Buckhorn Church

The community around Buckhorn Church

It takes 4.5 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Child Poverty: 46.1% (27.4–64.8%)
• Obesity: 42.4%
• Depression: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 27.8% (15.4–40.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (1.5–14.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Buckhorn Church

• Philadelphia Church — 1.8 mi away
• Lewis Fork Church — 2.1 mi away
• Faith Church — 2.6 mi away
• New Life Church — 2.7 mi away
• Riverside Church — 3.3 mi away in Hazard, KY
• Clayhole Church — 3.7 mi away
• Neace Memorial Church — 3.7 mi away in Lost Creek, KY
• New Bethlehem Church — 3.9 mi away
• Neace Memorial Church — 4 mi away
• County Line Community Church — 4.4 mi away in Hazard, KY