Beech Spring Church

The community around Beech Spring Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 64.2% (45.9–78.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 38.8% (25.2–52.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Depression: 31.5%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (0.8–14.0%)

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

Churches near Beech Spring Church

• Scalf Chapel Church — 0.1 mi away in Hinkle, KY
• Grove Church — 1.4 mi away
• Beech Springs Church — 1.7 mi away
• Friendship Church — 1.8 mi away
• Dripping Spring Church — 2.2 mi away
• Sinking Valley Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Trace Branch United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• North Main Community Church — 2.6 mi away in Heidrick, KY
• Locust Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
• Scalf Chapel Church — 2.8 mi away in Barbourville, KY