Walnut Branch Church

The community around Walnut Branch Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Obesity: 36.3%
• Social Isolation: 29.6%
• Depression: 25.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.4–30.2%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.6–20.4%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (0.0–15.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Walnut Branch Church

• New Hope Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Laurel Springs, NC
• Mount Carmel Union Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Bellview Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Laurel Springs, NC
• Mt. Zion United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Osborne Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Elk Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Antioch Primitive Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Piney Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Piney Creek United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away