Elkton Christian Church

The community around Elkton Christian Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
• Diabetes: 21.8%
• Obesity: 44.4%
• Food Insecurity: 22.2%
• Unemployment: 9.2% (3.1–16.5%)
• Social Isolation: 30.0%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Child Poverty: 22.4% (5.8–39.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.1–30.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.0–17.6%)

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

Churches near Elkton Christian Church

• Elkton Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Flemington, MO
• Galmey Community Bible Church — 3.6 mi away in Wheatland, MO
• Durnell Chapel — 4.1 mi away
• Bethel Southers Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
• Oak Grove Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Bolivar, MO
• Wheatland Church of the Nazarene — 5.9 mi away in Wheatland, MO
• Christian Church — 5.9 mi away
• Pomme de Terre Southern Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away
• The Gathering Place — 6.8 mi away in Pittsburg, MO
• Church of Jesus Christ — 6.8 mi away