First Baptist Church of Roan Mountain

The community around First Baptist Church of Roan Mountain

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Depression: 31.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (11.6–34.1%)
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Obesity: 38.5%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (1.5–14.1%)

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

Churches near First Baptist Church of Roan Mountain

• Church of Christ of Roan Mountain — 0.2 mi away
• Roan Mountain Church of God — 0.6 mi away in Roan Mountain, TN
• Lower Shell Creek Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
• Magill Memorial Church — 0.9 mi away
• Sunrise View Church — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Johns Church — 1.9 mi away
• Sugar Hollow Church — 2 mi away
• Evergreen Freewill Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Upper Shell Creek Christian Church — 2.2 mi away
• High Point Church — 2.3 mi away