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How Pennsylvania's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 20261,748 of 1,780 ZIP codes scored · 13.0M residents represented

Score snapshot

50.80Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
50.03Median scoremiddle of 1,748 scored ZIPs
74.52Highest score15015 · Bradford Woods
13.60Lowest score19133 · Philadelphia
60.92Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#37State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
58%Residents in below-average ZIPs7.5M of 13.0M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.50MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs4% of the state
1.1MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs8% of the state
1ZIP in the national top 10015015 · Bradford Woods

Pennsylvania's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 1,748
  1. 115015in Bradford Woods · 1,291 residents74.52
  2. 219436in Gwynedd · 435 residents73.66
  3. 315082in Sturgeon · 275 residents73.56
  4. 419375in Unionville · 234 residents73.11
  5. 518913in Carversville · 243 residents72.96
  6. 615086in Warrendale · 788 residents72.84
  7. 719437in Gwynedd Valley · 531 residents72.22
  8. 819102in Philadelphia · 6,195 residents72.04
  9. 916827in Boalsburg · 5,123 residents71.63
  10. 1018046in East Texas · 201 residents71.62
  11. 1119341in Exton · 21,709 residents71.47
  12. 1219477in Spring House · 136 residents71.46
  13. 1319035in Gladwyne · 3,937 residents71.30
  14. 1416868in Pine Grove Mills · 1,050 residents71.14
  15. 1518977in Washington Crossing · 4,569 residents71.13
  16. 1619103in Philadelphia · 25,900 residents70.83
  17. 1719301in Paoli · 7,814 residents70.82
  18. 1819456in Oaks · 286 residents70.75
  19. 1919333in Devon · 7,471 residents70.74
  20. 2019118in Philadelphia · 9,978 residents70.66
  21. 2119312in Berwyn · 12,283 residents70.58
  22. 2215142in Presto · 1,513 residents70.29
  23. 2319041in Haverford · 6,308 residents70.19
  24. 2419425in Chester Springs · 17,219 residents70.13
  25. 2519106in Philadelphia · 14,597 residents69.74
  26. 2615241in Bethel Park · 22,294 residents69.66
  27. 2718938in New Hope · 13,649 residents69.48
  28. 2817016in Cornwall · 909 residents69.43
  29. 2919072in Narberth · 10,129 residents69.34
  30. 3019025in Dresher · 7,423 residents69.11
  31. 3119350in Landenberg · 10,945 residents69.07
  32. 3218940in Newtown · 29,626 residents69.02
  33. 3319317in Chadds Ford · 10,864 residents68.98
  34. 3419031in Flourtown · 4,929 residents68.88
  35. 3519422in Blue Bell · 20,412 residents68.74
  36. 3615075in Rural Ridge · 22 residents68.53
  37. 3719066in Merion Station · 5,839 residents68.47
  38. 3817606in Lancaster · 404 residents68.46
  39. 3919096in Wynnewood · 15,249 residents68.42
  40. 4015090in Wexford · 25,763 residents68.41
  41. 4115367in Venetia · 9,906 residents68.34
  42. 4215101in Allison Park · 26,036 residents67.94
  43. 4319355in Malvern · 29,425 residents67.79
  44. 4415484in Uledi · 792 residents67.75
  45. 4519348in Kennett Square · 23,621 residents67.74
  46. 4619373in Thornton · 2,357 residents67.57
  47. 4715238in Fox Chapel · 12,868 residents67.53
  48. 4818471in Waverly · 667 residents67.48
  49. 4919004in Bala Cynwyd · 11,230 residents67.43
  50. 5019380in West Chester · 49,856 residents67.40
Open the full Pennsylvania ranking →One page, all 1,748 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Pennsylvania’s 1,780 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 1,748 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 Pennsylvania stands, domain by domain

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

Climate / Disaster Risk · 70th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 70th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the 5 domains placed here.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 17th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 17th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the 5 domains placed here.

Climate / Disaster Risk70
Preventive Care69
Healthcare Access68
Social Need / SDOH51
Environmental Hazard17
Chronic Disease BurdenNot enough data
Risk BehaviorNot enough data
Mental HealthNot enough data
DisabilityNot enough data

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