Gum Fork Church

The community around Gum Fork Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
• Depression: 32.3%
• Obesity: 42.4%
• Child Poverty: 31.1% (16.2–46.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.5–35.5%)
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.0–15.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gum Fork Church

• Upper Jellico Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Upper Marsh Creek Church — 4.2 mi away
• Abundant Life United Pentecostal Church — 5.1 mi away
• Lower Marsh Creek Church — 5.4 mi away in Pine Knot, KY
• New River Baptist Associates — 5.6 mi away
• Second Bethlehem Church — 5.8 mi away
• Second Bethlehem Church — 5.8 mi away
• Winfield Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 5.8 mi away