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Clarkesville, Georgia

69Elevated priority

Ranked #136 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Habersham County · Small-town & rural Georgia · 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 Clarkesville 30523 at 69, ranked #233 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
13,777
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+1,547
+12.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
+3,022
+21.9% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
6,889 people each

Why Clarkesville scores 69

Growth — are people moving here?65 · weight 86%

+1,547 in five years, +3,022 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?94 · weight 14%

13,777 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 4.4 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
Clarkesville 3052369#233
Weakest ZIP area
Clarkesville 3052369
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)
0 of 1
Within 12 mi (20 km)
0 of 1
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
111

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

Habersham County: 52.2% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 79 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Clarkesville

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Clarkesville 3052313,777+1,547+3,02264.4 mi11169#233—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 13,777 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
88.2%
12,148
Hispanic or Latino
5.9%
808
Other, not Hispanic
2.5%
341
Black, not Hispanic
1.9%
259
Asian, not Hispanic
1.6%
221

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
27.3%
1,374 of 5,035 households
Below the poverty level
8.4%
1,132 of the 13,515 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
3.1%
192 of a labor force of 6,119
High school or higher
90.6%
of 10,201 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
31.5%
of 10,201 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
4.7%
624 people aged 5 and over, 133 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
4.9%
679 residents
Owner-occupied homes
83.9%
4,224 owned, 811 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$76,780
Median age by ZIP area
49.8 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$244,200

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
808
Change, 2018 to 2023
+574
+245.3%
Share of everyone who lives here
5.9%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Clarkesville 3052368
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
67.5

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

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Arrivals

Moved in from another state, past year
348
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Colombia209
  • Mexico140
  • Philippines92
  • Vietnam49
  • Canada47
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)44
  • Germany19
  • Laos15
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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.

In North Georgia

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No adopted-plan polygons fall in its ZIP areas.

Church of God churches in Clarkesville

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
ClarkesvilleClarkesville 30523Erek Clayton Beavers(706) 754-6967
TurnervilleTurnerville 30523Robert Warren Lawson(706) 499-2560

What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Clarkesville is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Clarkesville — 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.