Valley Chapel

The community around Valley Chapel

It takes 7.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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: 50.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Child Poverty: 33.0% (14.3–52.0%)
• Depression: 31.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.3% (17.3–33.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.3%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.4–18.0%)

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

Churches near Valley Chapel

• Tygart Valley Church — 2.8 mi away
• Elkwater Church — 3.2 mi away
• Edwards Chapel — 3.3 mi away
• Mill Creek Presbyterian Church — 3.8 mi away in Mill Creek, WV
• Mill Creek Memorial Union Mission Church — 4 mi away in Mill Creek, WV
• Jerusalem Church — 4.5 mi away
• Pleasant Chapel — 4.9 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 6.1 mi away
• Friendship Church — 6.5 mi away
• Valley Bend Presbyterian Church — 7.1 mi away