Rich Mountain Baptist Church
Rich Mountain Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Howard's Creek Road in Boone, NC 28607. It is one of 63 churches in Boone, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Howard's Creek Road, Boone, NC, 28607Rich Mountain 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 Rich Mountain Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 33.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Food Insecurity: 16.8% (12.7–22.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (8.1–17.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.9–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rich Mountain Baptist Church
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Doe Ridge Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Vanderpool Church — 2 mi away in Vilas, NC
- Grace Highlands Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away in Vilas, NC
- High Country United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away in Vilas, NC
- Meat Camp Church — 2.7 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Proffit Grove Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Grace Christian Church — 3.2 mi away in Vilas, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Doe Ridge Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Proffit Grove Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Brushy Fork Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Vilas, NC
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