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Shelbyville, Tennessee

76High priority

Ranked #60 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Bedford 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 Shelbyville 37160 at 76, ranked #103 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
36,422
1 growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+2,519
+7.4%
Forecast, next 5 years
+2,374
+6.5% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
18,211 people each

Why Shelbyville scores 76

Growth — are people moving here?72 · weight 86%

+2,519 in five years, +2,374 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?100 · weight 14%

36,422 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.9 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
Shelbyville 3716076#103
Weakest ZIP area
Shelbyville 3716076
Growth ZIP areas
1

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)
105

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

Bedford County: 41.3% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 112 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Shelbyville

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Shelbyville 37160growth corridor36,422+2,519+2,37421.9 mi10576#103—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 36,422 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
66.1%
24,078
Hispanic or Latino
20.9%
7,614
Black, not Hispanic
8.5%
3,079
Other, not Hispanic
3.9%
1,432
Asian, not Hispanic
0.6%
219

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
36.3%
4,866 of 13,415 households
Below the poverty level
16.3%
5,847 of the 35,784 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
4.0%
707 of a labor force of 17,850
High school or higher
83.2%
of 23,858 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
15.6%
of 23,858 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
14.8%
5,026 people aged 5 and over, 1,769 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
9.0%
3,277 residents
Owner-occupied homes
62.5%
8,378 owned, 5,037 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$58,899
Median age by ZIP area
35.7 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$257,700

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
7,614
Change, 2018 to 2023
+2,105
+38.2%
Share of everyone who lives here
20.9%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Shelbyville 3716078
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
77.6

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
809
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico1,889
  • Guatemala910
  • Iraq224
  • China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan69
  • Laos66
  • Bolivia29
  • Canada28
  • Germany24
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

2 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.

1 shrinking, still gathering:

  • Whittaker — -5.9% a year, 19 → 15 worship

Church of God churches in Shelbyville

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
GatewayShelbyville 37160Jason Lee DaughdrillWebsite · (931) 684-2794
WhittakerShelbyville 37160Brandon Christopher Hash(615) 939-1529
shrinking -5.9%/yr

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