Ely Memorial Church

The community around Ely Memorial Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 58.5%
• Poverty Rate: 36.3% (22.8–49.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
• Food Insecurity: 26.5%
• Diabetes: 19.5%
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Ely Memorial Church

• Valley View Church — 1.1 mi away
• Willis Chapel — 1.2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• Wells Chapel Church — 1.7 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• First United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• First Baptist Church of Pennington Gap — 2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• Grace Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• Smith Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• Beech Hill Church — 2.2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• Pennington Gap Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
• First Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA