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Hazlehurst, Georgia

33Low priority

Ranked #624 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Jeff Davis County · Small-town & rural Georgia · 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 Hazlehurst 31539 at 33, ranked #833 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
14,117
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-528
-3.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
-641
-4.5% · official county projection
Church of God churches
6
2,353 people each

Why Hazlehurst scores 33

Growth — are people moving here?24 · weight 86%

-528 in five years, -641 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?94 · weight 14%

14,117 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

6 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.1 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
Hazlehurst 3153933#833
Weakest ZIP area
Hazlehurst 3153933
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)
51

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

Jeff Davis County: 70.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 43 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Hazlehurst

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Hazlehurst 3153914,117-528-64191.1 mi5133#833—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 14,117 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
68.2%
9,632
Black, not Hispanic
14.3%
2,025
Hispanic or Latino
13.7%
1,930
Other, not Hispanic
3.6%
511
Asian, not Hispanic
0.1%
19

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
34.6%
1,763 of 5,095 households
Below the poverty level
28.3%
3,972 of the 14,057 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
5.1%
294 of a labor force of 5,818
High school or higher
77.1%
of 9,150 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
10.9%
of 9,150 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
10.7%
1,432 people aged 5 and over, 760 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
5.5%
776 residents
Owner-occupied homes
68.7%
3,499 owned, 1,596 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$38,321
Median age by ZIP area
41.2 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$108,400

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
1,930
Change, 2018 to 2023
+196
+11.3%
Share of everyone who lives here
13.7%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Hazlehurst 3153953
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
53.4

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
365
Moved in from abroad, past year
13

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico764
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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

6 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 Hazlehurst

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
BridgefordHazlehurst 31539Stephen Brent GriffinWebsite · (478) 365-0587
GrahamBaxley 31513Don Dixon
Hazlehurst Church of God IncHazlehurst 31539Hugh F Anderson JrWebsite · (912) 375-7774
Hazlehurst-Grace CommunityHazlehurst 31539Deirdre L GreerWebsite · (912) 375-5705
Liberty CommunityHazlehurst 31539Walter Wayne Crummey(912) 375-5765
Solid RockHazlehurst 31539Andrea Chrishawn Holmes(912) 240-9811

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