Middle Fork Church

The community around Middle Fork Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 33.0% (16.5–50.6%)
• Social Isolation: 28.7%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Poverty Rate: 19.3% (10.6–28.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Middle Fork Church

• Bat Cave Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Barnwell Church — 1.9 mi away
• The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration — 2.1 mi away
• Bearwallow Church — 2.3 mi away in Gerton, NC
• Bear Wallow Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Gerton, NC
• Bald Mountain Church — 2.5 mi away in Black Mountain, NC
• The Church of the Transfiguration Bat Cave — 2.8 mi away in Elk Park, NC
• Broad River Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Black Mountain, NC
• Laurel Springs Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Fairview, NC
• Saint Peters Church — 4.2 mi away