Highway Church

The community around Highway 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.0%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (17.6–53.7%)
• Social Isolation: 34.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Depression: 23.9%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (12.9–29.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (9.6–19.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Highway Church

• Evergreen Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Mt Horeb — 1.4 mi away
• Church of Deliverance Outreach Ministries — 1.7 mi away
• Corinth Church — 2.8 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Pine Grove Church — 3.5 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 3.6 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Jerusalem Church — 3.9 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Boardman Church — 4.2 mi away in Boardman, NC
• Horace Grove Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Boardman, NC
• Turnaround Church - BPHC — 4.5 mi away in Boardman, NC