The Portland Monthly Mangazine ran and excellent profile of the city’s neighborhoods, including the suburbs. This is excellent material for a church starting to profile their neighborhood. The information included housing costs, school quality, population, crime stats, and more. The published values have been updated and are now online at:https://www.portland-monthly.com/realestategrid.pdf
- Note: These are good starting stats, but a church serious on strategic targeting should get a Percept analysis. Get the churches in your area working together and share the cost of the Percept analysis. You can reach them at:http://www.percept1.com/pacific/start.asp
This will give you much more information for strategic targeting.Warning: This information is important for visioning and planning, but remember that God gets a great chuckle out of doing things HIS way and you can predict that His way will be better.
