Elk Spur Church

The community around Elk Spur Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Child Poverty: 32.5% (15.0–49.9%)
• Depression: 27.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (10.8–31.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (9.2–19.3%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (0.9–13.3%)

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

Churches near Elk Spur Church

• Faith Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Welcome Home Church — 2.1 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Roaring River Church — 2.1 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Traphill Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Antioch Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Union Church — 2.8 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Garden Creek Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Woodruff Primitive Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Roaring Gap Church — 3.6 mi away