New River Church

The community around New River Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Poverty Rate: 22.2% (11.2–33.2%)
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Social Isolation: 30.9%
• Depression: 26.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Food Insecurity: 16.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.7–19.0%)

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

Churches near New River Church

• Grassy Creek Community Church — 1.8 mi away
• Pleasant Home Church — 2.2 mi away
• Healing Springs Church — 3.3 mi away
• Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Crumpler, NC
• Pleasant Valley Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Johns Church — 3.6 mi away
• Chestnut Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• New Home Free Will Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
• Little Helton Church — 3.8 mi away
• Pleasant Branch Church — 3.9 mi away