Morgan Branch Chapel

The community around Morgan Branch Chapel

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Depression: 30.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (11.3–33.6%)
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Obesity: 38.4%
• Social Isolation: 30.9%
• Food Insecurity: 15.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.3–17.3%)
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.1–11.8%)

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

Churches near Morgan Branch Chapel

• Upper Shell Creek Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
• Evergreen Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Lower Shell Creek Christian Church — 1.9 mi away
• Grays Chapel — 2 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.1 mi away
• Taylor Chapel — 2.3 mi away in Elk Park, NC
• Elk Park Christian Church — 2.5 mi away in Elk Park, NC
• High Point Church — 2.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Roan Mountain — 2.6 mi away
• High Point Church — 2.7 mi away