The Upper Room

The community around The Upper Room

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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.

• Poverty Rate: 41.2% (25.0–57.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
• Food Insecurity: 34.3%
• Diabetes: 21.8%
• Obesity: 43.0%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Depression: 28.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
• Unemployment: 11.0% (2.1–19.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%

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

Churches near The Upper Room

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away
• Church of Christ Mt Mesa — 0.1 mi away
• Kern Calvary Chapel - KCC — 2.4 mi away
• Kern River Valley Christian Church — 2.4 mi away
• Kern River Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Kern Valley Bible Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mountain View Southern Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• First Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• He Cares Fellowship — 3.9 mi away in Weldon, CA
• Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church — 4.3 mi away