Mount Carmel Church

The community around Mount Carmel Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (10.3–24.3%)
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Depression: 26.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
• Poverty Rate: 20.4% (13.2–27.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.4%
• Diabetes: 14.9%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (0.6–15.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Carmel Church

• Bryson City Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Impact Church — 0.8 mi away
• Jackson Line Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Arlington Church — 1.5 mi away
• Hillside Church — 1.6 mi away
• Cornerstone Wesleyan Church — 1.7 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 1.7 mi away
• Bryson City United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Bryson City Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• Midway Church — 2 mi away