Ranked #100 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Knox County · Knoxville 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 Powell 37849 at 72, ranked #183 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Powell scores 72
+1,810 in five years, +839 forecast
28,872 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 0.6 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
- Powell 3784972#183
- Weakest ZIP area
- Powell 3784972
- 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
The range across its ZIP centres — any faith, from OpenStreetMap. A sanity check on the gap, not a scoring input.
Knox County: 56.7% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 678 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Powell
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powell 37849 | 28,872 | +1,810 | +839 | 22 | 0.6 mi | 519 | 72 | #183 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 28,872 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 89.3%
- 25,787
- Hispanic or Latino
- 5.6%
- 1,606
- Black, not Hispanic
- 2.5%
- 729
- Other, not Hispanic
- 2.5%
- 728
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.1%
- 22
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 31.1%
- 3,357 of 10,800 households
- Below the poverty level
- 8.2%
- 2,313 of the 28,261 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 3.9%
- 590 of a labor force of 14,971
- High school or higher
- 94.0%
- of 19,505 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 32.3%
- of 19,505 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 4.5%
- 1,215 people aged 5 and over, 517 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 2.8%
- 800 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79.8%
- 8,622 owned, 2,178 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $83,400
- Median age by ZIP area
- 37.6 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $263,600
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
- 1,606
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- +973
- +153.7%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 5.6%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Powell 3784973
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 72.6
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
- 1,061
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 69
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Mexico478
- Iraq61
- Colombia32
- Germany31
- Chile31
- Jordan27
- El Salvador25
- Russia23
New homes
- Knox County · 13,814 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments
1-unit ×7486 · 2–4 ×156 · 5+ ×6172
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 Powell
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redemption Life Church | Powell 37849 | Jerry Michael Cox | (865) 938-2522 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Powell is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Powell — 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.