Narrow Gauge Church

The community around Narrow Gauge Church

It takes 2.5 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Unemployment: 9.2% (2.9–15.5%)
• Child Poverty: 29.9% (13.5–46.4%)
• Depression: 24.9%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (10.8–26.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (5.2–18.5%)

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

Churches near Narrow Gauge Church

• Greenwood Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
• Piedmont Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Lawsonville Road Church — 1.9 mi away
• New Center Church — 1.9 mi away
• Wolf Island Primitive Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Christian Fellowship Church — 2 mi away
• M&L Memorial Faith Tabernacle — 2.4 mi away
• Grace Covenant Holiness — 2.4 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 2.4 mi away
• Grace Empowerment Ministries — 2.5 mi away