Black River Church

The community around Black River Church

It takes 4.0 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 more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 58.5% (41.2–75.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 35.2% (22.7–47.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.1%
• Diabetes: 20.9%
• Obesity: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.5–17.4%)

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

Churches near Black River Church

• Family Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
• Jehovah's Witnesses — 1 mi away
• Piney Forest Church — 1.8 mi away
• Bethlehem Church of God — 2.2 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 2.3 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Little Star Church — 2.4 mi away
• Andrews Christian Church Discples of Christ — 2.8 mi away
• Elim United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Weldon Church — 3.6 mi away