Brown Chapel

The community around Brown Chapel

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

• Child Poverty: 42.1% (28.8–55.5%)
• Obesity: 41.0%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Food Insecurity: 21.5%
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
• Depression: 23.2%
• Poverty Rate: 18.6% (13.4–23.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (9.0–19.1%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.2–11.2%)

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

Churches near Brown Chapel

• Oak Grove Church — 1 mi away
• Greater Victory Apostolic Church — 1.4 mi away
• McCoy Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• Mc Coys Chapel Church — 2.2 mi away
• Hull Road Church — 2.6 mi away
• Branch Grove Church — 2.8 mi away in La Grange, NC
• Wheat Swamp Church — 2.8 mi away in La Grange, NC
• Victory Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Kinston, NC
• Rainbow Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Post Oak Church — 3.1 mi away in Kinston, NC