Joppa Church

The community around Joppa Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, 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.

• Obesity: 42.9%
• Depression: 29.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Unemployment: 8.7% (3.5–14.0%)
• Child Poverty: 22.2% (6.4–38.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.5–26.5%)
• Diabetes: 14.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Joppa Church

• Silent Grove Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Brownsville, KY
• Liberty Church — 2.9 mi away in Smiths Grove, KY
• Community Church at Cedar Springs — 2.9 mi away in Edmonson County, KY
• Good Spring Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mammoth Cave Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Park City, KY
• Cedar Hill Church — 4.5 mi away in Park City, KY
• Pleasant Run Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Smiths Grove, KY
• Little Hope Church — 4.8 mi away in Park City, KY
• Beaver Dam Church — 5 mi away in Brownsville, KY
• Belle Key United Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Brownsville, KY