Blacks Chapel

The community around Blacks Chapel

It takes 3.5 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 adults say they are socially isolated, 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: 42.0%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Depression: 31.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Diabetes: 17.6%
• Unemployment: 11.2% (3.8–18.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Blacks Chapel

• Saint Marys Church — 1 mi away in Camden-on-Gauley, WV
• Cottle First Church of God — 1.8 mi away in Craigsville, WV
• Half Acre Bethel Church — 2 mi away
• Little Glade Church — 2.5 mi away
• Craigsville Revival Center Pentecostal Church — 3.1 mi away
• Craigsville Church of the Nazarene — 3.1 mi away in Craigsville, WV
• First Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• St Lukes United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Craigsville, WV
• Lighthouse Apostolic Church — 3.2 mi away
• Glade Summit Church — 3.3 mi away