Ranked #47 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Cherokee County · Atlanta 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 Ball Ground 30107 at 78, ranked #78 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Ball Ground scores 78
+3,429 in five years, +4,224 forecast
18,035 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.6 mi · 0 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
- Ball Ground 3010778#78
- Weakest ZIP area
- Ball Ground 3010778
- Growth ZIP areas
- 1
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)
- 0 of 1
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 1
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 1
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Cherokee County: 44.7% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 176 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Ball Ground
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ball Ground 30107growth corridor | 18,035 | +3,429 | +4,224 | 6 | 2.6 mi | 145 | 78 | #78 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 18,035 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 90.2%
- 16,259
- Hispanic or Latino
- 4.1%
- 739
- Other, not Hispanic
- 2.9%
- 527
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.5%
- 271
- Black, not Hispanic
- 1.3%
- 239
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 37.4%
- 2,348 of 6,280 households
- Below the poverty level
- 7.0%
- 1,253 of the 17,999 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 4.3%
- 410 of a labor force of 9,605
- High school or higher
- 92.5%
- of 12,462 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 31.2%
- of 12,462 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 2.5%
- 428 people aged 5 and over, 104 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 3.7%
- 660 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88.0%
- 5,524 owned, 756 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $105,561
- Median age by ZIP area
- 40.4 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $364,300
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
- 739
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +480
- +185.3%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 4.1%
- Venezuelan origin
- 63
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Ball Ground 3010766
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 66.0
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
- 467
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 32
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan113
- Bosnia and Herzegovina103
- Mexico76
- Peru65
- Colombia63
- Guatemala46
- Jordan26
- Thailand25
New homes
- Cherokee County · 6,415 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments
1-unit ×5483 · 2–4 ×56 · 5+ ×876
Building permits are published by county, so these are county figures, not the city’s.
Church health
1 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.
In North Georgia
Open the North Georgia view →1 planned areas in adopted five-year plans fall in its ZIP areas:
- mixed_use: 1 areas, 750 acres
Church of God churches in Ball Ground
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ball Ground-Freedom's Light | Ball Ground 30107 | Jeffrey E Farster | Website · (404) 580-2726 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Ball Ground is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Ball Ground — 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.