Salyers Church

The community around Salyers Church

It takes 3.1 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 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: 48.9% (31.4–66.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
• Poverty Rate: 30.9% (21.2–40.7%)
• Obesity: 43.2%
• Depression: 31.7%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Unemployment: 8.3% (0.6–16.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Salyers Church

• Chestnut Grove Church — 1.2 mi away
• Pentecostal Church of God — 1.8 mi away in Salyersville, KY
• Big Lick Church — 2 mi away in Salyersville, KY
• Ivyton Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Salyersville, KY
• Long Fork Church — 3.5 mi away in Paintsville, KY
• Abbott United Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4 mi away in Paintsville, KY
• Living Word Chapel — 4.1 mi away in Magoffin County, KY
• Riceville Freewill Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Paintsville, KY
• Gun Creek Church — 4.5 mi away