Porter Swamp Church

The community around Porter Swamp Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 42.2%
• Child Poverty: 35.8% (17.7–53.8%)
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (15.5–32.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Depression: 24.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (9.3–19.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Porter Swamp Church

• Faith Lighthouse Apostolic Holiness Church — 1.2 mi away
• Cerro Gordo United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Cerro Gordo Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• Hinson's Cross Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Fair Bluff, NC
• Mount Moriah Church — 3.3 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Mt Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Macedonia Church — 3.6 mi away in Evergreen, NC
• Cedar Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Cypress Branch Church — 3.9 mi away in Fair Bluff, NC