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How Vermont's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026249 of 253 ZIP codes scored · 0.65M residents represented

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

Score snapshot

57.87Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
55.72Median scoremiddle of 249 scored ZIPs
69.61Highest score05465 · Jericho
43.39Lowest score05906 · Lunenburg
26.22Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#10State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
26%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.17M of 0.65M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.19MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs29% of the state
0.13MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs19% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Vermont's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 249
  1. 105465in Jericho · 5,735 residents69.61
  2. 205055in Norwich · 3,463 residents69.13
  3. 305445in Charlotte · 3,916 residents68.62
  4. 405403in South Burlington · 20,614 residents68.60
  5. 505495in Williston · 10,956 residents68.48
  6. 605477in Richmond · 4,454 residents68.11
  7. 705482in Shelburne · 7,969 residents67.82
  8. 805462in Huntington · 1,810 residents66.79
  9. 905494in Westford · 1,603 residents66.67
  10. 1005489in Underhill · 3,484 residents66.54
  11. 1105673in Waitsfield · 2,570 residents65.98
  12. 1205452in Essex Junction · 22,626 residents65.97
  13. 1305461in Hinesburg · 4,898 residents65.91
  14. 1405152in Peru · 448 residents65.18
  15. 1505071in South Woodstock · 130 residents64.75
  16. 1605408in Burlington · 10,019 residents64.68
  17. 1705602in Montpelier · 12,250 residents64.46
  18. 1805660in Moretown · 1,882 residents64.40
  19. 1905456in Ferrisburgh · 998 residents64.19
  20. 2005651in East Montpelier · 1,510 residents64.17
  21. 2105161in Weston · 676 residents64.02
  22. 2205486in South Hero · 1,500 residents64.01
  23. 2305340in Bondville · 745 residents63.81
  24. 2405677in Waterbury Center · 2,290 residents63.71
  25. 2505676in Waterbury · 5,032 residents63.53
  26. 2605043in East Thetford · 907 residents63.32
  27. 2705058in Post Mills · 128 residents63.32
  28. 2805091in Woodstock · 3,443 residents63.32
  29. 2905458in Grand Isle · 2,278 residents63.10
  30. 3005473in North Ferrisburgh · 1,423 residents63.01
  31. 3105672in Stowe · 5,285 residents62.90
  32. 3205454in Fairfax · 5,364 residents62.77
  33. 3305062in Reading · 705 residents62.76
  34. 3405037in Brownsville · 949 residents62.76
  35. 3505444in Cambridge · 1,752 residents62.75
  36. 3605075in Thetford Center · 1,438 residents62.50
  37. 3705753in Middlebury · 11,094 residents62.43
  38. 3805762in Pittsfield · 387 residents62.40
  39. 3905766in Ripton · 508 residents62.17
  40. 4005640in Adamant · 259 residents62.14
  41. 4105681in Woodbury · 119 residents62.12
  42. 4205404in Winooski · 8,293 residents61.93
  43. 4305737in Chittenden · 639 residents61.92
  44. 4405472in New Haven · 1,938 residents61.47
  45. 4505748in Hancock · 435 residents61.37
  46. 4605031in Barnard · 44 residents61.33
  47. 4705682in Worcester · 1,149 residents61.06
  48. 4805491in Vergennes · 5,767 residents61.06
  49. 4905059in Quechee · 510 residents60.99
  50. 5005648in Calais · 483 residents60.86
Open the full Vermont ranking →One page, all 249 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Vermont’s 253 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 249 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 Vermont stands, domain by domain

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

Risk Behavior · 86th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 86th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Mental Health · 36th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 36th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Risk Behavior86
Climate / Disaster Risk82
Disability73
Environmental Hazard72
Chronic Disease Burden71
Preventive Care61
Healthcare Access61
Social Need / SDOH47
Mental Health36

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