New Diggs Chapel

The community around New Diggs Chapel

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 45.4%
• Poverty Rate: 35.5% (21.4–49.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
• Food Insecurity: 30.9%
• Diabetes: 18.4%
• Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.8–53.4%)
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Depression: 28.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
• Unemployment: 10.9% (1.7–20.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (6.2–18.9%)

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

Churches near New Diggs Chapel

• Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Popular Springs Church — 0.7 mi away
• Ashley Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Southwood Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.9 mi away
• Cordova United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Cordova, NC
• Cordova Church — 1.4 mi away
• Maple Street Church — 1.6 mi away
• Cordova Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Cordova, NC
• Pine Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• First Pentecostal Holiness Church of Rockingham NC — 1.9 mi away