Ranked #151 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Hamilton County · Chattanooga 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 Signal Mountain 37377 at 67, ranked #256 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Signal Mountain scores 67
+1,128 in five years, +1,382 forecast
16,819 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.3 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
- Signal Mountain 3737767#256
- Weakest ZIP area
- Signal Mountain 3737767
- 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.
Hamilton County: 59.1% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 673 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Signal Mountain
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Mountain 37377 | 16,819 | +1,128 | +1,382 | 24 | 2.3 mi | 370 | 67 | #256 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 16,819 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 92.4%
- 15,544
- Other, not Hispanic
- 4.3%
- 727
- Hispanic or Latino
- 1.3%
- 221
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 1.2%
- 198
- Black, not Hispanic
- 0.8%
- 129
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 35.5%
- 2,219 of 6,259 households
- Below the poverty level
- 4.4%
- 735 of the 16,719 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 1.9%
- 133 of a labor force of 7,025
- High school or higher
- 95.1%
- of 11,703 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 59.8%
- of 11,703 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 1.1%
- 181 people aged 5 and over, 44 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 1.6%
- 269 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 86.0%
- 5,382 owned, 877 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $115,959
- Median age by ZIP area
- 43.7 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $483,800
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
- 221
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- -45
- -16.9%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 1.3%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Signal Mountain 373778
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 7.5
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
- 356
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 13
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
- Canada52
- India39
- South Africa21
- Peru21
- Pakistan17
- Lithuania16
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan14
- Australia14
New homes
- Hamilton County · 6,060 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments
1-unit ×4593 · 2–4 ×516 · 5+ ×951
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.
No church here is on a falling attendance trend.
Church of God churches in Signal Mountain
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Signal Mountain is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Signal Mountain — 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.