Valley Church

The community around Valley 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Social Isolation: 31.8%
• Depression: 26.7%
• Child Poverty: 24.0% (7.3–40.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.3% (11.8–28.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
• Diabetes: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.0–17.4%)

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

Churches near Valley Church

• Mulberry Primitive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Bessies Chapel Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Poplar Springs Church — 2.4 mi away in State Road, NC
• Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Little Richmond Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Snow Hill Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Dobson, NC
• Union Cross Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3 mi away
• Friendship Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away