South Fork Church

The community around South Fork Church

It takes 16.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 38.0%
• Social Isolation: 30.6%
• Child Poverty: 29.2% (15.1–43.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (8.4–16.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.