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Ranger, Georgia

31Low priority

Ranked #675 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Gordon 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 Ranger 30734 at 31, ranked #893 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
2,960
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-819
-21.7%
Forecast, next 5 years
-419
-14.2% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
1,480 people each

Why Ranger scores 31

Growth — are people moving here?23 · weight 86%

-819 in five years, -419 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?79 · weight 14%

2,960 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.0 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
Ranger 3073431#893
Weakest ZIP area
Ranger 3073431
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)
100

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

Gordon County: 56.8% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 92 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Ranger

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Ranger 307342,960-819-419112.0 mi10031#893—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 2,960 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
98.0%
2,901
Other, not Hispanic
1.4%
42
Hispanic or Latino
0.5%
16
Black, not Hispanic
0.0%
1

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
28.4%
314 of 1,105 households
Below the poverty level
21.4%
625 of the 2,920 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
3.9%
55 of a labor force of 1,405
High school or higher
75.5%
of 2,081 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
18.0%
of 2,081 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
0.9%
25 people aged 5 and over, 10 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
0.9%
27 residents
Owner-occupied homes
80.6%
891 owned, 214 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$58,702
Median age by ZIP area
43.9 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$304,600

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
16
Change, 2018 to 2023
+16
Share of everyone who lives here
0.5%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Ranger 3073426
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
26.1

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

Moved in from another state, past year
18
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)23
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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

2 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

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No adopted-plan polygons fall in its ZIP areas.

Church of God churches in Ranger

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
FairviewRanger 30734Terry Dwight JonesWebsite
LudvilleRanger 30734—(706) 692-9450

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