Browns Creek Church

The community around Browns Creek Church

It takes 8.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Obesity: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Depression: 29.7%
• Unemployment: 10.6% (1.4–19.9%)
• Child Poverty: 27.5% (9.7–45.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.5% (13.3–29.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Browns Creek Church

• First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Huntersville Presbyterian Church — 2.3 mi away
• Huntersville United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Huntersville, West Virginia — 2.5 mi away in Huntersville, WV
• Mount Carmel Church — 2.8 mi away
• Westminster Presbyterian Church — 3 mi away
• Fairview Church — 4.9 mi away
• Central Union Church — 5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 5.1 mi away
• Saint John Neumann Catholic Church — 5.2 mi away in Marlinton, WV