Upper Essex Church

The community around Upper Essex Church

It takes 5.3 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: 20.2%
• Obesity: 44.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Unemployment: 10.1% (3.8–16.4%)
• Depression: 23.1%
• Child Poverty: 22.7% (5.0–40.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.0–26.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

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

Churches near Upper Essex Church

• Antioch Church — 1.4 mi away
• Hermon Church — 3.2 mi away in Tappahannock, VA
• First Union Church — 3.6 mi away in Tappahannock, VA
• Mount Salem Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.9 mi away
• New Liberty Church — 4.1 mi away
• Rappahannock Indian Church — 4.1 mi away in Tappahannock, VA
• Bethlehem Church — 4.8 mi away
• Zion Church — 5 mi away in Champlain, VA
• First Baptist Church of Loretto — 6.2 mi away in Loretto, VA