Straight Fork Church

The community around Straight Fork Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Child Poverty: 41.9% (29.3–54.5%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 38.5%
• Food Insecurity: 29.7%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (15.9–28.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
• Unemployment: 10.9% (5.2–16.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Straight Fork Church

• Big Cove Church — 1 mi away
• Tow String Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Bryson City, NC
• Sequoyah Church — 3.1 mi away
• Cherokee Church of the Nazarene — 3.1 mi away
• Smokemont Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sequoyah Sovereign Grace Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Bigwitch Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Wrights Creek Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 5.1 mi away
• The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away