Poplar Gap Church

The community around Poplar Gap Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live 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.

• Poverty Rate: 37.1% (27.0–47.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Child Poverty: 38.0% (23.2–53.1%)
• Depression: 29.9%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (0.8–14.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Poplar Gap Church

• Corinth Church — 1.6 mi away
• Corinth Church — 1.7 mi away
• New Hope Church — 1.8 mi away
• Fairview Church — 3 mi away
• Jep Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
• Brush Creek Church — 3.7 mi away
• Red Hill Church — 4 mi away
• Climax Church — 4.4 mi away in Mt Vernon, KY
• Wildie Christian Church — 4.9 mi away in Mt Vernon, KY
• Pine Hill Holiness Church — 4.9 mi away in Mt Vernon, KY