Pleasant Valley Church

The community around Pleasant Valley Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 50.4% (34.9–65.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 20.3%
• Obesity: 41.7%
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Depression: 30.8%
• Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.0–39.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.8%
• Unemployment: 8.9% (2.9–14.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (4.6–19.7%)

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

Churches near Pleasant Valley Church

• Bell United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Elizabeth, WV
• Brooksville Church — 2.4 mi away
• Snyder Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Brooksville Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Big Bend, WV
• Creston United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Hoy Chapel — 4.2 mi away
• Straight Creek Church — 4.3 mi away
• Little Creek Church — 4.4 mi away
• Fairview Church — 4.6 mi away
• Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away