Sandy Grove Church

The community around Sandy Grove Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.3% (13.2–29.5%)
• Social Isolation: 33.2%
• Depression: 24.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
• Food Insecurity: 18.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
• Diabetes: 13.1%
• Unemployment: 7.4% (1.9–12.9%)

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

Churches near Sandy Grove Church

• Floods Chapel — 1 mi away
• Elizabeth Church — 2 mi away
• Red Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Bailey, NC
• Redoak Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Bailey, NC
• Samaria Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Middlesex, NC
• Middlesex Church — 3.5 mi away in Middlesex, NC
• MidPoint Church — 3.5 mi away in Middlesex, NC
• White Oak Church — 3.6 mi away in Middlesex, NC
• Rocky Point Church — 3.7 mi away