Laurel Valley Church

The community around Laurel Valley 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Depression: 26.6%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (8.6–24.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.7%

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

Churches near Laurel Valley Church

• Bethel Church — 0.6 mi away
• Konnarock Seventh Day Adventist Church — 2.5 mi away in Damascus, VA
• Saint Matthew Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Damascus, VA
• Azen Church — 3.1 mi away in Damascus, VA
• Upper Helton Church — 4.1 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 4.2 mi away in Chilhowie, VA
• Whitetop Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Whitetop, VA
• Parker Chapel — 4.5 mi away in Chilhowie, VA
• Independent Church — 4.6 mi away in Marion, VA
• Macedonia Church — 4.6 mi away in Chilhowie, VA