Beartown Church

The community around Beartown Church

It takes 4.2 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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: 45.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Depression: 30.3%
• Poverty Rate: 27.2% (15.3–39.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
• Child Poverty: 24.0% (7.1–41.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (1.7–11.3%)

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

Churches near Beartown Church

• Bailey Chapel — 0.6 mi away
• Clark Gap Church — 2 mi away
• Covel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Guyandotte Church — 4.1 mi away
• Crane Creek Church — 4.4 mi away
• Spruce Grove Church — 4.7 mi away
• Mount Ebenezer Church — 5.1 mi away in Northfork, WV
• Little Rock Church — 5.2 mi away in Northfork, WV
• Union Church — 5.3 mi away
• Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away