Straight Creek Church

The community around Straight Creek Church

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 here carry depression. 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: 44.4%
• Child Poverty: 31.0% (18.3–43.7%)
• Depression: 30.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
• Poverty Rate: 28.0% (20.0–35.9%)
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Unemployment: 10.0% (3.8–16.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Straight Creek Church

• Harlan Church of the Nazarene — 2.5 mi away in Baxter, KY
• Bledsoe Church — 2.6 mi away
• Harlan Seventh Day Adventist Church — 2.6 mi away in Baxter, KY
• First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Loyall, KY
• Church of God — 2.7 mi away in Loyall, KY
• Calvery Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Loyall, KY
• Loyall United Methodist — 2.8 mi away in Loyall, KY
• Loyall Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away in Loyall, KY
• Riverside Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Wallins Creek, KY
• First Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Harlan, KY