Black Swamp Church

The community around Black Swamp 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 42.0%
• Child Poverty: 37.9% (19.6–56.2%)
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Food Insecurity: 20.2%
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Depression: 24.2%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (11.8–30.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Black Swamp Church

• ABE Branch Church — 0.3 mi away
• Bethel Light Church — 1.7 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3.1 mi away in Tar Heel, NC
• Richardson Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Center Road Church — 3.7 mi away
• Zion Hill Church — 3.7 mi away in Lumberton, NC
• Turnaround Church - Tar Heel Rd — 3.8 mi away in Lumberton, NC
• Calvary Church — 3.8 mi away in Lumberton, NC
• Hickory Grove Church — 3.8 mi away
• Singletary United Methodist — 4.1 mi away in Dublin, NC