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How Rhode Island's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 202677 of 77 ZIP codes scored · 1.1M residents represented

Score snapshot

56.47Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
60.52Median scoremiddle of 77 scored ZIPs
71.21Highest score02806 · Barrington
33.57Lowest score02863 · Central Falls
37.64Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#16State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
31%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.34M of 1.1M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.46MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs42% of the state
0.83MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs75% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

Rhode Island's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 77
  1. 102806in Barrington · 17,126 residents71.21
  2. 202835in Jamestown · 5,534 residents69.73
  3. 302874in Saunderstown · 6,379 residents68.16
  4. 402812in Carolina · 1,479 residents67.71
  5. 502898in Wyoming · 1,912 residents67.64
  6. 602871in Portsmouth · 17,488 residents67.15
  7. 702852in North Kingstown · 23,406 residents66.48
  8. 802894in Wood River Junction · 831 residents66.23
  9. 902892in West Kingston · 5,768 residents66.13
  10. 1002837in Little Compton · 3,584 residents65.89
  11. 1102906in Providence · 26,380 residents65.70
  12. 1202808in Bradford · 2,657 residents65.22
  13. 1302818in East Greenwich · 19,786 residents65.12
  14. 1402875in Shannock · 44 residents65.11
  15. 1502879in Wakefield · 21,802 residents65.04
  16. 1602836in Kenyon · 104 residents64.62
  17. 1702921in Cranston · 12,149 residents64.38
  18. 1802841in Newport · 1,426 residents64.35
  19. 1902840in Newport · 23,448 residents63.59
  20. 2002838in Manville · 3,740 residents63.57
  21. 2102872in Prudence Island · 156 residents63.54
  22. 2202882in Narragansett · 13,091 residents63.45
  23. 2302809in Bristol · 22,220 residents63.24
  24. 2402842in Middletown · 16,832 residents63.10
  25. 2502802in Albion · 677 residents63.01
  26. 2602876in Slatersville · 355 residents62.67
  27. 2702891in Westerly · 21,587 residents62.62
  28. 2802917in Smithfield · 15,293 residents62.30
  29. 2902828in Greenville · 7,023 residents62.24
  30. 3002804in Ashaway · 2,609 residents62.07
  31. 3102831in Hope · 3,483 residents61.85
  32. 3202813in Charlestown · 8,051 residents61.72
  33. 3302832in Hope Valley · 4,998 residents61.52
  34. 3402822in Exeter · 6,539 residents61.34
  35. 3502878in Tiverton · 16,189 residents61.01
  36. 3602865in Lincoln · 18,447 residents60.85
  37. 3702857in North Scituate · 8,262 residents60.63
  38. 3802817in West Greenwich · 6,647 residents60.60
  39. 3902881in Kingston · 7,687 residents60.52
  40. 4002864in Cumberland · 36,820 residents60.52
  41. 4102814in Chepachet · 7,587 residents60.31
  42. 4202815in Clayville · 161 residents59.97
  43. 4302896in North Smithfield · 11,583 residents59.73
  44. 4402833in Hopkinton · 499 residents59.69
  45. 4502839in Mapleville · 1,525 residents59.58
  46. 4602858in Oakland · 738 residents59.56
  47. 4702912in Providence · 4,836 residents59.43
  48. 4802885in Warren · 11,144 residents59.31
  49. 4902827in Greene · 2,469 residents59.25
  50. 5002825in Foster · 6,107 residents59.11
Open the full Rhode Island ranking →One page, all 77 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Rhode Island’s 77 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 77 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 Rhode Island stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Rhode Island'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 · 85th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 85th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 27th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 27th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access85
Preventive Care83
Climate / Disaster Risk68
Chronic Disease Burden68
Disability65
Risk Behavior57
Social Need / SDOH54
Mental Health46
Environmental Hazard27

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