Boatland Church

The community around Boatland Church

It takes 3.9 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 46.3%
• Child Poverty: 46.1% (27.8–64.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Diabetes: 18.8%
• Depression: 31.1%
• Poverty Rate: 29.2% (21.2–37.2%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (7.3–17.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Boatland Church

• West Fentress Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• New Hope United Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Cooper Chapel — 3 mi away
• Poplar Cove Creek Church — 3.2 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Alive in the Spirit — 5.4 mi away
• Crossroads Chapel — 5.5 mi away
• Jamestown Church of Christ — 5.6 mi away
• Jehovah's Witnesses — 5.7 mi away
• Highlands Church of the Cumberlands — 5.7 mi away