Population Growth Factors
CHURCH GROWTH
Factoid: ...60 percent of growing churches are located in zip codes where there is a high proportion of new housing, as compared to only 24 percent of plateaued churches... Plateaued and declining churches tend to be located in areas with older housing stock.
Source: ("Church Growth Principles", C. Kirk Hadaway, Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991, p. 179.)