Iron Post Church

The community around Iron Post 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, 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.

• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 32.6%
• Child Poverty: 30.7% (15.9–45.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
• Depression: 25.0%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (11.8–24.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

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

Churches near Iron Post Church

• Maner Church — 0.5 mi away
• Markham Ferry Church — 3.1 mi away
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 3.4 mi away
• Locust Grove Free Will Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Eastside Church of Christ — 3.5 mi away
• First United Methodist Church of Locust Grove — 3.7 mi away
• Lighthouse Assembly of God — 3.7 mi away
• Eastside Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away
• Ballou Church — 3.7 mi away
• Snake Creek Church — 3.7 mi away