New Hector Church

The community around New Hector Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 43.3% (24.4–62.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
• Unemployment: 15.5% (4.5–26.6%)
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Depression: 30.2%
• Poverty Rate: 27.5% (16.9–38.1%)
• Diabetes: 17.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Hector Church

• Big Creek Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Big Creek, KY
• Brutus Church — 4 mi away
• New Hope Church — 4.3 mi away
• Couch's Fork Church of God — 5.5 mi away in Bear Branch, KY
• Oneida Community Church — 5.8 mi away in Oneida, KY
• Panco Community Fellowship — 5.8 mi away in Oneida, KY
• New Prospect Church — 6.7 mi away
• Crane Creek Church — 6.9 mi away
• Mission Church — 6.9 mi away in Hyden, KY
• Hopewell Church — 7 mi away