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Forsyth, Georgia

72Elevated priority

Ranked #98 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Monroe County · Macon 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 Forsyth 31029 at 72, ranked #179 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
18,311
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+1,852
+11.3%
Forecast, next 5 years
+3,764
+20.6% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Forsyth scores 72

Growth — are people moving here?68 · weight 86%

+1,852 in five years, +3,764 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?97 · weight 14%

18,311 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 13 mi · 1 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
Forsyth 3102972#179
Weakest ZIP area
Forsyth 3102972
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)
1 of 1
Within 12 mi (20 km)
1 of 1
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
101

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

Monroe County: 26.9% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 55 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Forsyth

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Forsyth 3102918,311+1,852+3,764013 mi10172#179—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 18,311 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
72.6%
13,299
Black, not Hispanic
21.7%
3,965
Hispanic or Latino
3.1%
575
Asian, not Hispanic
1.7%
313
Other, not Hispanic
0.9%
159

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
38.2%
2,442 of 6,399 households
Below the poverty level
14.9%
2,563 of the 17,241 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
5.2%
455 of a labor force of 8,757
High school or higher
90.9%
of 12,934 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
25.7%
of 12,934 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
2.5%
439 people aged 5 and over, 112 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
1.8%
322 residents
Owner-occupied homes
78.2%
5,002 owned, 1,397 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$79,529
Median age by ZIP area
41.1 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$226,300

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
575
Change, 2018 to 2023
+172
+42.7%
Share of everyone who lives here
3.1%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Forsyth 3102955
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
55.2

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
110
Moved in from abroad, past year
11

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan143
  • Mexico60
  • Canada41
  • Cuba31
  • Netherlands14
  • Haiti12
  • Germany11
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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.

Church of God churches in Forsyth

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

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