Piney Knob Church

The community around Piney Knob Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, 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.

• Depression: 27.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Poverty Rate: 25.9% (11.8–40.0%)
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Social Isolation: 31.3%
• Food Insecurity: 19.1%

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

Churches near Piney Knob Church

• Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church — 1.2 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.4 mi away
• Oak Ridge Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pwbc — 2.5 mi away
• Welcome Home Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Union Mills, NC
• Cedar Creek Church — 3.5 mi away in Lake Lure, NC
• Pilgrims Way Badptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Antioch Church — 4 mi away in Lake Lure, NC
• Little White Country Church — 4 mi away
• Mountain Creek Church — 4.1 mi away