Laurel Fork Church

The community around Laurel Fork Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 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: 31.1%
• Diabetes: 18.8%
• Unemployment: 12.8% (1.5–24.1%)
• Obesity: 42.0%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Child Poverty: 34.8% (16.9–52.7%)
• Depression: 31.6%
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (11.9–32.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

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

Churches near Laurel Fork Church

• Horners Fork Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Blue Knob United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Trinity Missionary Baptist — 1.6 mi away in Maysel, WV
• Risen Lord Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away in Maysel, WV
• Liberty Church — 1.6 mi away
• Maysel Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Ovapa Church — 2.8 mi away
• Burke Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Valley Ridge United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away