Laurel Creek Church

The community around Laurel Creek Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Depression: 30.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.5%
• Poverty Rate: 18.8% (11.2–26.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (1.4–12.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Laurel Creek Church

• Laurel Creek Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Sandstone Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Mountain View Church — 1.7 mi away
• Chestnut Mountain Church — 1.8 mi away
• Ramp Holiness Church — 2.5 mi away
• Brooks Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Saint Colmans Roman Catholic Church — 3.1 mi away
• Ramp Church — 3.2 mi away
• Shockley Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
• Lick Creek Church — 4.2 mi away