Lower Coalport Church

The community around Lower Coalport Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 46.6% (29.7–62.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 35.8% (21.1–50.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Depression: 30.9%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 10.7% (2.1–19.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Lower Coalport Church

• Myrick Church — 1.3 mi away
• Artemus Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Artemus, KY
• Artemus Christian Church — 2 mi away in Artemus, KY
• Poplar Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in Flat Lick, KY
• Davis Chapel — 2.7 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Brush Creek Church — 2.7 mi away
• Concord Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Flat Lick, KY
• Flatlick Community Church — 3.3 mi away in Flat Lick, KY
• East Jellico Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Pineville, KY
• Parkway Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Barbourville, KY