Roan Valley Church

The community around Roan Valley Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Depression: 27.6%
• Obesity: 37.8%
• Social Isolation: 30.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
• Poverty Rate: 16.6% (8.8–24.4%)
• Diabetes: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.9–17.1%)
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.8–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Roan Valley Church

• Little Rock Creek Church — 2 mi away
• Roaring Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Newland, NC
• Cloudland Church — 3.3 mi away
• Roaring Creek Freewill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Newland, NC
• Burleson Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Newland, NC
• Faith Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Holson Presbytery Church — 4.1 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church of Roan Mountain — 4.2 mi away
• Burbank Freewill Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Upper Heaton Creek Church — 4.3 mi away