Hoy Chapel

The community around Hoy Chapel

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 52.0% (36.7–67.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
• Poverty Rate: 30.6% (19.6–41.5%)
• Diabetes: 20.7%
• Obesity: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Depression: 30.8%
• Food Insecurity: 21.4%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (3.0–14.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (5.1–20.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Hoy Chapel

• Twomile Church — 1.6 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
• Prosperity Church — 2.2 mi away
• Straight Creek Church — 2.6 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away
• Fairview Church — 3.1 mi away
• Brooksville Church — 3.5 mi away
• Bethel Chapel — 3.7 mi away
• Brooksville Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Big Bend, WV
• Bell United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Elizabeth, WV