Norkes Chapel

The community around Norkes Chapel

It takes 5.6 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 41.3% (25.0–57.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 32.4%
• Poverty Rate: 27.6% (19.0–36.3%)
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Depression: 26.1%
• Food Insecurity: 19.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.8–16.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (0.9–11.5%)

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

Churches near Norkes Chapel

• Arbanna Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Signal Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mennonite Church — 4.6 mi away
• Mountain View Church Of God — 4.7 mi away
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 4.7 mi away
• Dugan Church — 5.3 mi away
• Mount Joy Church — 5.4 mi away
• Flatwoods Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
• Cornerstone House Of Prayer — 5.8 mi away
• Case Church — 5.9 mi away