Ranked #14 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Jackson 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 Jefferson 30549 at 85, ranked #26 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Jefferson scores 85
+5,751 in five years, +4,717 forecast
30,643 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 10 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
- Jefferson 3054985#26
- Weakest ZIP area
- Jefferson 3054985
- Growth ZIP areas
- 1
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
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Jackson County: 37.2% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 102 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Jefferson
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson 30549growth corridor | 30,643 | +5,751 | +4,717 | 2 | 10 mi | 153 | 85 | #26 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 30,643 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 79.5%
- 24,351
- Black, not Hispanic
- 8.8%
- 2,687
- Hispanic or Latino
- 6.5%
- 1,990
- Other, not Hispanic
- 3.2%
- 979
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 2.1%
- 636
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 38.6%
- 3,845 of 9,950 households
- Below the poverty level
- 9.9%
- 3,005 of the 30,264 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 3.7%
- 556 of a labor force of 15,002
- High school or higher
- 89.6%
- of 20,111 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 32.0%
- of 20,111 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 4.2%
- 1,223 people aged 5 and over, 576 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 5.5%
- 1,679 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83.4%
- 8,303 owned, 1,647 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $88,951
- Median age by ZIP area
- 38.3 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $325,500
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
- 1,990
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +561
- +39.3%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 6.5%
- Venezuelan origin
- 5
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Jefferson 3054966
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 65.6
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
- 235
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 28
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Jamaica312
- Mexico288
- Colombia279
- Laos183
- Germany80
- Peru77
- Cuba61
- Canada56
New homes
- Jackson County · 6,001 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments
1-unit ×5599 · 2–4 ×19 · 5+ ×383
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
Open the North Georgia view →4 planned areas in adopted five-year plans fall in its ZIP areas:
- employment: 10 areas, 4,509 acres
- residential_growth: 23 areas, 15,192 acres
- conservation: 23 areas, 31,680 acres
- mixed_use: 1 areas, 125 acres
Church of God churches in Jefferson
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Church of God church is filed in any ZIP area of Jefferson. |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Jefferson is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Jefferson — 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.