Buffalo Church

The community around Buffalo Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 45.9%
• Child Poverty: 40.8% (23.2–58.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
• Poverty Rate: 30.3% (19.1–41.5%)
• Unemployment: 26.2% (13.4–39.1%)
• Diabetes: 19.1%
• Depression: 30.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Buffalo Church

• Emanuel Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Emmanuel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Burning Springs United Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Prater United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Freewill Church — 3.4 mi away
• Salyersville First Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Luke Catholic Church — 4.4 mi away
• Rockhouse Church — 4.6 mi away
• Great Creek Church — 4.6 mi away
• Litteral Fork United Baptist Church — 5 mi away