Buchanan Chapel

The community around Buchanan Chapel

It takes 3.5 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.3%
• Child Poverty: 36.3% (17.1–55.5%)
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Depression: 30.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.0% (10.0–34.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Buchanan Chapel

• Bellomy Chapel — 1.3 mi away
• Community Chapel — 1.8 mi away
• Smith Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Mayo Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Louisa, KY
• Shiloh Church — 2.5 mi away
• Hodge Memorial Church — 2.6 mi away
• Tyrie Church — 2.7 mi away
• Kavanaugh Chapel Church — 2.9 mi away
• Burnaugh Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Newcomb Chapel — 4 mi away in Louisa, KY