Paxton Chapel

The community around Paxton Chapel

It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 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 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.

• Social Isolation: 32.2%
• Obesity: 37.1%
• Depression: 24.9%
• Child Poverty: 22.2% (6.0–39.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 14.1%

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

Churches near Paxton Chapel

• Maple Grove Church — 4 mi away
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 4.2 mi away
• Craig Valley Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• New Castle Christian Church — 4.4 mi away
• Chestnut Grove Church — 4.8 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• Salem Church — 5.5 mi away
• Mount Olivet Church — 5.8 mi away in Covington, VA
• Cross Roads Church — 6.6 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 7.3 mi away