Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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: 64.3% (47.9–80.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (11.8–29.1%)
• Obesity: 41.8%
• Depression: 30.9%
• Poverty Rate: 28.5% (19.2–37.8%)
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%

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

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Cold Springs First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Community Freewill Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Red Hill Church — 3.9 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.9 mi away
• Lone Oak Church — 4 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 4.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away
• Summer City Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Pikeville United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
• West End Church of God — 4.5 mi away