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Dahlonega, Georgia

67Elevated priority

Ranked #151 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Lumpkin County · Atlanta metro · 2 ZIP areas

The city score is the population-weighted average of its 2 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Dahlonega 30533 at 69, ranked #228 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
28,758
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+841
+3.0%
Forecast, next 5 years
+1,789
+6.2% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Dahlonega scores 67

Growth — are people moving here?62 · weight 86%

+841 in five years, +1,789 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?99 · weight 14%

28,758 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 11 mi · 2 of 2 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
Dahlonega 3053369#228
Weakest ZIP area
Dahlonega 3059726
Growth ZIP areas
0

Where the Church of God stands here

ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 2 scored.

Within 3 mi (5 km)
2 of 2
Within 6 mi (10 km)
2 of 2
Within 12 mi (20 km)
0 of 2
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
121–123

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

Lumpkin County: 25.9% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Catholic Church · 33 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Dahlonega

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Dahlonega 3053327,524+841+1,634311 mi12169#228—
Dahlonega 305971,234—+155311 mi12326#976—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 28,758 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
88.9%
25,574
Hispanic or Latino
5.2%
1,484
Other, not Hispanic
3.0%
871
Black, not Hispanic
1.8%
531
Asian, not Hispanic
1.0%
298

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
26.1%
2,521 of 9,651 households
Below the poverty level
17.0%
4,420 of the 26,075 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
6.1%
834 of a labor force of 13,593
High school or higher
88.1%
of 17,671 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
30.5%
of 17,671 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
4.5%
1,231 people aged 5 and over, 314 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
3.6%
1,025 residents
Owner-occupied homes
76.9%
7,421 owned, 2,230 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$70,417
Median age by ZIP area
from 19.7 yrs (Dahlonega 30597) to 37.6 yrs (Dahlonega 30533)
Median home value by ZIP area
$270,300

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
1,484
Change, 2018 to 2023
-25
-1.7%
Share of everyone who lives here
5.2%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Dahlonega 3053310
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
9.8

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
635
Moved in from abroad, past year
107

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico301
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)167
  • Japan167
  • Argentina62
  • China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan59
  • Germany42
  • Ukraine36
  • Barbados33
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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

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.

In North Georgia

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No adopted-plan polygons fall in its ZIP areas.

Church of God churches in Dahlonega

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

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