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Franklin, Georgia

60Moderate priority

Ranked #238 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Heard 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 Franklin 30217 at 60, ranked #370 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
9,702
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+558
+6.1%
Forecast, next 5 years
+1,856
+19.1% · official county projection
Church of God churches
3
3,234 people each

Why Franklin scores 60

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

+558 in five years, +1,856 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?91 · weight 14%

9,702 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

3 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.0 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
Franklin 3021760#370
Weakest ZIP area
Franklin 3021760
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)
84

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

Heard County: 46.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 32 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Franklin

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Franklin 302179,702+558+1,85631.0 mi8460#370—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 9,702 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
84.5%
8,198
Black, not Hispanic
8.2%
795
Other, not Hispanic
3.8%
367
Hispanic or Latino
2.6%
254
Asian, not Hispanic
0.9%
88

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
33.5%
1,219 of 3,640 households
Below the poverty level
18.5%
1,766 of the 9,532 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
4.1%
161 of a labor force of 3,962
High school or higher
85.6%
of 6,693 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
10.2%
of 6,693 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
0.8%
75 people aged 5 and over, 23 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
1.5%
143 residents
Owner-occupied homes
72.0%
2,620 owned, 1,020 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$58,512
Median age by ZIP area
41.7 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$170,500

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
254
Change, 2018 to 2023
+6
+2.4%
Share of everyone who lives here
2.6%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Franklin 3021723
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
23.2

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
31
Moved in from abroad, past year
29

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Vietnam55
  • Mexico21
  • Korea18
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

3 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 Franklin

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
FranklinFranklin 30217Noel Zachery ForresterWebsite · (706) 675-1658
Franklin-Heaven BoundFranklin 30217Debbie Buchanan Kendrick(706) 675-3224
High PointFranklin 30217Mark Bryan Tatum(678) 378-6619

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