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How North Carolina's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026793 of 806 ZIP codes scored · 10.7M residents represented

Score snapshot

53.58Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
49.91Median scoremiddle of 793 scored ZIPs
74.64Highest score27560 · Morrisville
23.69Lowest score27844 · Hollister
50.95Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#24State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
52%Residents in below-average ZIPs5.6M of 10.7M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.5MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs14% of the state
0.33MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs3% of the state
2ZIPs in the national top 100led by 27560 · Morrisville

North Carolina's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 793
  1. 127560in Morrisville · 40,792 residents74.64
  2. 227519in Cary · 69,836 residents74.11
  3. 328207in Charlotte · 9,527 residents72.78
  4. 427608in Raleigh · 12,604 residents72.20
  5. 527523in Apex · 20,269 residents70.25
  6. 627613in Raleigh · 45,235 residents70.19
  7. 728480in Wrightsville Beach · 2,776 residents69.95
  8. 827502in Apex · 48,530 residents69.69
  9. 927513in Cary · 46,979 residents69.33
  10. 1028277in Charlotte · 73,882 residents69.15
  11. 1127617in Raleigh · 20,237 residents69.03
  12. 1227518in Cary · 19,735 residents68.89
  13. 1327539in Apex · 25,878 residents68.57
  14. 1428204in Charlotte · 9,314 residents68.55
  15. 1527517in Chapel Hill · 29,564 residents68.44
  16. 1628203in Charlotte · 18,823 residents68.30
  17. 1727540in Holly Springs · 47,771 residents67.96
  18. 1828270in Charlotte · 32,448 residents67.78
  19. 1927615in Raleigh · 46,019 residents67.68
  20. 2027612in Raleigh · 41,952 residents67.46
  21. 2127571in Rolesville · 9,095 residents67.43
  22. 2228209in Charlotte · 24,331 residents67.42
  23. 2328226in Charlotte · 39,381 residents67.39
  24. 2428036in Davidson · 22,963 residents67.21
  25. 2527614in Raleigh · 34,226 residents67.15
  26. 2627949in Kitty Hawk · 8,251 residents66.97
  27. 2728717in Cashiers · 1,265 residents66.71
  28. 2827562in New Hill · 5,659 residents66.65
  29. 2928211in Charlotte · 33,925 residents66.33
  30. 3027713in Durham · 59,197 residents66.24
  31. 3127310in Oak Ridge · 8,622 residents66.02
  32. 3228173in Waxhaw · 65,274 residents65.96
  33. 3328078in Huntersville · 71,657 residents65.66
  34. 3427605in Raleigh · 6,286 residents65.53
  35. 3528374in Pinehurst · 19,782 residents65.52
  36. 3627510in Carrboro · 13,868 residents65.50
  37. 3727609in Raleigh · 35,573 residents65.48
  38. 3827587in Wake Forest · 82,886 residents65.19
  39. 3927516in Chapel Hill · 47,358 residents65.17
  40. 4028757in Montreat · 630 residents65.09
  41. 4128774in Sapphire · 1,451 residents65.09
  42. 4228031in Cornelius · 31,733 residents64.86
  43. 4328575in Indian Beach · 169 residents64.81
  44. 4428202in Charlotte · 17,653 residents64.80
  45. 4528117in Mooresville · 48,826 residents64.53
  46. 4628104in Weddington · 36,641 residents64.34
  47. 4728105in Matthews · 46,817 residents64.32
  48. 4827312in Pittsboro · 23,341 residents64.28
  49. 4928449in Kure Beach · 2,131 residents64.24
  50. 5027455in Greensboro · 29,302 residents64.15
Open the full North Carolina ranking →One page, all 793 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across North Carolina’s 806 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 793 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 North Carolina stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where North Carolina'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 · 75th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 75th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Climate / Disaster Risk · 40th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 40th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access75
Risk Behavior67
Social Need / SDOH61
Preventive Care59
Chronic Disease Burden57
Disability52
Environmental Hazard47
Mental Health43
Climate / Disaster Risk40

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