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How Tennessee's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026616 of 627 ZIP codes scored · 7.1M residents represented

Open the full ranking →Download the data (CSV)How the Score works

Score snapshot

45.69Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
40.84Median scoremiddle of 616 scored ZIPs
69.80Highest score37350 · Lookout Mountain
20.21Lowest score38106 · Memphis
49.59Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#45State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
80%Residents in below-average ZIPs5.6M of 7.1M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.3MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs19% of the state
0.34MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Tennessee's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 616
  1. 137350in Lookout Mountain · 2,111 residents69.80
  2. 238139in Germantown · 16,466 residents66.63
  3. 337027in Brentwood · 61,630 residents66.08
  4. 437220in Oak Hill · 5,265 residents65.77
  5. 537067in Franklin · 31,556 residents65.27
  6. 638138in Germantown · 25,167 residents64.25
  7. 738120in Memphis · 13,309 residents63.79
  8. 837215in Forest Hills · 22,018 residents63.63
  9. 937135in Nolensville · 24,409 residents63.62
  10. 1037205in Nashville · 24,823 residents63.55
  11. 1137934in Farragut · 28,272 residents62.80
  12. 1237069in Franklin · 20,209 residents62.50
  13. 1337219in Nashville · 2,398 residents62.45
  14. 1437922in Knoxville · 40,394 residents62.10
  15. 1537204in Nashville · 16,469 residents61.81
  16. 1638017in Collierville · 56,826 residents61.47
  17. 1737201in Nashville · 1,467 residents61.25
  18. 1837315in Collegedale · 1,825 residents61.16
  19. 1937377in Signal Mountain · 17,188 residents61.02
  20. 2037221in Nashville · 41,935 residents59.98
  21. 2137179in Thompson's Station · 18,043 residents59.69
  22. 2238029in Ellendale · 0 residents59.43
  23. 2338119in Memphis · 23,464 residents59.12
  24. 2437046in College Grove · 7,310 residents59.03
  25. 2537014in Arrington · 3,227 residents58.77
  26. 2637064in Franklin · 67,513 residents58.75
  27. 2737902in Knoxville · 2,412 residents58.21
  28. 2837212in Nashville · 20,592 residents58.00
  29. 2937122in Mount Juliet · 68,492 residents57.31
  30. 3037216in Nashville · 19,038 residents57.12
  31. 3137174in Spring Hill · 53,900 residents57.08
  32. 3238002in Lakeland · 43,882 residents56.55
  33. 3338117in Memphis · 25,776 residents56.47
  34. 3437919in Knoxville · 31,754 residents56.41
  35. 3538103in Memphis · 14,534 residents56.28
  36. 3637932in Farragut · 25,424 residents56.23
  37. 3738018in Cordova · 38,527 residents56.19
  38. 3837363in Ooltewah · 42,093 residents55.90
  39. 3937128in Murfreesboro · 79,268 residents55.86
  40. 4038016in Cordova · 44,136 residents55.48
  41. 4138135in Bartlett · 30,317 residents55.09
  42. 4237060in Eagleville · 3,396 residents54.98
  43. 4337405in Chattanooga · 18,109 residents54.97
  44. 4437075in Hendersonville · 73,522 residents54.79
  45. 4537228in Nashville · 2,585 residents54.74
  46. 4637085in Lascassas · 5,853 residents54.72
  47. 4737129in Murfreesboro · 63,652 residents54.45
  48. 4838054in Millington · 102 residents54.45
  49. 4938028in Arlington · 7,992 residents54.18
  50. 5037043in Clarksville · 58,742 residents54.00
Open the full Tennessee ranking →One page, all 616 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Tennessee’s 627 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 616 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 Tennessee stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Tennessee'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 · 70th

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

Weakest domain

Mental Health · 13th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 13th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Healthcare Access70
Social Need / SDOH62
Chronic Disease Burden45
Disability41
Risk Behavior40
Climate / Disaster Risk40
Preventive Care39
Environmental Hazard35
Mental Health13

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