Marks Creek Church

The community around Marks Creek Church

It takes 2.7 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 46.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Food Insecurity: 32.5%
• Diabetes: 19.5%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Poverty Rate: 26.6% (16.4–36.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Unemployment: 11.1% (4.6–17.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
• Depression: 26.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.4–19.1%)

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

Churches near Marks Creek Church

• Boyd Lake Road Church of Christ — 1 mi away
• Bethel Hill Church — 2.6 mi away
• Smiths Grove Church — 2.6 mi away
• Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• St. Mary's Holiness Church - Hamlet, NC - Pastor JF Quick — 3.3 mi away
• Second Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Pemberton Temple Church of God — 3.8 mi away
• Zion Church — 3.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Hamlett — 3.9 mi away