Back Swamp Church

The community around Back Swamp Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 50.0%
• Child Poverty: 48.9% (33.1–64.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
• Poverty Rate: 31.7% (23.2–40.1%)
• Diabetes: 21.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
• Unemployment: 11.0% (4.9–17.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
• Depression: 23.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (8.1–16.9%)

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

Churches near Back Swamp Church

• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
• Grace Church — 1.6 mi away in Lumberton, NC
• Harvest Church — 1.9 mi away
• Raynham Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Raynham, NC
• Asbury Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Raynham, NC
• Inner Circle Holiness Church of Deliverance — 2.1 mi away
• Riverside Independent Baptist — 2.2 mi away in Lumberton, NC
• Cornerstone Free Will Church — 2.4 mi away
• Riverside Memorial Church — 2.6 mi away
• Providence Church — 2.6 mi away