Poplar Church
Poplar Church is a church at 1583 Richmond Highway in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 40 churches in Amherst.
1583 Richmond Highway, Amherst, VA, 24521Find Poplar Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Poplar Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Poplar Church
- Union Hill Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 3.3 mi away
- LeE’ — 3.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 3.5 mi away
- Wesleyan Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away