Ranked #249 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Decatur County · Small-town & rural Georgia · 2 ZIP areas
The city score is the population-weighted average of its 2 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Bainbridge 39817 at 61, ranked #344 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Bainbridge scores 59
+2,170 in five years, +2,195 forecast
23,132 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.5 mi · 0 of 2 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
- Bainbridge 3981761#344
- Weakest ZIP area
- Bainbridge 3981956
- Growth ZIP areas
- 0
Where the Church of God stands here
ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 2 scored.
- Within 3 mi (5 km)
- 0 of 2
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 2
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 2
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Decatur County: 54.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 83 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Bainbridge
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge 39817 | 11,561 | +1,586 | +2,841 | 2 | 1.5 mi | 100 | 61 | #344 | — |
| Bainbridge 39819 | 11,571 | +584 | -646 | 3 | 2.6 mi | 108 | 56 | #434 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 23,132 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- Black, not Hispanic
- 45.9%
- 10,626
- White, not Hispanic
- 45.4%
- 10,503
- Hispanic or Latino
- 5.9%
- 1,371
- Other, not Hispanic
- 1.9%
- 428
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.9%
- 204
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 28.5%
- 2,425 of 8,520 households
- Below the poverty level
- 26.2%
- 5,784 of the 22,113 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 8.1%
- 736 of a labor force of 9,036
- High school or higher
- 82.6%
- of 15,227 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 15.2%
- of 15,227 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 5.4%
- 1,150 people aged 5 and over, 589 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 3.6%
- 828 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 58.9%
- 5,016 owned, 3,504 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $42,654 (Bainbridge 39819) to $50,841 (Bainbridge 39817)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 34.7 yrs (Bainbridge 39817) to 40.3 yrs (Bainbridge 39819)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $145,700 (Bainbridge 39817) to $168,500 (Bainbridge 39819)
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
- 1,371
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +285
- +26.2%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 5.9%
- Venezuelan origin
- 33
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Bainbridge 3981764
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 31.7
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
- 385
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 32
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico455
- India102
- Argentina97
- Guatemala61
- Philippines42
- Ethiopia22
- France15
- United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)12
New homes
No county of this city reached 2,000 permitted homes over 2023–25, the threshold the map draws.
Building permits are published by county, so these are county figures, not the city’s.
Church health
2 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 Bainbridge
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge | Bainbridge 39818 | Ryan D Carnes | (229) 246-2857 | |
| Covenant of Hope Church of God | Bainbridge 39817 | Daniel Wayne Castor | (912) 571-2820 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Bainbridge is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Bainbridge — 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.