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Ringgold, Georgia

71Elevated priority

Ranked #117 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Catoosa County · Chattanooga 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 Ringgold 30736 at 71, ranked #205 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
44,134
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+985
+2.3%
Forecast, next 5 years
+1,629
+3.7% · official county projection
Church of God churches
3
14,711 people each

Why Ringgold scores 71

Growth — are people moving here?66 · weight 86%

+985 in five years, +1,629 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?100 · weight 14%

44,134 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

3 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.3 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
Ringgold 3073671#205
Weakest ZIP area
Ringgold 3073671
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)
446

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

Catoosa County: 36.1% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 75 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Ringgold

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Ringgold 3073644,134+985+1,629311.3 mi44671#205—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 44,134 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
89.2%
39,381
Other, not Hispanic
4.5%
1,992
Hispanic or Latino
2.9%
1,274
Black, not Hispanic
2.1%
907
Asian, not Hispanic
1.3%
580

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
32.9%
5,346 of 16,232 households
Below the poverty level
6.1%
2,663 of the 43,776 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
2.7%
619 of a labor force of 22,531
High school or higher
91.3%
of 30,275 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
26.7%
of 30,275 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
1.6%
671 people aged 5 and over, 245 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
2.0%
895 residents
Owner-occupied homes
84.3%
13,676 owned, 2,556 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$83,896
Median age by ZIP area
41.4 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$233,600

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
1,274
Change, 2018 to 2023
-188
-12.9%
Share of everyone who lives here
2.9%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Ringgold 3073610
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
9.9

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
1,652
Moved in from abroad, past year
17

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Russia198
  • Trinidad and Tobago108
  • Mexico73
  • Korea68
  • China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan64
  • Laos58
  • Germany50
  • India44
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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

3 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 Ringgold

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
BoyntonRinggold 30736Steve Herbert SmithWebsite · (706) 937-6300
Indian SpringsRinggold 30736William Alexander Lawhon(706) 937-3599
RinggoldRinggold 30736Alton Carroll Allen(706) 965-2056

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