Lower Laurel Fork Church

The community around Lower Laurel Fork 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 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Child Poverty: 39.8% (20.7–58.8%)
• Depression: 29.1%
• Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.7–37.0%)
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (0.8–11.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Lower Laurel Fork Church

• Fuson Church — 1.3 mi away
• Tracy Branch Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Sulphur Spring Church — 3.6 mi away in Williamsburg, KY
• Cane Creek Church — 4.2 mi away in Williamsburg, KY
• Poplar Creek Church — 4.2 mi away
• Primroy Church — 4.6 mi away
• Eagan Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Peace Memorial Church — 4.9 mi away
• Valley Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Middlesboro, TN
• Henderson Grove Church — 5.2 mi away in Pineville, KY