Ballard Church

The community around Ballard Church

It takes 3.7 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: 42.3%
• Child Poverty: 35.1% (19.7–50.7%)
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.0%
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (14.0–28.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (9.3–19.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Ballard Church

• Faith Chapel — 1.6 mi away
• Colony Community Church — 3.6 mi away
• Nicodemus Community Church — 4.8 mi away in Siloam Springs, AR
• Mission Church — 4.8 mi away in Westville, OK
• Stateline Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Faith Alive Church — 4.8 mi away in Watts, OK
• Heritage Missionary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Siloam Springs, AR
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 5 mi away in Siloam Springs, AR
• Bethel Bible Church — 5 mi away
• Bethel United Methodist Church — 5 mi away