Simmons Chapel

The community around Simmons Chapel

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Obesity: 36.6%
• Social Isolation: 31.5%
• Depression: 26.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
• Diabetes: 13.3%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (2.0–13.0%)

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

Churches near Simmons Chapel

• Kings Mountain View Church — 0.8 mi away
• Brown Mountain Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Big Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Francisco Presbyterian Church — 2.9 mi away
• Dan River Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away in Lawsonville, NC
• Rock House Primitive Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Pinnacle, NC
• Chapel — 4 mi away
• Trinity Church — 4.3 mi away
• Piney Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Danbury, NC
• New Beginning Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Pinnacle, NC