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How New Mexico's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026337 of 365 ZIP codes scored · 2.1M residents represented

Score snapshot

49.82Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
46.70Median scoremiddle of 337 scored ZIPs
70.55Highest score87544 · Los Alamos
12.11Lowest score87018 · Counselor
58.43Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#39State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
62%Residents in below-average ZIPs1.3M of 2.1M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.68MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs32% of the state
0.11MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

New Mexico's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 337
  1. 187544in Los Alamos · 13,598 residents70.55
  2. 287122in Albuquerque · 18,578 residents69.57
  3. 387540in Lamy · 1,117 residents66.90
  4. 487501in Santa Fe · 16,007 residents66.83
  5. 587508in Santa Fe · 18,518 residents64.66
  6. 687505in Santa Fe · 32,092 residents64.37
  7. 787047in Sandia Park · 5,402 residents63.95
  8. 887580in Valdez · 245 residents63.94
  9. 988011in Las Cruces · 33,064 residents63.82
  10. 1087514in Arroyo Seco · 1,589 residents63.71
  11. 1187113in Albuquerque · 16,074 residents63.60
  12. 1288004in Las Cruces · 1,080 residents63.47
  13. 1387111in Albuquerque · 57,085 residents63.31
  14. 1487056in Stanley · 1,084 residents63.00
  15. 1587043in Placitas · 4,223 residents62.54
  16. 1687048in Corrales · 9,069 residents61.93
  17. 1787010in Cerrillos · 1,135 residents61.84
  18. 1887525in Taos Ski Valley · 65 residents61.53
  19. 1987535in Glorieta · 1,467 residents61.40
  20. 2087529in El Prado · 4,538 residents60.77
  21. 2187506in Santa Fe · 16,372 residents59.89
  22. 2287543in Llano · 288 residents59.64
  23. 2387008in Cedar Crest · 2,520 residents59.54
  24. 2487114in Albuquerque · 70,117 residents59.24
  25. 2587144in Rio Rancho · 51,837 residents59.08
  26. 2688002in White Sands Missile Range · 1,609 residents58.80
  27. 2787116in Albuquerque · 3,865 residents58.80
  28. 2887025in Jemez Springs · 1,299 residents58.38
  29. 2987120in Albuquerque · 66,097 residents58.14
  30. 3087059in Tijeras · 10,241 residents58.08
  31. 3187556in Questa · 3,008 residents58.04
  32. 3287124in Rio Rancho · 58,499 residents58.04
  33. 3388316in Capitan · 2,194 residents57.87
  34. 3487731in Montezuma · 355 residents57.71
  35. 3587513in Arroyo Hondo · 811 residents57.70
  36. 3687564in San Cristobal · 203 residents57.67
  37. 3787512in Amalia · 372 residents57.58
  38. 3887112in Albuquerque · 44,250 residents57.37
  39. 3987524in Costilla · 450 residents57.17
  40. 4087104in Albuquerque · 12,853 residents56.73
  41. 4187745in Sapello · 1,553 residents56.66
  42. 4287539in La Madera · 250 residents56.55
  43. 4388341in Nogal · 653 residents56.38
  44. 4487519in Cerro · 798 residents56.30
  45. 4587044in Ponderosa · 289 residents56.22
  46. 4688312in Alto · 3,287 residents55.88
  47. 4787507in Santa Fe · 51,386 residents55.76
  48. 4887109in Albuquerque · 39,324 residents55.72
  49. 4987742in Rociada · 321 residents55.69
  50. 5087581in Vallecitos · 0 residents55.59
Open the full New Mexico ranking →One page, all 337 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across New Mexico’s 365 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 337 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 New Mexico stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where New Mexico'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 · 74th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 74th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Preventive Care · 14th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 14th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access74
Risk Behavior70
Climate / Disaster Risk66
Chronic Disease Burden65
Environmental Hazard58
Mental Health51
Social Need / SDOH42
Disability38
Preventive Care14

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