River Zion Church

The community around River Zion Church

It takes 3.5 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.2–26.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (0.9–14.7%)

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

Churches near River Zion Church

• Blanch Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Zion Church — 1.7 mi away in Milton, NC
• Welcome Church — 2.2 mi away
• River Bend Church — 2.6 mi away in Milton, NC
• Shiloh Church — 3.5 mi away in Milton, NC
• Bethel Church — 3.7 mi away in Ringgold, VA
• Evangel Assembly of God — 4 mi away in Ringgold, VA
• The Word of Faith Apostolic Church — 4 mi away in Milton, NC
• White Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Ringgold, VA
• River of Life Church — 4.2 mi away in Ringgold, VA