Upper Shell Creek Christian Church

The community around Upper Shell Creek Christian 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 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live 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.

• Depression: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.4–34.1%)
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Obesity: 38.4%
• Social Isolation: 30.9%
• Food Insecurity: 15.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (7.0–16.5%)
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.1–12.5%)

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

Churches near Upper Shell Creek Christian Church

• Morgan Branch Chapel — 0.4 mi away
• Evergreen Freewill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Lower Shell Creek Christian Church — 1.6 mi away
• Grays Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Roan Mountain — 2.2 mi away
• Church of Christ of Roan Mountain — 2.4 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.5 mi away
• High Point Church — 2.5 mi away
• Sugar Hollow Church — 2.6 mi away
• Magill Memorial Church — 2.7 mi away