Bear Branch Church

The community around Bear Branch Church

It takes 5.2 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third 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.

• Obesity: 47.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
• Depression: 32.8%
• Diabetes: 19.5%
• Unemployment: 12.7% (0.6–25.2%)
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.6–32.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%

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

Churches near Bear Branch Church

• New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Spurlockville, WV
• New Bethel Church — 1.5 mi away
• Whitten Church — 2.2 mi away
• Berry Branch Church — 2.5 mi away
• Left Fork Church — 2.8 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.3 mi away
• Palermo Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Sand Fork Church — 5.6 mi away
• Sycamore Grove Church — 5.8 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away