Long's Chapel Church

The community around Long's Chapel Church

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.

• Child Poverty: 46.3% (28.9–63.7%)
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
• Food Insecurity: 31.5%
• Diabetes: 22.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Poverty Rate: 28.2% (17.1–39.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.2–17.8%)
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.5–11.0%)

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

Churches near Long's Chapel Church

• Cherry Church — 1 mi away
• Long Church — 1.3 mi away
• James Church — 3.4 mi away
• Roanoke Church — 3.8 mi away
• Jones Chapel — 4.2 mi away
• End Street Church — 4.3 mi away
• Jones Chapel Missionary Baptist church — 4.8 mi away in Oak City, NC
• Merritts Chapel — 5 mi away
• St. Mary's Episcopal Church — 5.1 mi away in Speed, NC
• Speed Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Speed, NC