Gum Springs Church

The community around Gum Springs Church

It takes 4.8 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 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: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Depression: 24.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.0–18.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.7–11.1%)

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

Churches near Gum Springs Church

• St. Luke No. 1 Original Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• Church of God of Prophecy — 1.6 mi away in Norman, NC
• Sandy Level Church — 1.8 mi away
• Norman United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Norman, NC
• East Moore Street Church of God of Prophecy — 2.2 mi away in Norman, NC
• Norman Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away in Norman, NC
• St Joseph Bible Church of God — 2.3 mi away
• Norman First Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Norman, NC
• Piney Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Flinty Knoll Church — 2.7 mi away