Ranked #464 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Whitfield County · Dalton 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 Dalton 30721 at 44, ranked #596 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Dalton scores 43
-2,244 in five years, -1,249 forecast
79,599 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
6 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 0.5 mi · 0 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
- Dalton 3072144#596
- Weakest ZIP area
- Dalton 3072041
- 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)
- 0 of 2
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 2
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 2
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Whitfield County: 70.0% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 137 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Dalton
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton 30721 | 52,477 | -984 | -1,727 | 16 | 0.5 mi | 192 | 44 | #596 | — |
| Dalton 30720 | 27,122 | -1,260 | +478 | 14 | 1.4 mi | 183 | 41 | #655 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 79,599 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 49.4%
- 39,305
- Hispanic or Latino
- 44.0%
- 35,048
- Black, not Hispanic
- 3.3%
- 2,648
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.7%
- 1,331
- Other, not Hispanic
- 1.6%
- 1,267
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 33.4%
- 9,354 of 27,977 households
- Below the poverty level
- 15.4%
- 12,084 of the 78,390 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 5.4%
- 2,120 of a labor force of 39,465
- High school or higher
- 72.3%
- of 51,586 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 17.7%
- of 51,586 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 35.1%
- 26,216 people aged 5 and over, 12,189 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 22.6%
- 17,961 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 63.0%
- 17,638 owned, 10,339 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $57,749 (Dalton 30721) to $65,620 (Dalton 30720)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 36.4 yrs (Dalton 30720) to 36.5 yrs (Dalton 30721)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $172,500 (Dalton 30721) to $225,600 (Dalton 30720)
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
- 35,048
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +526
- +1.5%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 44.0%
- Venezuelan origin
- 15
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 1
- Iglesia de Dios 24/7
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Dalton 3072066
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 29.8
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
- 1,474
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 211
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico12,553
- Guatemala1,918
- El Salvador850
- Cuba462
- Colombia341
- India214
- Dominican Republic193
- Korea175
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
6 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 Dalton
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Valley | Dalton 30721 | James Edward Harper III | (706) 259-8115 | |
| Cristo Roca De Mi Salvacion | Dalton 30721 | Carlos Humberto Veliz Pinto | (336) 423-2235 | |
| Dalton-CrossPointe Christian Centre | Dalton 30719 | Stanley Evan Lester | Website · (706) 278-2649 | |
| Dalton-Valley Brook | Dalton 30720 | France M Clayton Jr | (706) 279-3296 | |
| Iglesia de Dios 24/7 | Dalton 30721 | Arturo Soto P | (706) 280-0668 | |
| Luz y Vida | Dalton 30720 | Jose O Valenzuela O | (706) 581-5161 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Dalton is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Dalton — 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.