Ranked #430 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Bibb County · Macon metro · 10 ZIP areas, 9 scored
The city score is the population-weighted average of its 9 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Macon 31204 at 68, ranked #248 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Macon scores 45
+2,561 in five years, +3,762 forecast
166,261 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
8 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 0.1 mi · 0 of 9 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
- Macon 3120468#248
- Weakest ZIP area
- Macon 3120128
- Growth ZIP areas
- 1
Where the Church of God stands here
ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 9 scored.
- Within 3 mi (5 km)
- 2 of 9
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 9
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 9
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Bibb County: 58.2% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 234 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Macon
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macon 31204growth corridor | 32,730 | +3,044 | +2,938 | 8 | 2.2 mi | 175 | 68 | #248 | — |
| Macon 31220 | 16,202 | +1,698 | +841 | 7 | 6.2 mi | 170 | 64 | #313 | — |
| Macon 31207 | 1,591 | +484 | +271 | 8 | 2.9 mi | 173 | 50 | #517 | — |
| Macon 31217 | 16,923 | +188 | +85 | 7 | 2.6 mi | 159 | 50 | #518 | — |
| Macon 31210 | 33,889 | -416 | +892 | 7 | 2.9 mi | 175 | 36 | #768 | — |
| Macon 31206 | 25,250 | -1,276 | -1,981 | 9 | 1.6 mi | 192 | 34 | #820 | — |
| Macon 31211 | 15,460 | -28 | +2,064 | 7 | 0.1 mi | 163 | 33 | #844 | — |
| Macon 31216 | 16,354 | -892 | -2,003 | 9 | 1.5 mi | 216 | 32 | #875 | — |
| Macon 31201 | 7,862 | -241 | +655 | 8 | 3.2 mi | 176 | 28 | #948 | — |
Macon 31213 carries no ACS population estimate — drawn on the map, not scored.
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 166,261 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- Black, not Hispanic
- 52.8%
- 87,853
- White, not Hispanic
- 36.7%
- 61,091
- Hispanic or Latino
- 4.4%
- 7,236
- Other, not Hispanic
- 4.1%
- 6,896
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.9%
- 3,185
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 29.4%
- 18,699 of 63,545 households
- Below the poverty level
- 24.5%
- 39,243 of the 159,939 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 7.3%
- 5,398 of a labor force of 74,182
- High school or higher
- 87.4%
- of 109,930 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 25.6%
- of 109,930 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 3.0%
- 4,647 people aged 5 and over, 1,779 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 3.5%
- 5,883 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 53.8%
- 34,194 owned, 29,351 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $22,936 (Macon 31201) to $83,265 (Macon 31220)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 20.0 yrs (Macon 31207) to 43.4 yrs (Macon 31216)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $84,700 (Macon 31206) to $259,600 (Macon 31210)
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
- 7,236
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +2,029
- +39.0%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 4.4%
- Venezuelan origin
- 350
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Macon 3120673
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 59.7
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
- 3,567
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 427
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico1,128
- India589
- Korea519
- Venezuela349
- El Salvador308
- Pakistan305
- Vietnam202
- Nigeria190
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
8 Church of God churches are filed in its ZIP areas.
1 listed but silent — filed nothing with the state office, and nothing found online either way. A phone call, not a finding.
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 Macon
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Connection | Macon 31210 | — | Website · (478) 471-9104 | |
| Macon-Bloomfield | Macon 31206 | — | (478) 297-2019 | |
| Macon-Cochran Field | Macon 31216 | — | (478) 955-4273 | silent |
| Macon-Daystar | Macon 31210 | William Robbie Shephard | Website · (478) 960-6268 | |
| Macon-Ekklesia Christian Worship Ctr | Macon 31217 | — | (478) 258-0118 | |
| Macon-Gateway Fellowship | Macon 31216 | Jeremy D Singletary | Website · (478) 788-4400 | |
| Real Life | Macon 31211 | William L Turner Jr | Website · (478) 246-0344 | |
| Victory Temple | Macon 31211 | — |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Macon is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Macon — 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.