Elliotts Memorial Church

The community around Elliotts Memorial Church

It takes 2.8 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 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.

• Child Poverty: 37.9% (20.0–55.9%)
• Social Isolation: 32.7%
• Depression: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 22.8% (13.6–32.1%)
• Unemployment: 8.5% (2.3–14.7%)
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Diabetes: 14.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.1–16.7%)

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

Churches near Elliotts Memorial Church

• Palm Tree Church — 1.5 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
• Polkville Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Polkville, NC
• Union Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Shelby, NC
• Saint Pauls Church — 1.9 mi away
• Polkville United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Polkville, NC
• First Baptist of Lawndale Church — 2 mi away
• Lawndale Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Golden Ridge Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Shelby, NC
• Mount Calvary Church — 2.6 mi away in Kingstown, NC