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Smithville, Tennessee

64Elevated priority

Ranked #189 of 1,017 cities across the two states · DeKalb 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 Smithville 37166 at 64, ranked #308 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
15,116
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
+758
+5.3%
Forecast, next 5 years
+2,969
+19.6% · official county projection
Church of God churches
2
7,558 people each

Why Smithville scores 64

Growth — are people moving here?59 · weight 86%

+758 in five years, +2,969 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?95 · weight 14%

15,116 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

2 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.8 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
Smithville 3716664#308
Weakest ZIP area
Smithville 3716664
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)
96

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

DeKalb County: 42.8% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 69 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Smithville

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Smithville 3716615,116+758+2,96931.8 mi9664#308—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 15,116 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
84.4%
12,760
Hispanic or Latino
10.0%
1,510
Other, not Hispanic
3.0%
449
Black, not Hispanic
1.6%
245
Asian, not Hispanic
1.0%
152

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
31.8%
1,977 of 6,220 households
Below the poverty level
22.0%
3,242 of the 14,746 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
4.6%
306 of a labor force of 6,640
High school or higher
81.1%
of 10,719 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
18.2%
of 10,719 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
5.6%
780 people aged 5 and over, 335 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
6.0%
911 residents
Owner-occupied homes
65.6%
4,080 owned, 2,140 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$46,713
Median age by ZIP area
42.5 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$183,600

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
1,510
Change, 2018 to 2023
+30
+2.0%
Share of everyone who lives here
10.0%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Smithville 3716637
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
37.2

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
192
Moved in from abroad, past year
23

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico675
  • Guatemala126
  • Philippines29
  • Thailand29
  • United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies)16
  • Canada15
  • India12
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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.

No church here is on a falling attendance trend.

In North Georgia

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No adopted-plan polygons fall in its ZIP areas.

Church of God churches in Smithville

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
Pentecostes la HermosaSmithville 37166—(931) 259-1434
SmithvilleSmithville 37166Christopher S MooreWebsite · (615) 597-1419

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