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Palmer, Tennessee

45Low priority

Ranked #436 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Grundy 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 Palmer 37365 at 45, ranked #577 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
1,729
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+690
+66.4%
Forecast, next 5 years
+255
+14.7% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
1,729 people each

Why Palmer scores 45

Growth — are people moving here?40 · weight 86%

+690 in five years, +255 forecast

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

1,729 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.4 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
Palmer 3736545#577
Weakest ZIP area
Palmer 3736545
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)
45

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

Grundy County: 29.7% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Non-denominational Christian Churches · 43 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Palmer

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Palmer 373651,729+690+25582.4 mi4545#577—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 1,729 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
96.7%
1,672
Other, not Hispanic
3.3%
57

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
28.5%
158 of 554 households
Below the poverty level
19.0%
328 of the 1,729 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
1.5%
9 of a labor force of 581
High school or higher
81.4%
of 1,152 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
9.1%
of 1,152 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
0.0%
0 people aged 5 and over, 0 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
0.0%
0 residents
Owner-occupied homes
92.1%
510 owned, 44 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$50,962
Median age by ZIP area
46.2 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$97,600

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
0
Change, 2018 to 2023
0
Share of everyone who lives here
0.0%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Palmer 373650
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
—

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
13
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

No country-of-birth rows published for its ZIP areas.

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 Palmer

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
PalmerPalmer 37365Andrew Daniel Dixon(931) 779-3527

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