Ranked #493 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Tift County · Small-town & rural Georgia · 2 ZIP areas
The city score is the population-weighted average of its 2 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Tifton 31793 at 57, ranked #422 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Tifton scores 41
+513 in five years, +1,229 forecast
37,461 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
5 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.7 mi · 0 of 2 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
- Tifton 3179357#422
- Weakest ZIP area
- Tifton 3179435
- Growth ZIP areas
- 0
Where the Church of God stands here
ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 2 scored.
- Within 3 mi (5 km)
- 0 of 2
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 2
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 2
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Tift County: 55.9% 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 Tifton
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tifton 31793 | 10,276 | +636 | +2,615 | 8 | 1.7 mi | 104 | 57 | #422 | — |
| Tifton 31794 | 27,185 | -123 | -1,386 | 8 | 1.7 mi | 93 | 35 | #788 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 37,461 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 53.1%
- 19,875
- Black, not Hispanic
- 30.0%
- 11,227
- Hispanic or Latino
- 12.3%
- 4,602
- Other, not Hispanic
- 3.5%
- 1,300
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.2%
- 457
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 34.2%
- 4,836 of 14,149 households
- Below the poverty level
- 21.5%
- 7,663 of the 35,687 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 3.2%
- 517 of a labor force of 16,318
- High school or higher
- 86.9%
- of 24,621 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 20.9%
- of 24,621 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 10.6%
- 3,696 people aged 5 and over, 1,227 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 5.4%
- 2,019 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 59.7%
- 8,449 owned, 5,700 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $44,569 (Tifton 31794) to $79,018 (Tifton 31793)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 35.8 yrs (Tifton 31793) to 37.7 yrs (Tifton 31794)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $111,900 (Tifton 31794) to $189,600 (Tifton 31793)
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
- 4,602
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +758
- +19.7%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 12.3%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 1
- Tifton-Hispanic
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Tifton 3179361
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 60.4
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
- 343
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 107
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico1,377
- Vietnam124
- Canada72
- India66
- Philippines52
- Honduras48
- United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)46
- Indonesia35
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
5 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 Tifton
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagles Wings Judah Worship Center Inc | Tifton 31794 | Reather Gail Campbell | (229) 382-2273 | |
| Tift Avenue Church of God | Tifton 31794 | Kevin Morris Dawson | (229) 382-4707 | |
| Tifton-Carpenter Rd | Tifton 31793 | Clayton T Dowd | Website · (229) 382-4880 | |
| Tifton-Hispanic | Tifton 31794 | Elias Tello | ||
| Union Grove | Tifton 31794 | Arnold Todd Garner | Website · (229) 388-1010 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Tifton is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Tifton — 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.