Big Laurel Church

The community around Big Laurel Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 45.1%
• Depression: 32.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.6%
• Child Poverty: 26.0% (9.6–42.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (9.9–27.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Big Laurel Church

• Myra Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Little Laurel Church — 2.3 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 2.8 mi away in Hamlin, WV
• Scary Church — 3 mi away in Hamlin, WV
• Palermo Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Union Church — 3.5 mi away
• Middle Creek Church — 3.8 mi away in Hamlin, WV
• Middle Fork Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Hamlin, WV
• Mount Zion Church — 4 mi away