Blue Ridge Church

The community around Blue Ridge Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.

• Obesity: 36.1%
• Social Isolation: 30.5%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
• Poverty Rate: 16.6% (9.2–24.0%)
• Diabetes: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.5–17.9%)
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.6–11.9%)

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

Churches near Blue Ridge Church

• Holy Trinity Church — 0.2 mi away in West Jefferson, NC
• Church of the Frescoes — 0.2 mi away in West Jefferson, NC
• Calvary Church — 0.3 mi away
• Glendale Springs Presbyterian — 0.3 mi away in West Jefferson, NC
• Big Ridge Community Church — 2.2 mi away
• Round Knob Church — 2.3 mi away in West Jefferson, NC
• North Beaver Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in West Jefferson, NC
• Ebenezer Church — 3.1 mi away in Laurel Springs, NC
• Roan Creek Church — 3.1 mi away
• Poplar Cove Church — 3.3 mi away in Millers Creek, NC