Alarka Church of God

The community around Alarka Church of God

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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Social Isolation: 29.9%
• Depression: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
• Poverty Rate: 18.5% (11.4–25.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Alarka Church of God

• Deep Gap Church — 0 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 1.6 mi away
• Cochran Church — 3 mi away
• Alarka Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• East Alarka Church — 3.9 mi away
• Liberty Church — 4.3 mi away in Franklin, NC
• Connelly Creek Church — 4.5 mi away in Whittier, NC
• Oak Grove Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Franklin, NC
• Pleasant Hill Church — 5 mi away in Franklin, NC
• Dan Springs Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away