Laurel Fork Church

The community around Laurel Fork Church

It takes 4.8 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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third 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.

• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Obesity: 37.6%
• Social Isolation: 31.5%
• Depression: 26.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
• Poverty Rate: 20.2% (10.0–30.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (4.5–17.7%)

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

Churches near Laurel Fork Church

• Meadow Fork Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Meadow Fork Primitive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Union Chapel — 1.9 mi away
• Antioch Church — 2.2 mi away in Millers Creek, NC
• Transou Church — 2.7 mi away
• Laurel Springs Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Peak Creek Church of the Brethren — 2.8 mi away
• Mountain Laurel Moravian Fellowship — 2.9 mi away
• Mountain Valley Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away