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How South Carolina's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026417 of 420 ZIP codes scored · 5.2M residents represented

Score snapshot

51.80Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
46.98Median scoremiddle of 417 scored ZIPs
71.95Highest score29482 · Sullivan's Island
25.29Lowest score29570 · McColl
46.67Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#33State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
56%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.9M of 5.2M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.3MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs25% of the state
0.25MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

South Carolina's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 417
  1. 129482in Sullivan's Island · 2,087 residents71.95
  2. 229451in Isle of Palms · 4,362 residents71.29
  3. 329409in Charleston · 2,056 residents68.05
  4. 429466in Mount Pleasant · 44,942 residents67.70
  5. 529464in Mount Pleasant · 53,045 residents66.94
  6. 629928in Hilton Head Island · 15,785 residents66.45
  7. 729613in Travelers Rest · 2,359 residents66.07
  8. 829439in Folly Beach · 1,125 residents66.04
  9. 929708in Tega Cay · 43,515 residents65.63
  10. 1029492in Charleston · 20,436 residents65.58
  11. 1129375in Reidville · 177 residents64.67
  12. 1229915in Daufuskie Island · 619 residents64.58
  13. 1329905in Parris Island · 1,729 residents64.56
  14. 1429707in Fort Mill · 37,629 residents64.51
  15. 1529909in Okatie · 24,003 residents64.27
  16. 1629585in Pawleys Island · 16,966 residents64.17
  17. 1729455in Johns Island · 27,576 residents64.11
  18. 1829412in Charleston · 39,256 residents63.77
  19. 1929681in Simpsonville · 68,650 residents63.27
  20. 2029414in Charleston · 44,727 residents63.20
  21. 2129206in Forest Acres · 19,759 residents63.18
  22. 2229650in Greer · 42,493 residents62.90
  23. 2329910in Bluffton · 53,019 residents62.87
  24. 2429072in Lexington · 69,407 residents62.29
  25. 2529063in Irmo · 38,201 residents62.05
  26. 2629715in Fort Mill · 46,865 residents61.98
  27. 2729401in Charleston · 9,339 residents61.78
  28. 2829036in Chapin · 26,620 residents61.77
  29. 2929926in Hilton Head Island · 24,458 residents61.46
  30. 3029907in Beaufort · 15,190 residents61.13
  31. 3129615in Greenville · 38,811 residents61.12
  32. 3229487in Rockville · 2,703 residents60.70
  33. 3329429in Awendaw · 4,479 residents60.64
  34. 3429404in Charleston Afb · 2,334 residents60.64
  35. 3529582in North Myrtle Beach · 20,158 residents60.08
  36. 3629607in Greenville · 46,209 residents59.92
  37. 3729860in North Augusta · 18,201 residents59.88
  38. 3829016in Blythewood · 30,454 residents59.80
  39. 3929680in Simpsonville · 35,770 residents59.72
  40. 4029407in Charleston · 36,706 residents59.68
  41. 4129803in Aiken · 40,699 residents59.60
  42. 4229576in Murrells Inlet · 34,695 residents59.39
  43. 4329229in Columbia · 51,861 residents59.28
  44. 4429601in Greenville · 13,790 residents59.18
  45. 4529614in Greenville · 1,848 residents59.14
  46. 4629075in Little Mountain · 2,848 residents59.02
  47. 4729904in Beaufort · 1,600 residents58.80
  48. 4829687in Taylors · 44,861 residents58.56
  49. 4929575in Surfside Beach · 20,721 residents58.53
  50. 5029732in Rock Hill · 57,675 residents58.52
Open the full South Carolina ranking →One page, all 417 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across South Carolina’s 420 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 417 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 South Carolina stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where South 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 · 73rd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 73rd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Climate / Disaster Risk · 29th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 29th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access73
Preventive Care63
Social Need / SDOH55
Risk Behavior54
Mental Health53
Chronic Disease Burden52
Disability49
Environmental Hazard46
Climate / Disaster Risk29

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