Straight Fork Church

The community around Straight Fork Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Depression: 30.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Unemployment: 9.0% (3.1–15.0%)
• Obesity: 38.6%
• Poverty Rate: 20.2% (12.0–28.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

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

Churches near Straight Fork Church

• Taylor Chapel — 1.6 mi away
• Fair Haven Church — 2.5 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 2.6 mi away
• Kanawha Chapel Church — 2.7 mi away
• Rock Cave Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Heaston Ridge Church — 2.8 mi away
• McCutcheon Church — 3 mi away
• Heading Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Wilson Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Simpson Chapel — 3.9 mi away