Lake Buffum Church

The community around Lake Buffum Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.6% (14.8–34.4%)
• Obesity: 40.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
• Diabetes: 14.0%

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

Churches near Lake Buffum Church

• Mount Zion Church — 4.6 mi away in Frostproof, FL
• Catholic Church — 5.7 mi away
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Mission — 5.7 mi away
• My Fort Meade First — 6.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away
• Living Faith Christian Center — 6.5 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 6.5 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away
• Peace River Church — 6.7 mi away
• Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Renacer — 6.7 mi away