Byars Church

The community around Byars Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, 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: 42.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Depression: 28.3%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Social Isolation: 31.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (8.6–34.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (8.0–20.3%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Byars Church

• Pea Ridge Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Faith Temple Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Lebanon Church — 1.9 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Rutherfordton, NC
• Beulah Church — 2.8 mi away in Tryon, NC
• Bethlehem United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Big Level Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mill Spring First Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• New Zion CME Church — 3.4 mi away