New Bethlehem Church

The community around New Bethlehem 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 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 46.5% (27.8–65.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.6–45.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
• Obesity: 44.0%
• Depression: 30.1%
• Diabetes: 16.8%
• Unemployment: 9.9% (2.6–17.5%)

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

Churches near New Bethlehem Church

• Clayhole Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Bethlehem Church — 0.9 mi away
• Faith Church — 1.3 mi away
• Philadelphia Church — 2.1 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 3.4 mi away
• Buckhorn Church — 3.9 mi away
• Little Jerusalem Church — 4.2 mi away in Jackson, KY
• Neace Memorial Church — 4.2 mi away in Lost Creek, KY
• Clemons Church — 4.4 mi away in Jackson, KY
• Neace Memorial Church — 4.6 mi away