Union Grove Church

The community around Union Grove Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Obesity: 41.5%
• Child Poverty: 34.8% (20.0–49.6%)
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Depression: 25.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.9% (15.5–28.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (9.3–18.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Union Grove Church

• Mount Calvary Church — 1.4 mi away
• Diggs Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• Heart of David Ministries — 1.8 mi away in Eureka, NC
• Yelverton Church — 1.9 mi away in Fremont, NC
• Watery Branch Fwb Church — 1.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Eureka, NC
• Faro Chapel PFWB Church — 2.1 mi away in Fremont, NC
• Mt Nelson Missionary Baptist — 2.1 mi away in Eureka, NC
• Lebanon Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mount Nelson Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Eureka, NC