70.02
  3. 368022in Elkhorn · 36,538 residents69.49
  4. 468526in Lincoln · 7,944 residents69.28
  5. 568116in Omaha · 34,501 residents68.89
  6. 668136in Omaha · 22,163 residents68.85
  7. 768135in Omaha · 30,523 residents68.72
  8. 868007in Bennington · 19,536 residents68.29
  9. 968520in Lincoln · 2,762 residents68.17
  10. 1068523in Lincoln · 2,031 residents67.47
  11. 1168028in Gretna · 17,529 residents67.35
  12. 1268133in Papillion · 14,729 residents66.65
  13. 1368516in Lincoln · 48,903 residents66.37
  14. 1468372in Hickman · 4,135 residents66.35
  15. 1568461in Walton · 503 residents65.96
  16. 1668430in Roca · 1,989 residents65.83
  17. 1768154in Omaha · 24,060 residents65.77
  18. 1868527in Lincoln · 2,318 residents65.74
  19. 1968512in Lincoln · 13,802 residents65.62
  20. 2068142in Omaha · 4,505 residents65.46
  21. 2168046in Papillion · 35,085 residents65.44
  22. 2268317in Bennet · 1,984 residents65.25
  23. 2368419in Panama · 242 residents64.98
  24. 2468438in Sprague · 176 residents64.90
  25. 2568124in Omaha · 15,482 residents64.64
  26. 2668517in Lincoln · 415 residents64.41
  27. 2768144in Omaha · 25,732 residents64.34
  28. 2868059in Springfield · 3,373 residents64.16
  29. 2968114in Omaha · 17,596 residents64.13
  30. 3068358in Firth · 1,701 residents64.04
  31. 3168404in Martell · 1,039 residents63.90
  32. 3268164in Omaha · 28,564 residents63.86
  33. 3368462in Waverly · 4,928 residents63.63
  34. 3468138in Omaha · 11,713 residents63.34
  35. 3568368in Hallam · 477 residents63.06
  36. 3668122in Omaha · 13,352 residents63.02
  37. 3768532in Lincoln · 785 residents62.78
  38. 3868128in La Vista · 18,924 residents62.75
  39. 3968336in Davey · 496 residents62.70
  40. 4068123in Bellevue · 33,804 residents62.69
  41. 4168113in Offutt Afb · 892 residents62.48
  42. 4268069in Waterloo · 3,207 residents62.43
  43. 4368339in Denton · 1,154 residents62.38
  44. 4468132in Omaha · 13,960 residents62.35
  45. 4568407in Murdock · 878 residents61.74
  46. 4668634in Duncan · 635 residents61.72
  47. 4768304in Alvo · 414 residents61.70
  48. 4868106in Omaha · 21,224 residents61.54
  49. 4968647in Monroe · 702 residents61.39
  50. 5068137in Omaha · 24,277 residents61.32
Open the full Nebraska ranking →One page, all 566 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Nebraska’s 580 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 566 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 Nebraska stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Nebraska'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

Mental Health · 87th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 87th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 23rd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 23rd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Mental Health87
Chronic Disease Burden75
Disability70
Social Need / SDOH66
Healthcare Access60
Risk Behavior54
Preventive Care41
Climate / Disaster Risk38
Environmental Hazard23

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