Poplar Grove Church

The community around Poplar Grove Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 65.3%
• Poverty Rate: 42.6% (28.5–56.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
• Obesity: 44.2%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 9.7% (2.1–18.9%)

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

Churches near Poplar Grove Church

• Concord Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Flatlick Community Church — 1.5 mi away
• East Jellico Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Pineville, KY
• Hosman Church — 2.3 mi away in Pineville, KY
• Lower Coalport Church — 2.3 mi away
• Brush Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
• Artemus Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Artemus, KY
• Turkey Creek Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Myrick Church — 3.6 mi away
• Artemus Christian Church — 3.7 mi away in Artemus, KY