Sandy Ridge Church

The community around Sandy Ridge Church

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 46.9%
• Child Poverty: 45.0% (29.3–60.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
• Food Insecurity: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 20.6%
• Social Isolation: 36.9%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.9–32.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (3.8–14.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sandy Ridge Church

• Beautiful Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
• Mount Nebo Church — 1 mi away
• Flatwood Church — 3.3 mi away
• Antioch Church — 4 mi away
• Hillside Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Magnolia Church — 4.3 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 4.6 mi away
• White Cloud Church — 4.7 mi away
• Little Sandy Ridge Presbyterian Church — 4.9 mi away
• Guys Village Church — 5 mi away