Poplar Creek Church

The community around Poplar Creek Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
• Poverty Rate: 30.1% (17.8–42.4%)
• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 43.9%
• Child Poverty: 32.0% (13.1–50.8%)
• Depression: 29.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Poplar Creek Church

• Peace Memorial Church — 0.8 mi away
• Locust Grove Church — 2.4 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Fuson Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mossy Gap Church — 4 mi away in Williamsburg, KY
• Henderson Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Pineville, KY
• Lower Laurel Fork Church — 4.2 mi away
• Hayes Creek Church of God — 4.8 mi away in Williamsburg, KY
• Chenoa Church — 5.2 mi away in Pineville, KY
• New Vine Church — 5.3 mi away in Pineville, KY
• Mulberry Church — 5.5 mi away in Williamsburg, KY