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Appling, Georgia

57Moderate priority

Ranked #287 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Columbia County · Augusta metro · 1 ZIP areas

The city score is the population-weighted average of its 1 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Appling 30802 at 57, ranked #419 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
6,375
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+228
+3.7%
Forecast, next 5 years
-381
-6.0% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Appling scores 57

Growth — are people moving here?52 · weight 86%

+228 in five years, -381 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?87 · weight 14%

6,375 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 13 mi · 1 of 1 ZIP areas with none within 6 mi (10 km). By the owner's ruling, how near a Church of God church is carries no weight in the score.

Strongest ZIP area
Appling 3080257#419
Weakest ZIP area
Appling 3080257
Growth ZIP areas
0

Where the Church of God stands here

ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 1 scored.

Within 3 mi (5 km)
1 of 1
Within 6 mi (10 km)
1 of 1
Within 12 mi (20 km)
1 of 1
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
107

The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.

Columbia County: 39.6% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 119 congregations

2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.

ZIP areas in Appling

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Appling 308026,375+228-381013 mi10757#419—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 6,375 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
74.5%
4,749
Black, not Hispanic
17.4%
1,110
Other, not Hispanic
4.8%
309
Hispanic or Latino
3.0%
190
Asian, not Hispanic
0.3%
17

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
34.0%
690 of 2,029 households
Below the poverty level
13.9%
852 of the 6,109 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
2.2%
60 of a labor force of 2,676
High school or higher
93.1%
of 4,741 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
25.1%
of 4,741 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
1.7%
106 people aged 5 and over, 58 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
1.3%
81 residents
Owner-occupied homes
86.3%
1,751 owned, 278 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$88,395
Median age by ZIP area
48.9 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$294,200

Sums are exact across the city’s ZIP areas. Medians cannot be summed, so each is shown as its range across the ZIP areas that publish one. ACS 2019–2023 five-year estimates by ZIP area. Medians are ZIP-level medians, not averages. An em dash means the Census Bureau publishes no estimate; it never means zero.

Futuros — the Hispanic picture

Hispanic residents
190
Change, 2018 to 2023
+143
+304.3%
Share of everyone who lives here
3.0%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Appling 3080255
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
54.7

No official Hispanic forecast exists below state level, so the Futuros score looks forward on the observed five-year shift.

Open the Futuros view →

Arrivals

Moved in from another state, past year
14
Moved in from abroad, past year
10

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Trinidad and Tobago28
  • Iraq26
  • Vietnam10
  • Mexico10
All arrivals →

New homes

  • Columbia County · 3,583 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments

    1-unit ×3448 · 2–4 ×104 · 5+ ×31

Building permits are published by county, so these are county figures, not the city’s.

Church health

0 Church of God churches are filed in its ZIP areas.

Every church that could be matched to a state-office report has filed something, or has a dated online presence.

Georgia has no attendance series yet — North Georgia has published two quarters — so no Georgia church can be marked shrinking.

Church of God churches in Appling

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
No Church of God church is filed in any ZIP area of Appling.

What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Appling is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Appling — the city everyone means, not the incorporated limits. The score is the population-weighted average of those ZIP areas’ planting scores (86% growth, 14% viability; how near a Church of God church is carries no weight); a plant goes in a ZIP area, and the ranking to plant on is the ZIP area’s own. Church of God counts are the churches filed in those ZIP areas; the rings on each ZIP area still count every church within reach, across city and county lines.