Brush Creek Church

The community around Brush Creek Church

It takes 3.8 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: 15.2%
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Social Isolation: 30.8%
• Depression: 26.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.5–22.9%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (9.4–19.2%)
• Unemployment: 6.0% (1.2–10.9%)

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

Churches near Brush Creek Church

• Hightower Church — 1.1 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Dan Springs Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Maple Springs Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Sawmill Hill Church — 2.7 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Euchella Church — 3.1 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Tellico Church — 3.1 mi away in Franklin, NC
• Nantahala Church — 3.8 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Watia Church — 3.8 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Alarka Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Cochran Church — 4 mi away in Bryson City, NC