Poplar Grove Baptist Church

Poplar Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Boone, NC 28607. It is one of 63 churches in Boone, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.

Boone, NC, 28607

Poplar Grove Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around Poplar Grove Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 37.1% (27.0–47.2%)
  • Unemployment: 12.5% (6.2–18.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 39.9%
  • Depression: 31.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.0%

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

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