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Climax, Georgia

21Low priority

Ranked #803 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Decatur 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 Climax 39834 at 21, ranked #1,036 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
2,020
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-475
-19.0%
Forecast, next 5 years
-456
-22.6% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Climax scores 21

Growth — are people moving here?13 · weight 86%

-475 in five years, -456 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?75 · weight 14%

2,020 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 5.6 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
Climax 3983421#1,036
Weakest ZIP area
Climax 3983421
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)
113

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 Climax

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Climax 398342,020-475-45635.6 mi11321#1,036—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 2,020 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
75.3%
1,521
Hispanic or Latino
15.1%
306
Black, not Hispanic
8.8%
177
Other, not Hispanic
0.6%
12
Asian, not Hispanic
0.2%
4

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
35.5%
225 of 633 households
Below the poverty level
19.8%
399 of the 2,020 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
1.2%
12 of a labor force of 993
High school or higher
87.5%
of 1,443 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
14.8%
of 1,443 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
3.8%
70 people aged 5 and over, 39 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
10.9%
221 residents
Owner-occupied homes
79.3%
502 owned, 131 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$47,434
Median age by ZIP area
41.3 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$150,000

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
306
Change, 2018 to 2023
+110
+56.1%
Share of everyone who lives here
15.1%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Climax 3983453
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
52.8

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
0
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Colombia190
  • Mexico27
All arrivals →

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

0 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 Climax

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No Church of God church is filed in any ZIP area of Climax.

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