Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna Church

It takes 4.8 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 55.3%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 38.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (15.4–30.4%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.8% (12.4–25.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.7–11.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Lebanon Primitive Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Pine Ridge Primitive Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Pinehurst, GA
• Mars Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Pinehurst, GA
• Holly Grove Church — 3.8 mi away in Unadilla, GA
• New Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• Vienna Church of Christ — 4.2 mi away
• Liberty Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Pinehurst, GA
• Vienna Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away
• Friendship Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Pinehurst, GA