Oak Grove Church

The community around Oak Grove Church

It takes 3.0 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: 36.1% (18.8–53.4%)
• Social Isolation: 32.2%
• Depression: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.1–33.4%)
• Obesity: 38.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
• Food Insecurity: 17.2%
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (2.0–12.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Oak Grove Church

• Polkville United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Polkville, NC
• Elliotts Memorial Church — 1.6 mi away
• Polkville Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Polkville, NC
• Palm Tree Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 2.9 mi away
• Elliott Church — 2.9 mi away in Shelby, NC
• First Baptist of Lawndale Church — 3 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Shelby, NC
• Lawndale Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Kistler United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away