Simpson Chapel

The community around Simpson Chapel

It takes 5.3 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.2%
• Depression: 31.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Unemployment: 9.5% (3.0–15.9%)
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Poverty Rate: 21.5% (12.4–30.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

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

Churches near Simpson Chapel

• Union Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
• Vandalia United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away in Horner, WV
• Taylor Chapel — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 3.8 mi away
• Heading Chapel — 3.8 mi away
• Straight Fork Church — 3.9 mi away
• Fair Haven Church — 4.3 mi away
• Point Pleasant Church — 4.9 mi away
• Georgetown Community Church — 5.1 mi away in Weston, WV
• Rock Cave Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away