Old Roaring River Church

The community around Old Roaring River Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Child Poverty: 32.8% (15.4–50.3%)
• Depression: 27.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Poverty Rate: 18.7% (7.0–30.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.0–17.2%)

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

Churches near Old Roaring River Church

• Double Creek Church — 0.8 mi away in Hays, NC
• Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Garden Creek Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
• Roaring River Church — 3 mi away
• Welcome Home Church — 3.7 mi away in Hays, NC
• Walnut Grove Church — 4 mi away in Hays, NC
• Elk Spur Church — 4.4 mi away in Roaring Gap, NC
• Mount Pisgah Church — 4.4 mi away in Hayes, NC
• Traphill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away