Smith Chapel

The community around Smith Chapel

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 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Unemployment: 10.4% (4.5–16.2%)
• Depression: 23.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (8.7–20.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Smith Chapel

• Lee Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Greater Bolton Cogic — 1 mi away
• Bolton United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Townsend Temple Holiness Church — 1.4 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mt Sinai Holliness Church — 2.4 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 3.3 mi away
• Union Chapel — 4.7 mi away
• New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Riegelwood, NC
• Pleasant Union Church — 5.2 mi away in East Arcadia, NC