Philip Run Church

The community around Philip Run 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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 51.8% (36.5–67.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
• Poverty Rate: 33.7% (22.5–44.9%)
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
• Unemployment: 11.1% (3.7–18.6%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (5.1–22.1%)

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

Churches near Philip Run Church

• Victory Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Grantsville, WV
• Enon Church — 1.8 mi away
• Hardman Chapel — 2 mi away
• Apostolic Faith Tabernacle — 2 mi away in Grantsville, WV
• Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Bryner Chapel — 3.9 mi away
• Sycamore Church — 3.9 mi away