Bickmore Church

The community around Bickmore Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Poverty Rate: 34.1% (20.5–47.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
• Depression: 32.3%
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Child Poverty: 36.4% (18.1–54.7%)
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
• Unemployment: 11.7% (1.8–21.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bickmore Church

• Lickfork Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Bickmore, WV
• Lick Fork Freewill Church — 1.2 mi away
• Fola Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Indore Chapel — 2.3 mi away
• Indore Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Community Church — 3.1 mi away
• Lizemores Church — 3.6 mi away
• Lizemore Church of the Nazarene — 4.7 mi away
• Clay Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Clay, WV
• Laurel Fork Missionary Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away