Buck Prairie Church

The community around Buck Prairie Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 40.8%
• Child Poverty: 30.5% (11.9–49.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (12.4–31.9%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (11.8–20.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (2.2–16.0%)
• Social Isolation: 31.7%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Food Insecurity: 18.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

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

Churches near Buck Prairie Church

• Union Grove Church — 1.3 mi away in Aurora, MO
• Missouri Chin Evangelical Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Word of Life — 2 mi away
• Talmage Community Church — 2.1 mi away in Aurora, MO
• Country Chapel Free Will Baptist — 2.1 mi away
• Marionville Church of the Nazarene — 2.1 mi away
• the Lighthouse — 2.3 mi away
• Marionville Assembly of God Church — 2.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away