Mount Herman Church

The community around Mount Herman Church

It takes 2.7 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 adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Obesity: 41.9%
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Food Insecurity: 21.4%
• Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.6–27.3%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
• Diabetes: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.3–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

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

Churches near Mount Herman Church

• Mount Hermon Baptist Church Dobson — 0 mi away
• New Hope Church — 1.2 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Mount Pleasant Church — 1.7 mi away
• Little Richmond Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Fairview Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Lighthouse Independent Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Boonville, NC
• Bear Creek Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Stony Knoll Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Divine Redeemer Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away in Boonville, NC