Blue Ridge Church

The community around Blue Ridge Church

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (10.9–19.9%)
• Obesity: 37.1%
• Social Isolation: 30.6%
• Child Poverty: 26.7% (10.7–43.0%)
• Depression: 25.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 17.3% (10.6–24.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.5%

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

Churches near Blue Ridge Church

• Mount Sainai Church — 1 mi away
• Little Pine Church of the Brethren — 1.5 mi away
• Glade Creek Church — 2.1 mi away in Sparta, NC
• Saddle Mountain Union Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Mountain View Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Crab Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Laura Glenn Church — 3.8 mi away in Sparta, NC
• Mountain Top Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Glade Valley, NC
• New Covenant Church — 3.9 mi away in Ennice, NC
• Glade Valley Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away