Swampton Church

The community around Swampton Church

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 54.4% (36.7–72.0%)
• Obesity: 46.1%
• Poverty Rate: 38.6% (27.0–50.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Depression: 30.3%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (1.4–17.7%)

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

Churches near Swampton Church

• Living Word Chapel — 0.6 mi away in Magoffin County, KY
• Little Martha Church — 1.2 mi away
• Gun Creek Church — 2.4 mi away
• Gun Creek — 2.5 mi away
• Licking River Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Montgomery Memorial Church — 4.2 mi away
• Big Lick Church — 4.5 mi away
• Pentecostal Church of God — 4.5 mi away
• Little Rachael United Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• Salyers Church — 4.7 mi away in Prestonsburg, KY