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Portal, Georgia

51Low priority

Ranked #375 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Bulloch 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 Portal 30450 at 51, ranked #510 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
2,337
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+145
+6.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
+205
+8.8% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
2,337 people each

Why Portal scores 51

Growth — are people moving here?46 · weight 86%

+145 in five years, +205 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?77 · weight 14%

2,337 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 0.7 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
Portal 3045051#510
Weakest ZIP area
Portal 3045051
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)
96

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

Bulloch County: 34.4% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 97 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Portal

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Portal 304502,337+145+20550.7 mi9651#510—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 2,337 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
66.9%
1,564
Black, not Hispanic
24.3%
569
Other, not Hispanic
8.0%
186
Hispanic or Latino
0.8%
18

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
42.7%
358 of 839 households
Below the poverty level
22.9%
536 of the 2,337 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
9.5%
102 of a labor force of 1,071
High school or higher
74.4%
of 1,546 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
19.0%
of 1,546 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
0.7%
16 people aged 5 and over, 7 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
0.7%
16 residents
Owner-occupied homes
67.6%
567 owned, 272 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$57,212
Median age by ZIP area
43.1 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$112,200

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
18
Change, 2018 to 2023
+18
Share of everyone who lives here
0.8%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Portal 3045027
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
27.1

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

No arrivals data is published for its ZIP areas.

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New homes

  • Bulloch County · 3,071 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments

    1-unit ×2165 · 2–4 ×266 · 5+ ×640

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 Portal

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
AaronPortal 30450Roy Jarriel(912) 865-2879

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