Poplar Springs Church

The community around Poplar Springs Church

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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.3%
• Child Poverty: 32.8% (14.2–52.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Depression: 26.4%
• Food Insecurity: 19.8%
• Poverty Rate: 18.2% (9.7–26.8%)

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

Churches near Poplar Springs Church

• Weeping Mary Church — 0.6 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Overcoming Church of Our Lord — 1.6 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Grace Church — 1.6 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Greater Grace Church — 1.7 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Bethany Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• St Paul United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Passion for the Truth Ministry — 2.5 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Ashville First Global Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Ashville, AL
• Ashvile United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Ashville, AL
• First Baptist Church Ashville — 2.7 mi away in Ashville, AL