Rocky Fork Church

The community around Rocky Fork Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Obesity: 41.9%
• Social Isolation: 33.2%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Unemployment: 8.2% (3.0–13.4%)
• Child Poverty: 25.3% (11.6–39.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (13.2–29.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

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

Churches near Rocky Fork Church

• Grace Fellowship Church — 2.1 mi away in Orlando, WV
• Finster Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Barker Church — 3 mi away
• Edmiston Church — 3.3 mi away
• Little Kanawha Independent Church — 3.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Burnsville — 4 mi away
• Saint Bridgets Church — 4.4 mi away
• Ellis Grove Church — 4.4 mi away
• Beall's Mill Church — 4.5 mi away in Weston, WV
• Clover Fork Church — 5.3 mi away