Bennetts Fork Church

The community around Bennetts Fork Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

• Poverty Rate: 31.0% (20.9–41.0%)
• Unemployment: 12.4% (1.3–23.7%)
• Obesity: 44.6%
• Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.0–49.1%)
• Depression: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
• Diabetes: 16.5%

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

Churches near Bennetts Fork Church

• Lifechurch Middlesboro — 1.8 mi away
• First Apostolic Middlesboro — 1.8 mi away
• West Cumberland Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Winchester Avenue Church of God - Middlesboro — 2 mi away
• Middlesboro Church of God Mountain Assembly — 2 mi away
• Old Yellow Creek Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Richardson Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Renewed Hope Church Middlesboro — 2.1 mi away
• First Apostolic Church — 2.2 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 2.3 mi away