Big Lick Church

The community around Big Lick Church

It takes 3.3 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: 47.6% (30.1–65.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
• Poverty Rate: 33.0% (22.6–43.5%)
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Obesity: 44.3%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (0.8–13.5%)

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

Churches near Big Lick Church

• Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
• Ivyton Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Salyers Church — 2 mi away in Prestonsburg, KY
• Bradley Freewill Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Long Fork Church — 3 mi away in Paintsville, KY
• Chestnut Grove Church — 3.2 mi away in Prestonsburg, KY
• Gun Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
• Conley International Pentecostal Church Of Christ — 3.5 mi away
• Bethel Assembly of God — 3.6 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3.7 mi away in Paintsville, KY