Ranked #401 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Gilmer County · Small-town & rural Georgia · 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 Ellijay 30536 at 67, ranked #265 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Ellijay scores 47
+1,809 in five years, +1,819 forecast
29,821 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 8.7 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
- Ellijay 3053667#265
- Weakest ZIP area
- Ellijay 3054038
- 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
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Gilmer County: 38.0% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 42 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Ellijay
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellijay 30536 | 9,676 | +1,833 | +1,220 | 2 | 8.7 mi | 85 | 67 | #265 | — |
| Ellijay 30540 | 20,145 | -24 | +599 | 2 | 9.2 mi | 89 | 38 | #723 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 29,821 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 84.0%
- 25,050
- Hispanic or Latino
- 12.5%
- 3,738
- Other, not Hispanic
- 2.6%
- 784
- Black, not Hispanic
- 0.4%
- 133
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.4%
- 116
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 25.6%
- 2,981 of 11,653 households
- Below the poverty level
- 14.5%
- 4,283 of the 29,556 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 1.7%
- 216 of a labor force of 13,044
- High school or higher
- 86.3%
- of 22,183 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 22.6%
- of 22,183 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 7.1%
- 2,017 people aged 5 and over, 572 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 5.0%
- 1,502 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79.9%
- 9,311 owned, 2,342 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $73,252 (Ellijay 30536) to $73,771 (Ellijay 30540)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 45.7 yrs (Ellijay 30536) to 50.7 yrs (Ellijay 30540)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $267,600 (Ellijay 30540) to $301,900 (Ellijay 30536)
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
- 3,738
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +329
- +9.7%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 12.5%
- Venezuelan origin
- 13
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Ellijay 3053672
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 31.3
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
- 809
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 15
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico515
- Guatemala258
- Colombia120
- United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)84
- Germany76
- Cambodia68
- Venezuela68
- Brazil41
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 Ellijay
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Church of God church is filed in any ZIP area of Ellijay. |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Ellijay is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Ellijay — 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.