Ranked #79 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Putnam County · Small-town & rural Tennessee · 4 ZIP areas, 3 scored
The city score is the population-weighted average of its 3 scored ZIP areas on the model’s own weights. Its strongest ZIP area is Cookeville 38501 at 77, ranked #89 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Cookeville scores 73
+4,101 in five years, +5,089 forecast
72,983 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
4 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.5 mi · 0 of 3 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
- Cookeville 3850177#89
- Weakest ZIP area
- Cookeville 3850524
- Growth ZIP areas
- 1
Where the Church of God stands here
ZIP areas with no Church of God church within reach, of the 3 scored.
- Within 3 mi (5 km)
- 2 of 3
- Within 6 mi (10 km)
- 0 of 3
- Within 12 mi (20 km)
- 0 of 3
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Putnam County: 45.5% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 172 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Cookeville
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookeville 38501growth corridor | 42,422 | +4,046 | +3,694 | 6 | 3.5 mi | 195 | 77 | #89 | — |
| Cookeville 38506 | 29,657 | +1,181 | +1,599 | 7 | 2.5 mi | 207 | 70 | #219 | — |
| Cookeville 38505 | 904 | -1,126 | -204 | 6 | 3.3 mi | 198 | 24 | #1,014 | — |
Cookeville 38503 carries no ACS population estimate — drawn on the map, not scored.
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 72,983 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 85.6%
- 62,499
- Hispanic or Latino
- 7.5%
- 5,447
- Other, not Hispanic
- 3.1%
- 2,232
- Black, not Hispanic
- 2.6%
- 1,909
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.2%
- 896
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 27.2%
- 8,112 of 29,823 households
- Below the poverty level
- 17.2%
- 11,970 of the 69,571 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 3.5%
- 1,289 of a labor force of 37,121
- High school or higher
- 89.0%
- of 47,056 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 30.8%
- of 47,056 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 4.0%
- 2,739 people aged 5 and over, 1,041 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 5.3%
- 3,833 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 58.4%
- 17,420 owned, 12,403 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- from $50,923 (Cookeville 38501) to $63,051 (Cookeville 38506)
- Median age by ZIP area
- from 19.2 yrs (Cookeville 38505) to 41.8 yrs (Cookeville 38506)
- Median home value by ZIP area
- from $245,100 (Cookeville 38501) to $256,100 (Cookeville 38506)
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
- 5,447
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +2,079
- +61.7%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 7.5%
- Venezuelan origin
- 202
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Cookeville 3850176
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 74.2
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
- 1,727
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 188
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Guatemala987
- Mexico676
- Venezuela202
- Germany196
- Canada173
- India167
- Vietnam143
- Philippines115
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
4 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.
2 shrinking, still gathering:
- Algood — -2.5% a year, 30 → 24 worship
- Brindleys Chapel — -4.2% a year, 18 → 15 worship
Church of God churches in Cookeville
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algood | Algood 38506 | David Claude Hughes | shrinking -2.5%/yr | |
| Brindleys Chapel | Cookeville 38506 | Michael Stephen Madden | ( ) - | shrinking -4.2%/yr |
| Jehova Jireh | Cookeville 38506 | Mauricio Alfredo Granados | (423) 839-6151 | |
| Praise Cathedral | Cookeville 38506 | Eric J Vickers | (931) 528-8701 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Cookeville is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Cookeville — 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.