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Obion, Tennessee

10Low priority

Ranked #950 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Obion 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 Obion 38240 at 10, ranked #1,211 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
1,760
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-714
-28.9%
Forecast, next 5 years
-398
-22.6% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
1,760 people each

Why Obion scores 10

Growth — are people moving here?0 · weight 86%

-714 in five years, -398 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?74 · weight 14%

1,760 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 4.6 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
Obion 3824010#1,211
Weakest ZIP area
Obion 3824010
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)
82

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

Obion County: 74.6% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 119 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Obion

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Obion 382401,760-714-39834.6 mi8210#1,211—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 1,760 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
88.4%
1,556
Hispanic or Latino
4.1%
72
Other, not Hispanic
4.1%
72
Black, not Hispanic
3.2%
56
Asian, not Hispanic
0.2%
4

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
19.8%
166 of 840 households
Below the poverty level
18.4%
323 of the 1,760 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
1.0%
8 of a labor force of 828
High school or higher
84.0%
of 1,303 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
11.2%
of 1,303 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
3.3%
56 people aged 5 and over, 17 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
2.4%
42 residents
Owner-occupied homes
65.2%
548 owned, 292 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$58,468
Median age by ZIP area
47.2 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$98,900

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
72
Change, 2018 to 2023
+6
+9.1%
Share of everyone who lives here
4.1%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Obion 3824022
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
22.4

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
0
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico21
  • Colombia17
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

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 Obion

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
Obion-New FaithObion 38240Paul Gordon Lowers II(731) 536-6029

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