Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna Church

It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Child Poverty: 34.8% (22.2–47.6%)
• Social Isolation: 32.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (14.4–31.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.5%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (3.4–12.6%)
• Obesity: 38.1%
• Depression: 24.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (5.2–20.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Tabernacle Church — 1.6 mi away in Salley, SC
• Chapman Branch Church — 2.5 mi away in Salley, SC
• Harvest of Love Outreach Ministries — 2.6 mi away in Salley, SC
• Friendship Church — 3.4 mi away in Salley, SC
• Spring Branch Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Windsor, SC
• Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Wagener, SC
• Edisto Church — 5.1 mi away in Williston, SC
• Dean Swamp Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• Jerusalem Branch Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Salley, SC
• Sanctified Church — 5.9 mi away in Wagener, SC