Pleasant Home Church

The community around Pleasant Home 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.5%
• Child Poverty: 34.0% (16.4–51.6%)
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Depression: 28.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.0% (12.9–37.0%)
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Food Insecurity: 19.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pleasant Home Church

• Rachel Baptist Church Fellowship — 1.5 mi away
• Rachael Church — 1.6 mi away
• Oak Level Church — 1.8 mi away
• Stony Ridge Church — 2.1 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Charity Church — 2.5 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Knobs Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Benham Church — 3 mi away in Elkin, NC
• Sandy Creek Church — 3.4 mi away in Traphill, NC
• Poplar Springs Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Billings Hill Church — 3.4 mi away in Traphill, NC