Eckle Church

The community around Eckle Church

It takes 2.9 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 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.5%
• Depression: 28.7%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Poverty Rate: 20.9% (5.2–36.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Eckle Church

• Oakhurst Church — 0.4 mi away
• Greenbrier Valley Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Whatco Church — 1.3 mi away
• Bethesda Church — 2.1 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV
• Wild Meadow Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• First Church of God — 2.8 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV
• White Sulphur Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV
• Creekside Church - WSS, WV — 2.8 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV
• First Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV
• Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in White Sulphur Springs, WV