Ranked #172 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Walker County · Chattanooga 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 Chickamauga 30707 at 66, ranked #287 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Chickamauga scores 66
+891 in five years, -192 forecast
16,847 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
3 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.9 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
- Chickamauga 3070766#287
- Weakest ZIP area
- Chickamauga 3070766
- 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)
- 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.
Walker County: 54.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 126 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Chickamauga
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickamauga 30707 | 16,847 | +891 | -192 | 22 | 2.9 mi | 294 | 66 | #287 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 16,847 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 92.8%
- 15,637
- Black, not Hispanic
- 3.1%
- 530
- Other, not Hispanic
- 1.8%
- 311
- Hispanic or Latino
- 1.7%
- 290
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.5%
- 79
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 27.7%
- 1,766 of 6,378 households
- Below the poverty level
- 7.8%
- 1,305 of the 16,796 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 5.4%
- 487 of a labor force of 9,036
- High school or higher
- 86.7%
- of 11,463 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 24.9%
- of 11,463 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 1.4%
- 230 people aged 5 and over, 120 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 0.9%
- 145 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83.2%
- 5,309 owned, 1,069 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $71,538
- Median age by ZIP area
- 39.4 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $207,500
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
- 290
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +268
- +1218.2%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 1.7%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Chickamauga 3070760
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 60.2
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
- 204
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 101
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico45
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan37
- Japan34
- Morocco21
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
3 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 Chickamauga
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickamauga-Covenant Life Worship Center | Chickamauga 30707 | Kris Alan Taivalkoski | Website · (770) 448-9300 | |
| Cooper Heights | Chickamauga 30707 | Jackie Lee Sexton | (706) 931-2201 | |
| Kensington | Chickamauga 30707 | Evelyn Jane Galloway | (423) 710-6664 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Chickamauga is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Chickamauga — 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.