Watson Gap Church

The community around Watson Gap Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, 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: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Obesity: 37.8%
• Child Poverty: 26.6% (9.8–43.4%)
• Depression: 26.0%
• Poverty Rate: 19.9% (13.2–26.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.9%

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

Churches near Watson Gap Church

• Macedonia Church — 1 mi away
• Union Church — 1.4 mi away
• McCready United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Buckeye Hollow Free Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.7 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 3.3 mi away
• Main Street Church of Christ — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mountain View Church — 3.4 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 3.7 mi away