Smiths Grove Church

The community around Smiths Grove Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 38.2%
• Social Isolation: 31.8%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
• Poverty Rate: 17.0% (8.4–25.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.0%
• Diabetes: 14.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (5.6–20.4%)
• Unemployment: 7.3% (2.2–12.5%)

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

Churches near Smiths Grove Church

• Bethel Church — 2.5 mi away in Taylorsville, NC
• Linneys Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pilgrim Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.9 mi away in Moravian Falls, NC
• Faith Revival Church — 3.4 mi away
• Bakers Grove Church — 3.6 mi away in Union Grove, NC
• Rocky Creek Church — 4.1 mi away in Moravian Falls, NC
• Poplar Springs Church — 4.2 mi away in Statesville, NC
• New Hope Church — 4.3 mi away in Moravian Falls, NC