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Bristol, Tennessee

37Low priority

Ranked #560 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Sullivan County · Kingsport 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 Bristol 37620 at 37, ranked #757 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
38,330
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-639
-1.6%
Forecast, next 5 years
-208
-0.5% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
38,330 people each

Why Bristol scores 37

Growth — are people moving here?27 · weight 86%

-639 in five years, -208 forecast

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

38,330 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.1 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
Bristol 3762037#757
Weakest ZIP area
Bristol 3762037
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)
119

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

Sullivan County: 62.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Non-denominational Christian Churches · 344 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Bristol

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Bristol 3762038,330-639-20832.1 mi11937#757—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 38,330 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
91.1%
34,918
Other, not Hispanic
3.4%
1,288
Hispanic or Latino
3.2%
1,235
Black, not Hispanic
2.0%
763
Asian, not Hispanic
0.3%
126

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
26.1%
4,294 of 16,466 households
Below the poverty level
12.5%
4,732 of the 37,827 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
7.6%
1,402 of a labor force of 18,358
High school or higher
89.7%
of 28,192 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
26.1%
of 28,192 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
1.7%
622 people aged 5 and over, 249 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
1.5%
590 residents
Owner-occupied homes
71.5%
11,781 owned, 4,685 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$54,908
Median age by ZIP area
44.7 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$175,500

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
1,235
Change, 2018 to 2023
+446
+56.5%
Share of everyone who lives here
3.2%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Bristol 3762066
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
65.6

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
1,938
Moved in from abroad, past year
12

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico191
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)86
  • Germany54
  • Spain31
  • India24
  • Honduras21
  • Iran20
  • Philippines19
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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.

No church here is on a falling attendance trend.

Church of God churches in Bristol

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
Bristol-Grace Point ChurchBristol 37620Todd Tilghman(423) 764-6832

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