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Waynesboro, Georgia

64Moderate priority

Ranked #195 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Burke County · Augusta 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 Waynesboro 30830 at 64, ranked #312 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
15,073
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+1,245
+9.0%
Forecast, next 5 years
+2,356
+15.6% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
15,073 people each

Why Waynesboro scores 64

Growth — are people moving here?59 · weight 86%

+1,245 in five years, +2,356 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?95 · weight 14%

15,073 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.4 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
Waynesboro 3083064#312
Weakest ZIP area
Waynesboro 3083064
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)
71

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

Burke County: 40.5% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 51 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Waynesboro

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Waynesboro 3083015,073+1,245+2,35611.4 mi7164#312—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 15,073 people who live in its ZIP areas.

Black, not Hispanic
50.4%
7,601
White, not Hispanic
41.8%
6,296
Other, not Hispanic
3.5%
529
Hispanic or Latino
3.4%
520
Asian, not Hispanic
0.8%
127

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
37.2%
1,904 of 5,122 households
Below the poverty level
19.1%
2,845 of the 14,882 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
7.5%
509 of a labor force of 6,773
High school or higher
87.0%
of 8,935 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
18.7%
of 8,935 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
2.3%
321 people aged 5 and over, 115 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
2.0%
306 residents
Owner-occupied homes
65.6%
3,359 owned, 1,763 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$50,956
Median age by ZIP area
35.3 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$145,900

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
520
Change, 2018 to 2023
+86
+19.8%
Share of everyone who lives here
3.4%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Waynesboro 3083046
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
46.4

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
17
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico89
  • Korea61
  • Philippines46
  • Guyana46
  • Germany18
  • Ireland15
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)11
  • India11
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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

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 Waynesboro

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
WaynesboroWaynesboro 30830Matt WigleyWebsite · (706) 554-3229

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