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How Texas's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 20261,868 of 1,924 ZIP codes scored · 30.0M residents represented

Score snapshot

50.03Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
45.30Median scoremiddle of 1,868 scored ZIPs
71.43Highest score78746 · Austin
19.83Lowest score78829 · Batesville
51.60Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#38State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
62%Residents in below-average ZIPs18.6M of 30.0M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
1.6MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs5% of the state
0.61MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs2% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

Texas's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 1,868
  1. 178746in Austin · 28,256 residents71.43
  2. 275063in Irving · 45,849 residents70.63
  3. 378739in Austin · 20,659 residents70.53
  4. 478733in Austin · 9,029 residents70.14
  5. 575024in Plano · 45,652 residents69.62
  6. 677005in West University Place · 28,874 residents69.48
  7. 778738in Bee Cave · 31,019 residents69.34
  8. 875225in Dallas · 22,237 residents69.31
  9. 977401in Bellaire · 17,213 residents69.26
  10. 1078703in Austin · 23,483 residents69.13
  11. 1177479in Sugar Land · 92,221 residents68.88
  12. 1277098in Houston · 17,210 residents68.85
  13. 1375205in Highland Park · 26,572 residents68.81
  14. 1475039in Irving · 24,164 residents68.73
  15. 1578731in Austin · 27,507 residents68.67
  16. 1678759in Austin · 43,182 residents68.62
  17. 1775251in Dallas · 3,525 residents68.55
  18. 1876092in Southlake · 31,520 residents68.27
  19. 1975035in Frisco · 89,682 residents68.09
  20. 2078717in Austin · 37,262 residents68.08
  21. 2177027in Houston · 20,317 residents67.80
  22. 2278730in Austin · 9,142 residents67.70
  23. 2375093in Plano · 47,954 residents67.69
  24. 2477024in Houston · 38,288 residents67.46
  25. 2575013in Allen · 49,796 residents67.41
  26. 2678750in Austin · 29,277 residents67.25
  27. 2777094in Houston · 10,395 residents67.13
  28. 2875019in Coppell · 44,917 residents66.97
  29. 2978732in Austin · 21,087 residents66.92
  30. 3077056in Houston · 22,877 residents66.87
  31. 3175025in Plano · 53,202 residents66.87
  32. 3277030in Houston · 13,380 residents66.86
  33. 3375082in Richardson · 29,618 residents66.80
  34. 3477007in Houston · 47,808 residents66.78
  35. 3576034in Colleyville · 26,103 residents66.75
  36. 3678701in Austin · 11,824 residents66.59
  37. 3777006in Houston · 24,892 residents66.49
  38. 3878749in Austin · 34,562 residents66.47
  39. 3978735in Austin · 20,996 residents66.45
  40. 4077494in Katy · 140,157 residents66.25
  41. 4178727in Austin · 29,958 residents66.01
  42. 4275202in Dallas · 2,892 residents65.97
  43. 4377478in Sugar Land · 23,182 residents65.90
  44. 4475206in Dallas · 38,909 residents65.89
  45. 4577382in Spring · 38,986 residents65.83
  46. 4677441in Fulshear · 41,324 residents65.79
  47. 4778726in Austin · 14,506 residents65.76
  48. 4878843in Laughlin Afb · 307 residents65.74
  49. 4977019in Houston · 23,708 residents65.69
  50. 5075230in Dallas · 27,763 residents65.56
Open the full Texas ranking →One page, all 1,868 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Texas’s 1,924 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 1,868 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 Texas stands, domain by domain

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

Chronic Disease Burden · 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 · 10th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 10th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Chronic Disease Burden73
Healthcare Access71
Social Need / SDOH60
Mental Health56
Environmental Hazard53
Disability53
Risk Behavior40
Preventive Care19
Climate / Disaster Risk10

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