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Unicoi, Tennessee

12Low priority

Ranked #884 of 1,017 cities across the two states · Unicoi County · Johnson City 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 Unicoi 37692 at 12, ranked #1,143 of 1,274 ZIP areas — a plant goes in a ZIP area, so that is the number to plant on.

Population now
4,784
no growth ZIP area
Growth, last 5 years
-205
-4.1%
Forecast, next 5 years
-89
-1.9% · official county projection
Church of God churches
1
4,784 people each

Why Unicoi scores 12

Growth — are people moving here?0 · weight 86%

-205 in five years, -89 forecast

Viability — enough people to sustain a plant?84 · weight 14%

4,784 residents today

Church of God coverage — context, not in the score

1 Church of God churches filed in its ZIP areas · nearest 2.2 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
Unicoi 3769212#1,143
Weakest ZIP area
Unicoi 3769212
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)
249

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

Unicoi County: 37.5% of residents are adherents of some religious body · largest body Southern Baptist Convention · 44 congregations

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

ZIP areas in Unicoi

ZIP areaPeopleLast 5 yrsNext 5 yrsChurches ≤12 miNearestOther congregations ≤12 miPriorityRankPipeline
Unicoi 376924,784-205-89112.2 mi24912#1,143—

Who lives here

Population makeup

The five parts add to the 4,784 people who live in its ZIP areas.

White, not Hispanic
84.7%
4,053
Hispanic or Latino
9.5%
454
Other, not Hispanic
4.8%
229
Asian, not Hispanic
0.6%
29
Black, not Hispanic
0.4%
19

Age, money, schooling, home and language

Households with children
17.5%
383 of 2,191 households
Below the poverty level
11.8%
562 of the 4,764 people poverty status is determined for
Unemployed
6.2%
136 of a labor force of 2,202
High school or higher
88.2%
of 3,833 residents aged 25 and over
Bachelor’s degree or higher
26.6%
of 3,833 residents aged 25 and over
Spanish spoken at home
6.4%
287 people aged 5 and over, 123 of them speaking English less than “very well”
Foreign-born
4.6%
222 residents
Owner-occupied homes
69.9%
1,531 owned, 660 rented
Median household income by ZIP area
$50,469
Median age by ZIP area
51.5 yrs
Median home value by ZIP area
$199,500

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
454
Change, 2018 to 2023
+249
+121.5%
Share of everyone who lives here
9.5%
Venezuelan origin
0
Spanish-language Church of God churches in its ZIP areas
0
none
Strongest Futuros ZIP area
Unicoi 3769260
Futuros score, weighted by Hispanic residents
60.2

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
63
Moved in from abroad, past year
0

Foreign-born residents by country of birth

  • Mexico211
  • Peru11
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

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 Unicoi

ChurchCityPastorContactNote
UnicoiUnicoi 37692Edward Ulaine BlazerWebsite · (423) 743-6405

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