Big Laurel Church

The community around Big Laurel Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 35.6% (20.8–50.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Depression: 29.0%
• Poverty Rate: 26.0% (16.2–35.7%)
• Diabetes: 17.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.5–21.6%)
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Food Insecurity: 16.6%

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

Churches near Big Laurel Church

• Laurel Springs Church — 1.7 mi away in Mountain City, TN
• Big Laurel Church — 1.8 mi away
• Covenant Church — 1.8 mi away
• Roaring Fork Church — 2.1 mi away
• Laurel Hill Church — 2.1 mi away
• Roaring Fork Church — 2.2 mi away
• Big Spring Church — 2.4 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
• Rainbow Mennonite Church — 2.9 mi away in Mountain City, TN
• Little Laurel Church — 3.3 mi away