Elkton Church

The community around Elkton Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.

• Child Poverty: 55.6% (37.3–73.9%)
• Unemployment: 12.2% (4.3–20.2%)
• Obesity: 42.7%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (14.0–35.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Depression: 23.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

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

Churches near Elkton Church

• New Jerusalem Church — 1.9 mi away
• Central Church — 1.9 mi away
• Pierces Chapel — 2 mi away
• Christian Plain Church — 2.1 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Rehoboth Church — 2.9 mi away
• Clarkton Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away
• Clarkton First Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Sandy Plain Church — 3.6 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• White Plains Church — 3.8 mi away in Council, NC