Cowger Hill Church

The community around Cowger Hill Church

It takes 7.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
• Diabetes: 20.4%
• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Depression: 31.6%
• Poverty Rate: 28.6% (17.9–39.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 11.5% (4.8–18.3%)
• Child Poverty: 24.4% (13.0–35.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Cowger Hill Church

• Panther Lick Church — 1.5 mi away
• Hacker Valley Church — 1.8 mi away
• Independent Baptist Church of Cleveland — 3.1 mi away in Cleveland, WV
• Chestnut Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Long Run Church — 4.5 mi away
• Holly River Church — 6.2 mi away
• Mount Nebo Church — 6.8 mi away
• Goshen Church — 7 mi away
• Sand Lick Church — 7.6 mi away in Webster Springs, WV
• McCoy Church — 7.6 mi away in Webster Springs, WV