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Eastman, Georgia

13Low priority

Ranked #855 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Dodge 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 Eastman 31023 at 13, ranked #1,105 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
14,257
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-19
-0.1%
Forecast, next 5 years
-299
-2.1% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
7,129 people each

Why Eastman scores 13

Growth — are people moving here?0 · weight 86%

-19 in five years, -299 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?95 · weight 14%

14,257 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 0.4 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
Eastman 3102313#1,105
Weakest ZIP area
Eastman 3102313
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)
73

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

Dodge County: 65.8% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 82 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Eastman

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Eastman 3102314,257-19-29920.4 mi7313#1,105—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 14,257 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
69.2%
9,867
Black, not Hispanic
24.8%
3,530
Hispanic or Latino
3.8%
546
Other, not Hispanic
2.2%
311
Asian, not Hispanic
0.0%
3

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
30.9%
1,577 of 5,100 households
Below the poverty level
24.0%
3,304 of the 13,761 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
4.0%
230 of a labor force of 5,711
High school or higher
87.5%
of 9,888 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
19.0%
of 9,888 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
1.7%
232 people aged 5 and over, 74 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
1.4%
203 residents
Owner-occupied homes
64.9%
3,310 owned, 1,790 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$47,558
Median age by ZIP area
41.8 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$115,500

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
546
Change, 2018 to 2023
-20
-3.5%
Share of everyone who lives here
3.8%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Eastman 310239
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
8.7

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
40
Moved in from abroad, past year
17

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico91
  • Dominican Republic41
  • Germany24
  • Cuba16
  • Nicaragua14
  • Canada10
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

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 Eastman

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
James CommunityEastman 31023Corine W Edmondson(478) 374-5342
Sunset Family Worship CenterEastman 31023Lester McCloudWebsite · (478) 374-5170

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