Cole Branch Church

The community around Cole Branch Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.

• Poverty Rate: 46.9% (33.2–60.5%)
• Child Poverty: 45.7% (27.6–61.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.9%
• Depression: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 18.6%
• Obesity: 44.8%
• Unemployment: 10.7% (2.2–20.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Cole Branch Church

• Holiness Church — 1.6 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 1.7 mi away
• Salt Gum Church — 2.7 mi away
• Young Grove Church — 3.2 mi away
• Beech Springs Church — 3.3 mi away
• Jeff Creek Church — 3.4 mi away
• Dripping Spring Church — 4 mi away
• Rock Spring Church — 4.2 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Horn Branch Church — 4.6 mi away in Barbourville, KY
• Scalf Chapel Church — 4.6 mi away in Hinkle, KY