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Fort Valley, Georgia

61Moderate priority

Ranked #220 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Peach County · Warner Robins 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 Fort Valley 31030 at 61, ranked #348 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
17,987
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+286
+1.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
+277
+1.5% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Fort Valley scores 61

Growth — are people moving here?55 · weight 86%

+286 in five years, +277 forecast

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

17,987 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 7.2 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
Fort Valley 3103061#348
Weakest ZIP area
Fort Valley 3103061
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)
0 of 1
Other places of worship within 12 mi (20 km)
118

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

Peach County: 45.6% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body United Methodist Church · 45 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Fort Valley

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Fort Valley 3103017,987+286+27737.2 mi11861#348—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 17,987 people who live in its ZIP areas.

Black, not Hispanic
49.4%
8,878
White, not Hispanic
34.8%
6,253
Hispanic or Latino
12.4%
2,229
Other, not Hispanic
3.3%
599
Asian, not Hispanic
0.2%
28

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
31.4%
1,945 of 6,195 households
Below the poverty level
23.7%
3,907 of the 16,478 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
5.9%
478 of a labor force of 8,081
High school or higher
83.2%
of 11,047 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
19.8%
of 11,047 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
8.4%
1,419 people aged 5 and over, 756 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
6.6%
1,185 residents
Owner-occupied homes
63.7%
3,945 owned, 2,250 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$58,141
Median age by ZIP area
36.0 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$125,000

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
2,229
Change, 2018 to 2023
+500
+28.9%
Share of everyone who lives here
12.4%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Fort Valley 3103063
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
63.4

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
336
Moved in from abroad, past year
101

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico899
  • Guatemala67
  • Canada57
  • Belize40
  • Uganda33
  • Colombia15
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)14
  • El Salvador14
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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 Fort Valley

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

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