Ranked #396 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Blount 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 Townsend 37882 at 48, ranked #535 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.
Why Townsend scores 48
+110 in five years, +219 forecast
2,800 residents today
Church of God coverage — context, not in the score
1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 1.6 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
- Townsend 3788248#535
- Weakest ZIP area
- Townsend 3788248
- 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.
Blount County: 52.1% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 230 congregations
2020 U.S. Religion Census, county-level, context only.
ZIP areas in Townsend
| ZIP area | People | Last 5 yrs | Next 5 yrs | Churches ≤12 mi | Nearest | Other congregations ≤12 mi | Priority | Rank | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Townsend 37882 | 2,800 | +110 | +219 | 4 | 1.6 mi | 119 | 48 | #535 | — |
Who lives here
Population makeup
The five parts add to the 2,800 people who live in its ZIP areas.
- White, not Hispanic
- 96.9%
- 2,712
- Other, not Hispanic
- 2.6%
- 72
- Hispanic or Latino
- 0.3%
- 7
- Asian, not Hispanic
- 0.2%
- 6
- Black, not Hispanic
- 0.1%
- 3
Age, money, schooling, home and language
- Households with children
- 14.8%
- 199 of 1,345 households
- Below the poverty level
- 10.5%
- 295 of the 2,800 people poverty status is determined for
- Unemployed
- 3.5%
- 31 of a labor force of 890
- High school or higher
- 93.4%
- of 2,408 residents aged 25 and over
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 33.2%
- of 2,408 residents aged 25 and over
- Spanish spoken at home
- 0.1%
- 2 people aged 5 and over, 0 of them speaking English less than “very well”
- Foreign-born
- 0.3%
- 9 residents
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81.3%
- 1,094 owned, 251 rented
- Median household income by ZIP area
- $61,875
- Median age by ZIP area
- 63.3 yrs
- Median home value by ZIP area
- $292,400
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
- Change, 2018 to 2023
- -7
- -50.0%
- Share of everyone who lives here
- 0.3%
- Venezuelan origin
- 0
- Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
- 0
- none
- Strongest Futuros ZIP area
- Townsend 378823
- Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
- 2.9
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
- 95
- Moved in from abroad, past year
- 0
Foreign-born residents by country of birth
No country-of-birth rows published for its ZIP areas.
New homes
- Blount County · 2,330 permitted homes, 2023–25 · 3 developments
1-unit ×2221 · 2–4 ×68 · 5+ ×41
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 Townsend
| Church | City | Pastor | Contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio-Townsend Church of God | Townsend 37882 | Ronald Ray Hepperly | Website · (865) 448-8008 |
What a city is here. The place name the Postal Service gives a ZIP code, so Townsend is every ZIP area whose mailing city is Townsend — 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.