Roaring Gap Church

The community around Roaring Gap Church

It takes 3.4 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Child Poverty: 33.0% (15.7–50.4%)
• Depression: 28.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (11.7–33.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Food Insecurity: 19.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.6–20.1%)
• Unemployment: 7.6% (1.0–14.1%)

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

Churches near Roaring Gap Church

• White Rock Church — 1.3 mi away in Thurmond, NC
• Union Church — 1.5 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Faith Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Sandy Creek Church — 2.9 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Knobs Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Traphill, NC
• State Road Primitive Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in State Road, NC
• Pleasant View Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in State Road, NC
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.3 mi away in State Road, NC
• Elk Spur Church — 3.6 mi away in Roaring Gap, NC
• Mining Ridge Church — 3.7 mi away in State Road, NC