Poley Bridge Church

The community around Poley Bridge Church

It takes 4.3 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Child Poverty: 30.7% (12.8–49.2%)
• Depression: 27.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.3% (11.4–33.1%)
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
• Food Insecurity: 17.4%
• Diabetes: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.1–18.3%)

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

Churches near Poley Bridge Church

• Pleasant Meadow Church — 1.4 mi away
• Nakina Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Nakina, NC
• Chadwick Church — 2.2 mi away
• Pleasant Union Church — 3.1 mi away
• Bethel United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Clarendon, NC
• Happy Home Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sweet Home Church — 3.4 mi away
• Campside Church — 3.4 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Nakina Church — 3.7 mi away
• Nakina Pentecostal Holiness Church — 3.7 mi away in Nakina, NC