Smith Chapel

The community around Smith Chapel

It takes 3.7 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 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.

• Child Poverty: 58.1% (40.2–76.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 28.1%
• Diabetes: 19.6%
• Obesity: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.5–34.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (2.4–12.7%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Smith Chapel

• Pierces Campground Church — 0.8 mi away
• Consuming Fire Global Ministries — 0.8 mi away
• Twilight Church — 2.3 mi away
• Community Center Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Freedom Free Will Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Quankey Church — 3.8 mi away in Roanoke Rapids, NC
• Ebenezer Church — 3.8 mi away in Littleton, NC
• First Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Roanoke Rapids, NC
• Lebanon Church — 4 mi away
• Community Church of Christ — 4 mi away in Roanoke Rapids, NC