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Forest Park, Georgia

67Elevated priority

Ranked #151 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Clayton County · Atlanta metro · 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 Forest Park 30297 at 67, ranked #253 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
28,892
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+815
+2.9%
Forecast, next 5 years
+614
+2.1% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Forest Park scores 67

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

+815 in five years, +614 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?100 · weight 14%

28,892 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 4.8 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
Forest Park 3029767#253
Weakest ZIP area
Forest Park 3029767
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)
1,070

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

Clayton County: 45.7% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Non-denominational Christian Churches · 200 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Forest Park

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Forest Park 3029728,892+815+614104.8 mi1,07067#253—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 28,892 people who live in its ZIP areas.

Black, not Hispanic
52.4%
15,141
Hispanic or Latino
27.1%
7,817
White, not Hispanic
10.3%
2,972
Asian, not Hispanic
6.2%
1,790
Other, not Hispanic
4.1%
1,172

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
35.9%
3,760 of 10,473 households
Below the poverty level
19.9%
5,585 of the 28,012 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
6.7%
905 of a labor force of 13,588
High school or higher
75.3%
of 17,640 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
13.2%
of 17,640 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
25.9%
7,079 people aged 5 and over, 3,927 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
17.8%
5,139 residents
Owner-occupied homes
35.5%
3,716 owned, 6,757 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$45,975
Median age by ZIP area
31.0 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$121,400

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
7,817
Change, 2018 to 2023
-571
-6.8%
Share of everyone who lives here
27.1%
Venezuelan origin
39
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Forest Park 3029712
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
12.4

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
345
Moved in from abroad, past year
287

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico2,188
  • Vietnam1,149
  • El Salvador310
  • Guatemala272
  • Honduras179
  • Colombia148
  • Cuba136
  • Jamaica105
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New homes

  • Clayton County · 2,071 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments

    1-unit ×1122 · 2–4 ×12 · 5+ ×937

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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1 planned areas in adopted five-year plans fall in its ZIP areas:

  • mixed_use: 1 areas, 914 acres

Church of God churches in Forest Park

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

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