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Claxton, Georgia

59Moderate priority

Ranked #254 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Evans 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 Claxton 30417 at 59, ranked #385 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
11,167
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+390
+3.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
-29
-0.3% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
5,584 people each

Why Claxton scores 59

Growth — are people moving here?53 · weight 86%

+390 in five years, -29 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?92 · weight 14%

11,167 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.3 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
Claxton 3041759#385
Weakest ZIP area
Claxton 3041759
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
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
79

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

Evans County: 47.8% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 30 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Claxton

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Claxton 3041711,167+390-2922.3 mi7959#385—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 11,167 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
56.4%
6,295
Black, not Hispanic
26.4%
2,943
Hispanic or Latino
12.4%
1,380
Other, not Hispanic
4.6%
514
Asian, not Hispanic
0.3%
35

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
32.1%
1,292 of 4,021 households
Below the poverty level
18.2%
1,926 of the 10,589 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
6.0%
286 of a labor force of 4,753
High school or higher
82.8%
of 7,289 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
14.8%
of 7,289 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
12.4%
1,309 people aged 5 and over, 546 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
5.1%
565 residents
Owner-occupied homes
65.0%
2,615 owned, 1,406 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$54,239
Median age by ZIP area
37.0 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$142,800

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
1,380
Change, 2018 to 2023
+135
+10.8%
Share of everyone who lives here
12.4%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
1
Iglesia De Dios Tabernaculo Faro De Dios
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Claxton 3041750
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
49.9

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
60
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico520
  • Philippines28
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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.

Church of God churches in Claxton

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
ClaxtonClaxton 30417Eddie D Toole
Iglesia De Dios Tabernaculo Faro De DiosClaxton 30417—(912) 334-0310

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