Upper Tiger Creek Church

The community around Upper Tiger Creek Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Depression: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (11.2–20.8%)
• Unemployment: 10.4% (1.0–19.9%)
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Social Isolation: 30.4%
• Poverty Rate: 18.3% (10.2–26.4%)

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

Churches near Upper Tiger Creek Church

• Nelson Chapel — 1.3 mi away
• Hopson Church — 1.4 mi away
• Sunrise Church — 1.7 mi away
• Morgans Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Tiger Creek Church — 3.1 mi away
• Roans Chapel — 3.5 mi away in Bakersville, NC
• Odom Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Bakersville, NC
• Little Doe River Church — 3.7 mi away
• Sunset Church — 3.7 mi away
• Woodby Hill Freewill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Unicoi, TN