Union Cross Friends Church

The community around Union Cross Friends Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 31.8% (14.0–49.7%)
• Obesity: 36.5%
• Social Isolation: 31.5%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 13.3%
• Unemployment: 6.1% (0.5–11.8%)

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

Churches near Union Cross Friends Church

• Union Grove Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Boonville, NC
• Forbush Friends Church — 2 mi away in East Bend, NC
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 2.1 mi away
• Sugartown Church — 2.5 mi away
• Solid Rock Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pilot View Friends Church — 2.6 mi away
• Deep Creek Friends Church — 2.7 mi away
• Patterson Grove African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.8 mi away in East Bend, NC
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Carmel Friends Church — 3.2 mi away in East Bend, NC