Joseph Branch Church

The community around Joseph Branch Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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.

• Unemployment: 12.7% (4.2–21.2%)
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (11.0–22.3%)
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Depression: 26.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
• Food Insecurity: 18.2%

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

Churches near Joseph Branch Church

• Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away in Grimesland, NC
• Chapman Church — 2 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.1 mi away in Grimesland, NC
• Timothy Church — 3.4 mi away in Ayden, NC
• Oak Grove Church — 3.4 mi away
• Lighthouse Mennonite Church — 3.8 mi away in Grifton, NC
• Poplar Hill Church — 4.2 mi away in Ayden, NC
• Lifegate Church — 4.3 mi away in Greenville, NC
• Life Gate Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Greenville, NC
• Saint Peters Church — 4.4 mi away