Ranked #362 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Lanier County · Valdosta 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 Lakeland 31635 at 52, ranked #498 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Lakeland scores 52
+376 in five years, -335 forecast
6,978 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.8 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
- Lakeland 3163552#498
- Weakest ZIP area
- Lakeland 3163552
- 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
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Lanier County: 31.5% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 16 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Lakeland
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland 31635 | 6,978 | +376 | -335 | 2 | 1.8 mi | 50 | 52 | #498 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 6,978 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 64.9%
- 4,530
- Black, not Hispanic
- 28.7%
- 2,004
- Hispanic or Latino
- 3.7%
- 261
- Other, not Hispanic
- 2.4%
- 164
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.3%
- 19
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 39.8%
- 992 of 2,495 households
- Below the poverty level
- 30.0%
- 2,021 of the 6,726 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 0.7%
- 21 of a labor force of 2,869
- High school or higher
- 90.7%
- of 4,565 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 18.7%
- of 4,565 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 2.8%
- 182 people aged 5 and over, 63 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 2.1%
- 150 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 68.8%
- 1,716 owned, 779 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $43,815
- Median age by ZIP area
- 35.2 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $168,900
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
- 261
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- -169
- -39.3%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 3.7%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Lakeland 316358
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 7.7
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
- 172
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 0
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Guatemala52
- Colombia42
- Philippines19
- Honduras11
- Cuba10
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
1 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 Lakeland
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refuge Church | Lakeland 31635 | Dennis Lee Rowland | (229) 474-2264 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Lakeland is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Lakeland — 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.