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How Wisconsin's ZIP codes measure up on health

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

Data release 2026763 of 769 ZIP codes scored · 5.9M residents represented

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

Score snapshot

55.05Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.82Median scoremiddle of 763 scored ZIPs
71.05Highest score53717 · Madison
23.53Lowest score53206 · Milwaukee
47.52Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#18State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
40%Residents in below-average ZIPs2.3M of 5.9M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.78MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs13% of the state
0.52MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs9% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Wisconsin's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 763
  1. 153717in Madison · 13,052 residents71.05
  2. 253593in Verona · 31,081 residents70.49
  3. 353097in Mequon · 7,683 residents68.95
  4. 453719in Madison · 34,115 residents68.76
  5. 553217in River Hills · 29,957 residents68.67
  6. 653562in Middleton · 29,790 residents68.41
  7. 753005in Brookfield · 21,675 residents68.07
  8. 853705in Madison · 25,017 residents67.65
  9. 953122in Elm Grove · 6,508 residents67.45
  10. 1053092in Mequon · 20,886 residents67.26
  11. 1153018in Delafield · 8,201 residents66.96
  12. 1253045in Brookfield · 23,329 residents66.86
  13. 1353597in Waunakee · 21,426 residents66.57
  14. 1453058in Nashotah · 3,405 residents66.34
  15. 1553527in Cottage Grove · 11,924 residents66.15
  16. 1653183in Wales · 3,111 residents65.97
  17. 1753711in Fitchburg · 51,279 residents65.78
  18. 1853044in Kohler · 2,326 residents65.77
  19. 1953718in Madison · 18,989 residents65.34
  20. 2053012in Cedarburg · 19,183 residents65.30
  21. 2153153in North Prairie · 2,548 residents65.16
  22. 2253528in Cross Plains · 6,263 residents65.02
  23. 2353572in Mount Horeb · 10,385 residents64.93
  24. 2453125in Fontana-on-Geneva Lake · 1,898 residents64.67
  25. 2554173in Suamico · 3,403 residents64.66
  26. 2653558in McFarland · 13,164 residents64.65
  27. 2753590in Sun Prairie · 45,602 residents64.60
  28. 2853213in Wauwatosa · 26,905 residents64.54
  29. 2953151in New Berlin · 32,824 residents64.37
  30. 3053029in Hartland · 21,778 residents64.18
  31. 3153103in Big Bend · 3,762 residents64.01
  32. 3253575in Oregon · 18,204 residents63.95
  33. 3353024in Grafton · 18,982 residents63.90
  34. 3454210in Ellison Bay · 942 residents63.76
  35. 3553069in Okauchee · 671 residents63.67
  36. 3653226in Wauwatosa · 18,908 residents63.56
  37. 3753150in Muskego · 26,259 residents63.52
  38. 3853555in Lodi · 8,933 residents63.50
  39. 3953089in Sussex · 20,588 residents63.43
  40. 4054946in King · 401 residents63.36
  41. 4153072in Pewaukee · 26,200 residents63.31
  42. 4253076in Richfield · 3,109 residents63.19
  43. 4354246in Washington Island · 803 residents63.14
  44. 4453149in Mukwonago · 19,614 residents63.11
  45. 4553033in Hubertus · 6,286 residents63.08
  46. 4654913in Appleton · 25,147 residents63.07
  47. 4753529in Dane · 2,611 residents62.93
  48. 4853118in Dousman · 7,554 residents62.92
  49. 4953532in Deforest · 16,514 residents62.91
  50. 5053017in Colgate · 5,458 residents62.83
Open the full Wisconsin ranking →One page, all 763 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Wisconsin’s 769 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 763 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 Wisconsin stands, domain by domain

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

Climate / Disaster Risk · 71st

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 71st percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 33rd

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 33rd percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Climate / Disaster Risk71
Preventive Care67
Social Need / SDOH66
Healthcare Access65
Disability65
Chronic Disease Burden65
Mental Health56
Risk Behavior46
Environmental Hazard33

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