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Bells, Tennessee

36Low priority

Ranked #572 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Crockett County · Jackson 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 Bells 38006 at 36, ranked #772 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
5,375
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+374
+7.5%
Forecast, next 5 years
-175
-3.3% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Bells scores 36

Growth — are people moving here?28 · weight 86%

+374 in five years, -175 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?85 · weight 14%

5,375 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 4.0 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
Bells 3800636#772
Weakest ZIP area
Bells 3800636
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)
1 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)
88

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

Crockett County: 67.9% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 63 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Bells

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Bells 380065,375+374-17534.0 mi8836#772—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 5,375 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
71.9%
3,862
Hispanic or Latino
12.7%
683
Black, not Hispanic
11.9%
641
Other, not Hispanic
3.4%
184
Asian, not Hispanic
0.1%
5

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
40.4%
813 of 2,011 households
Below the poverty level
14.0%
734 of the 5,257 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
4.4%
112 of a labor force of 2,569
High school or higher
86.8%
of 3,507 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
16.8%
of 3,507 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
9.4%
473 people aged 5 and over, 175 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
5.3%
284 residents
Owner-occupied homes
67.6%
1,360 owned, 651 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$61,250
Median age by ZIP area
36.8 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$161,300

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
683
Change, 2018 to 2023
+6
+0.9%
Share of everyone who lives here
12.7%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Bells 3800624
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
24.4

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
111
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Honduras159
  • Mexico113
All arrivals →

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

0 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.

No church here is on a falling attendance trend.

Church of God churches in Bells

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
No Church of God church is filed in any ZIP area of Bells.

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