Big Laurel Church

The community around Big Laurel Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Depression: 28.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Poverty Rate: 24.9% (15.8–34.0%)
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (8.7–22.1%)
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Child Poverty: 26.4% (14.3–38.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Big Laurel Church

• Roaring Fork Church — 0.4 mi away
• Roaring Fork Church — 0.5 mi away
• Laurel Hill Church — 0.6 mi away
• Little Laurel Church — 1.5 mi away
• Big Laurel Church — 1.7 mi away
• Big Laurel Church — 1.8 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 1.9 mi away
• Baptist Home Church — 2.1 mi away
• Laurel Springs Church — 2.1 mi away in Mountain City, TN
• Rainbow Mennonite Church — 2.9 mi away in Mountain City, TN