Five Forks Church
Five Forks Church is a Baptist church in Fairmont, NC 28340. It is one of 32 churches in Fairmont, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fairmont, NC, 28340Five Forks Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Five Forks Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.1%
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (9.5–16.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (3.7–9.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Five Forks Church
- Page Chapel Holiness Church — 1.1 mi away
- Piney Grove Indian Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mill Branch Church — 1.6 mi away
- Oakdale Church of God — 2.4 mi away in Robeson County, NC
- Baltimore Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.8 mi away in Lake View, SC
- St Paul AME Church — 3.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 3.2 mi away
- Mill Branch Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Oakdale Church — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mill Branch Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Fairmont First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Lake View, SC
- Fairpoint Free Will Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
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