Middle Swamp Church

The community around Middle Swamp Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Unemployment: 12.1% (4.6–19.6%)
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Obesity: 39.0%
• Depression: 24.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
• Food Insecurity: 18.1%

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

Churches near Middle Swamp Church

• New Middle Swamp Church — 0.7 mi away
• Savages Church — 3 mi away
• Abundant Hope Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• New Pine Grove Church — 3.4 mi away
• Sycamore Hill Church — 3.4 mi away in Gatesville, NC
• Union Branch Church — 3.5 mi away
• Beulah Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Sunbury, NC
• Damascus Christian Church — 4.1 mi away in Sunbury, NC
• Philadelphia United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Sunbury, NC
• Calvary Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Sunbury, NC