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Dowelltown, Tennessee

55Moderate priority

Ranked #311 of 1,017 cities across the two states · DeKalb County · Small-town & rural Tennessee · 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 Dowelltown 37059 at 55, ranked #445 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
1,593
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+455
+40.0%
Forecast, next 5 years
+373
+23.4% · official county projection
Church of God churches
0
none filed in its ZIP areas

Why Dowelltown scores 55

Growth — are people moving here?53 · weight 86%

+455 in five years, +373 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?73 · weight 14%

1,593 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

0 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 3.5 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
Dowelltown 3705955#445
Weakest ZIP area
Dowelltown 3705955
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)
85

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

DeKalb County: 42.8% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 69 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Dowelltown

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Dowelltown 370591,593+455+37353.5 mi8555#445—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 1,593 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
95.0%
1,514
Hispanic or Latino
2.8%
45
Other, not Hispanic
1.4%
22
Black, not Hispanic
0.8%
12

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
29.3%
172 of 588 households
Below the poverty level
32.3%
509 of the 1,578 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
16.0%
121 of a labor force of 755
High school or higher
76.2%
of 1,018 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
20.3%
of 1,018 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
2.6%
37 people aged 5 and over, 37 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
2.6%
41 residents
Owner-occupied homes
68.9%
405 owned, 183 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$55,368
Median age by ZIP area
35.6 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$222,700

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
45
Change, 2018 to 2023
+38
+542.9%
Share of everyone who lives here
2.8%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Dowelltown 3705943
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
42.5

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
0
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Cuba41
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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

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.

In North Georgia

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No adopted-plan polygons fall in its ZIP areas.

Church of God churches in Dowelltown

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

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