Smith Chapel

The community around Smith Chapel

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Child Poverty: 31.8% (18.8–45.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
• Food Insecurity: 22.5%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (14.8–27.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (8.9–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (2.4–11.2%)

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

Churches near Smith Chapel

• Snow Hill Church — 1.3 mi away in McIntyre, GA
• Ivey Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Ivey, GA
• Laurel Branch Church — 2.4 mi away in McIntyre, GA
• Parker Springs Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in McIntyre, GA
• New Hope Christian Fellowship — 3.2 mi away in McIntyre, GA
• Scott's Chapel CME Church — 3.7 mi away
• Peeler Chapel — 3.9 mi away
• Gordon Church of God In Christ — 4 mi away
• Prayer Book Ministry — 4.3 mi away
• Methodist Church First Gordon — 4.5 mi away