Smith Ridge Chapel

The community around Smith Ridge Chapel

It takes 2.7 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 about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.2%
• Child Poverty: 34.4% (19.4–49.5%)
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Depression: 30.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 8.6% (4.3–12.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.5% (15.5–27.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Smith Ridge Chapel

• Sistersville Church of Christ — 2 mi away
• First Christian Church — 2.1 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 2.1 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Sistersville First United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 2.3 mi away
• First Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
• St Paul's Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away